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I hate how these articles always dance around the main issue. Yes, team-based care is great. But what we really need is to urgently train thousands of family doctors and nurse practitioners. We have a massive shortage and it's only getting worse. But nobody wants to pay for it, and even lefty outlets like The Walrus aren't calling for urgent funding. I dread what this is going to look like in ten years.
This is purely speculation on my part, but I think the Canadian Medical Association, the group which represents Canadian physicians, is interested in maintaining a shortage of physicians and, for example, would vehemently oppose graduating 5-10% more physicians starting now as a means of filling the physician gap. Their motivation is to keep existing physicians in very high demand so that they can maximize compensation and job security.
I think the ultimate problem (neoliberalism) is that there are too many people in positions of power that are trying to profiteer off of a system that's intended to provide a public service (e.g., privatization of healthcare, hospital inaccessibility in rural communities, the large number of Canadians without a primary care provider)
The CMA's goal is indeed privatization of healthcare for profit.
Reference for this statement please?
It was here on lemmy by someone. I have a hard time finding it. It was an anecdotal evidence about someone working in some capacity for the CMA, and they've seen the lobbying by the entity. I will try to find it.
Here's a well-documented example of their interest in privatization: https://www.healthcoalition.ca/the-canadian-medical-associations-cross-canada-town-halls-are-pro-privatization-say-doctors/