On CTVNews.ca and YouTube: Health journalist Avis Favaro joins our Trend Line podcast, for an in-depth episode dedicated to the growing crises facing the Canadian health-care system.
, died after lengthy emergency room waits. In this episode of Trend Line, Nik and I want to do a deep dive on one issue, health care. And to do that, we're joined by health reporter and CTV News contributor Avis Favaro. Welcome, Avis.Avis, I know you've you've got some stories to tell. Having reported on on the strain that our health care system is under.I want to just position it that I'm a huge fan of Canadian health care.
But 22 hours with rural emergencies closing where they have no doctors and walk-in clinics, it's just too much. And so you have people who have been in lockdown and everything who are now anxious about health care. And that's, I think, Nik, what's being reflected in your poll. People are worried: 'Maybe it's not there for me when I need it.'At the same time, they don't know what the solution is, right? They know it's complicated.
So, you know, I think that the first step in kind of dealing with this crisis is talking about how many beds do we need, how many nurses, how many frontline health care workers are actually needed for the public health care system to deliver what it needs to deliver? And we've never talked about that. It's like they start going to other options as opposed to focusing on the people in the system.
And the last thing is that during COVID, I realized that the provinces are all doing different things. So, for example, in seven provinces, they went, 'We're not going to deal with vaccine mandates. We need them on duty.' And yet you have B.C., Ontario, Nova Scotia, saying 'oh, no, we don't want previously unvaccinated nurses, even if they've had COVID -- health care workers.' What, is the science different in B.C.
So I've been hearing people saying, 'okay, if provinces get more money, it's the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over again, expecting a different outcome,' and that we have to look at a bigger structural issue with many people and some doctors. I do want to say, just on the private health care system, I think that most Canadians don't realize we already have a lot of private health care. Every GP across Canada is a private corporation. A lot of the hospitals are private, not for profit corporations. Then there's the famed Shoudice clinic, which is grandfathered in and part of that is that they just do hernias, and high volume places have the best outcomes. So when you hear private care, it's a bit of a trigger word.
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