About 20% of Quebecers do not have a family doctor. Almost 11,000 people are waiting over a year for medically necessary surgeries (including cancer surgeries) and the backlog of elective surgeries is 161,000 which will take years, if not decades to clear. Emergency rooms are as crowded as ever. Ambulances take too long to arrive and the list goes on.
Health care in Canada was ranked 10th of 11 comparable wealthy countries by the Commonwealth Fund in their most recent report. They were ahead of only the US and that was primarily because the US does not have universal health care.
Last week 23 officially bilingual municipalities across Quebec, led by Cote Saint-Luc, launched a lawsuit challenging several aspects of Bill 96 that affect municipalities.
So the Federal government will give more of our tax dollars to the provinces for health care but not as much as the provinces wanted. What else is new? This has been happening at regular intervals for the last several decades and the result has been a steady erosion of health care in Canada.
Cochlear Implant surgery finally comes to Montreal “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” –Hellen Keller While I was never totally deaf,
Canada has fewer hospital beds, doctors, and nurses per capita than virtually all western European countries. People are dying or suffering needlessly because they don’t
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