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The German model for privatization in Canadian health care.
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"Contrary to a widespread fear in Canada, private hospitals do not cut corners in quality of service to reduce their costs," Mr. Roeder states. "Studies show that the success of private institutions relies on their reputations: higher-quality care is what enables them to attract patients and make profits." For example, the organization in charge of monitoring the quality of care in Germany has found 9% more problems in public hospitals than in for-profit private hospitals.
Canada and Germany share similar values of universality in health care...
One problem I've noticed with Canadians is that too many associate health care privatization with moving towards a U.S system. They seem to not realize that the U.S system isn't the only system that can serve as a model for privatization. The U.S system has problems with waste and inefficencies but it is a system dealing with 300 million people. Canadians need to look at privtization efforts in countries with similar population sizes as theirs to get a better idea on how privatization could work there.
Private hospitals != privatization of health care. What's the point of this thread?
The point is that you can have privatization with these hospitals and still have a universal health care system like Germany has.
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This is taking place within the context of a universal health care system, where 90% of the population is insured through statutory health insurance and the remaining through mandatory private health insurance. Nobody is left without care.
This isn't about the Canadian system as whole becoming privatized.
It's about adding more privatized services to their system which many Canadians seem to have issues with because they associate expanding privatization in their system with becoming more like the U.S. But that doesn't have to be the case and this is why German examples are being talked about.
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