Our very bureaucratic, Canada's most A heavy health care system, he says the answer is more bureaucracy and more central planning. Still, some so-called experts are advocating it as a solution to the summer shortage, which closed several emergency rooms.
That's probably the worst idea anyone could have.
Consider whether this staffing shortage is really as unprecedented as it is claimed to be. The real answer is both yes and no.
I can speak to anyone who works in a hospital and they will tell you that they are always on staff crutches at this time of year. This year, that crisis created by bad central planning by highly paid medical bureaucrats who don't seem to realize it's a bad idea for everyone to take summer vacation at the same time has been compounded by COVID-19 and outdated rules about work. getting worse.
For example, in Ontario a nurse who tests positive is allowed to go out for 10 days. If you have been exposed to a close contact, like a family member with Covid, you can go out for an additional 5 days even if you test negative. These rules were designed in the early days, without easily transmitted variants and widespread vaccination, and no longer make sense.
It is time to fix or shelve them in order to make the health care system work.
But the president of the Canadian Medical Association says the real answer is the federal bureaucracy that tracks the level of medical staff across the country. Dr. Catherine Smart told The Globe and Mail
If central planning fails, just add central planning.
This Where information is actually needed, an inefficient but extensive Health Canada bureaucracy and the Canadian Health Information Institute already exist.
Most Canadians are separatist blocs. Not a fan of Quebec, former party leader Gilles Duceppe always makes a good point when asked why Health Canada has more than 10,000 employees and why they don't run a government agency.
What is that employee doing?
What about the Canadian Institute of Health Information? CIHI was established in 1994 to provide "important information about Canada's health care system".
It doesn't look like they do.
On the other hand,Liberal MP Marcus Pawlowski proposed that the federal government license state physicians, especially internationally trained physicians. Yes. This is the same federal government that currently allows a four-year processing time for skilled traders looking to immigrate to Canada.
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It's also the same government that can't issue passports or expedite passengers through customs. Giving them any more power over our health care system is a bad idea.
, you can get more highly paid administrators, but you can't get an extra hour of treatment.
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Consider this if you want to see how it works.
Toronto General Hospital, part of UHN, Canada's largest hospital network, was recently in the news as his ICU was at capacity due to a staffing shortage. UHN CEO Kevin Smith received $845,092 last year and has a number of highly paid executives under him.
No one understands that following the normal summer holiday schedule, which causes staffing shortages each year, while dealing with highly contagious variants and his restrictive COVID rules will lead to this chaos. I could not do it.
As Anthony Furey recently wrote,some of these executives should be fired for mismanagement. No more medical bureaucracy needed. Management of the current system needs to be improved.
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