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Originally Posted by Dean2

There is great truth to this. I have never been operated on or in a hospital before this, so I was definitely apprehensive. My concern is for the thousands on waiting list for even life saving procedures. As we get older, even if we take great care od ourselves, we need more from health care. Alberta alone is spending 28 billion a year, and Canada wide we spend 370 billion, or 8,600 for every man women and child. This does not count the billions spent on private care every year.

Despite the huge spend, in so many cases the health care is attrocious and Canada ranks 10th out of the 11 richest countries. Norway, Netherlands and Australia are the top three, are all public health jurisdictions, and they also spend about 9000 per capita, but for MUCH superior results. .

There are just too many things needed to sort out in the health care system the money is not spend on where it needed and throwing more money at it will not fix it , it will get worse as the population gets bigger.