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Long wait times have become increasingly common in Canada, leading some residents to travel outside of the country to have medical surgeries and procedures done sooner.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

With long wait times becoming a defining characteristic of Canada's health-care system,

Here's the toxic spin.

By not stressing that our medical system is a temporary mess thanks to COVID fallout, it paints our system as normally a wreck. This is disingenuous and echoes the same irresponsible comments made by one of our political parties not in power and not possessing a history of care themselves.

Horribly irresponsible.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Here in Ontario Ford's government is busy under-funding, dismantling, and privatizing our healthcare. This is a system that was in slow decline, COVID nearly broke, and which is now being abused by the government in power. This is anything but a temporary problem.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

This was happening long before Covid.