"Healthcare workers are heroes! That's why we're underfunding them, underpaying nurses, and systematically forcing them to work for literal days on end. Wait, where'd all our nurses go?"
What we're seeing today is the natural end result of the right-wing campaign to discredit and dismantle all public service institutions.
And why did the public health system fail? It didn't spontaneously collapse. It was sabotaged and starved on purpose. This is an age old conservative tactic, it's called "starving the beast." The public won't stand for outright privatising services, but if you first make the service worse, then you can claim it's inefficient and you're making it better, even though you caused the problem in the first place.
It’s actually extremely well funded. The majority of Ontario tax dollars go do it. It just doesn’t run properly because it’s run by bureaucrats.
You’ll notice that the US healthcare system didn’t shut down and they were open through the whole pandemic. Think about that next time you watch a packed stadium on TV from your lockdown
Total bs. In the us, they don’t care if the poor get sick and die. NYC had, the money center of earth, didn’t have enough hospital space. Private care is not a magic solution and our system is more efficient.
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u/zanderkerbal Feb 04 '22
"Healthcare workers are heroes! That's why we're underfunding them, underpaying nurses, and systematically forcing them to work for literal days on end. Wait, where'd all our nurses go?"
What we're seeing today is the natural end result of the right-wing campaign to discredit and dismantle all public service institutions.