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Private health care won’t reduce wait times — it may raise them, report says(globalnews.ca)

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A new report released Thursday says that privatization of health care in Ontario won’t reduce wait times but may actually increase them.

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Well, if you were a billionaire with private doctors and access to preferred care then you would be way better off than someone in Canada, ergo the American system is better.

That’s the only performance based argument in favor of privatized care that I can think of.

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