No, we aren’t headed toward U.S.-style private health care
It would be nice, as Canada heaves its way through another debate about the provision of health care by for-profit companies, if politicians were more honest about what is being proposed. We’re looking at you, Jagmeet Singh.that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is failing to stand up to premiers who are trying to bring “U.S.-style for-profit health care to Canada.”
If that ever came to fruition, it would mean that instead of handing, numb-lipped, our credit cards to the receptionist on the way out the door and then hoping to get a portion of the three-figure sum back through private insurance, we would flash our health cards and walk away unscathed. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says the average gross payment to physicians in 2020 was $354,000, with 20 to 30 per cent going to cover costs. The excess, a form of profit, served as the doctors’Those doctors can presumably find efficiencies that will increase the revenue they pocket. They can form a group with other doctors to create economies of scale, or move to a smaller office with lower rent.
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