Cory Morgan: Health-Care in Canada: It’s Not the Spending Model That’s Broken, It’s the System

Cory Morgan: Health-Care in Canada: It’s Not the Spending Model That’s Broken, It’s the System
Ambulances outside the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S., in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
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The story is the same in every province in Canada. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed, hospitals are short-staffed, and ICU space can never seem to keep up with extraordinary pressures whether they be from a local disaster, a flu outbreak, or a spike in COVID-19 cases. Waiting lists for medical specialists continue to grow while it has become nearly impossible in some areas to find a family doctor.