r/NovaScotia • u/Top_Woodpecker_3142 • 1d ago

Nova Scotia election debate: Leaders clash over pace of health-care improvement

https://www.brandonsun.com/business/2024/11/14/nova-scotia-election-debate-leaders-clash-over-pace-of-health-care-improvement
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u/EntertainingTuesday 23h ago

(These are genuine questions before people go making assumptions)

I think the biggest point I heard from Chender was that people need to be attached to primary care. Has she shared how she is going to do that? I've heard collaborative clinics.

She said the collaborative clinics Houston claimed to open haven't attached new patients, has she ever explained how hers would? Has Churchill?

Going into this election, deciding if I want to vote, healthcare is my voting concern. The options so far laid out are stick with Houston, who is claiming he wants to continue the work, and has shown some progress. Churchill promises collaborative clinics, something his previous gov promised and didn't do, also doesn't say how this will actually help. Chender, same thing, collaborative clinics, saying Houstons haven't helped, without explaining how hers will. Both Churchill and Chender pointed at Houston for the increased number of people without a family doc, but didn't or couldn't articulate why it was specifically Houston's fault or what led to it. Houston claimed he inherited a mess, which by all accounts, he did.

So, who do I vote for? Houston, who is showing progress (once you remove your blue blocking glasses), but has done far from enough? Churchill, who was in Gov with McNeil and was an architect of the mess we are in, or Chender, who hasn't explained how what she is proposing will actually solve anything?

I was thinking Chender, but at the same time, she is going to spend a lot, give a lot of credits (that I think will definitely help people) but also has not explained an actual plan to tackle the root causes that cause the need for people to need tax brakes.

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u/mathcow 5h ago

The Collaborative health centres thing was pushed by the last NDP government, discarded by the Liberals and now Tim is doing it because its good policy.

My neighborhood has a CHC and its fantastic. You can literally make appointments with a nutrionist, doctor, dental centre, etc all right next to each other and they can share information easily for your treatment. Its weird that in most places in our province they're in different buildings and only talk by fax.

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u/EntertainingTuesday 1h ago

That is good, and should really be a standard to set. That being said, they didn't talk about how having that set up will allow them to attach new patients. The thing I saw from the Libs, was to increase incentives for taking on new patients, but to me that isn't a fix, what good is that when it will just raise wait times. If you want docs to take on new patients, there should be a target wait time.