LILLEY UNLEASHED: Is there a doctor in the house ?

Sun political columnist Brian Lilley and Dr. Barry Dworkin discuss the limited amount of doctors and healthcare services that can be provided across the country as severe shortages loom and are occurring.

[nickpearce]

This federal government has spent 100s of millions of our dollars on various gender studies abroad when that we could have invested in fixing and optimizing health for Canadians. An astounding level, if not criminal, level of negligence and abdication of fiduciary responsibility to Canadians.

[Shirleygirley]

It is outrageous that this government would send that doctor back to the UK when we are so badly needing more doctors!!! WTF!!!

[TheClipperchip]

What a horrible time to be a Canadian citizen!

[vociferon-heraldofthewinte]

I know a native born Canadian who attended medical school in the United Kingdom who is not allowed to practice if she returns to Canada.
Here is a question that government needs to answer:
Why does Canada have 8 times the number of administrators per hospital bed than Germany and twice as many as the UK?

[brendas.]

I would gladly pay $10 per visit at the doctor's office to help the office to provide better services and also to help pay for equipment repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. Thank you, Brian and Dr. Barry Dworkin for openly discussing this very important topic. Happy New Year to you both!🎉

[princessmargaretuncommonwe]

I stopped going for checkups. I find the doctors BARELY LOOK AT YOU as they sit at a social distant space, ask questions, and type the answers into the computer. What is the point??? So unless there is something REALLY wrong, I do not waste my time, their time, and tax dollars.

[g_myster]

I'm in my 50's and live in Alberta but I'm from Toronto. I'd be happy to pay per visit. That helps my doctor and ensures he will stay here. Patients should have the choice and we need much less bureaucracy.

[francesmarion]

I don't mind spending 10 dollars for a visit as I have paid into Ohio for over 40 years. As people don't seem to realize if you have an income your employee deducts from your paycheck to pay for this and if your income is over a certain ount you pay a surcharge on your income tax. My problem is new immigrants receiving health care.when they come to Canada and haven't paid a dime into the system. Look at all fhe immigrants that bring their parent and grandparents to Canada and are given health care without ever contributing. This is also a major problem why do we not have a.charge for them why do they get.it for.nothing.

[stephenstaeger]

Thanks, Brian. Please keep up the good work.

[delmason]

We should have had a nominal fee per visit decades ago! Canadian arrogance has put us in this situation. We're so smart ... our health care is FREE! Now we are gouged through our taxes for a health care system that is substandard.

[GeorgeBrunner-lv]

I would gladly pay $50 if I could get in to see my doctor within a week.

[sandywong]

Great guest today! I’m a low income senior and would be very willing to pay 10$! My kids moved to Vancouver Island and finally after four years they have a family doctor! We all know that something has to change in the medical system.

[ta]

Just turned 70, haven't seen a doctor for many years. But I'd be happy to pay a nominal amount per visit!

[seanmoore]

Sending that Dr. back to the 🇬🇧 UK because she’s over 45 and single is crazy, I mean I don’t think your even allowed to put your age and marital status on a job application, so what gives?

[johanneshoogenboom]

I have completely lost faith in our healthcare system especially after COVID. It needs to be overhauled like every other institution in Canada after the long march for the last 50 years.

[sharroon]

I would be happy enough to see a nurse practitioner, but that's not even an option where I live. I have no access to the healthcare that I pay for, and I'm furious.

[done]

I recently had a cervical laminectomy, decompression and fusion from C2-C7 and was discharged 20 hours later, after 7 hours of surgery. What a horrible experience that has left me wondering why I was a pro-social, tax paying Canadian my entire life. The government is not living up to it's end of the taxation for health-care contract.

[teshosborne]

I am 65 i have not had a doctor since 2015, This gov should not have incentivised young, new doctors coming out of the college to go as mobile doctors, locking in their pentions, they can't open offices on those contracts . Thank fed gov for doing this, that is why doctors call from ski hills on a cell phone, or one calls from Paris on holiday, they get paid because a doc must prescribe meds . How can any doctor help anyone on a phone if they can't even see you or examine you ?? Thanks to Justin and this government, many do not know doctors make more money going mobile, work less each week, have no office overhead costs .. 😢 .. we have no family doctors, now they are rare thanks Justin.

[josephinefothergill]

When I emigrated from the UK to Calgary almost 50 years ago the healthcare was marvellous. If you were working you automatically paid a very reasonable monthly fee deducted from your salary one fee for singles and a slightly higher fee for families. This was the Alberta Healthcare Program. This was changed to free healthcare (probably because of the cost of administration). We then started getting long waiting lists and not necessarily the care we had become used to. My friends and I often say we would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for a visit to the doctor if it improved the treatment. Just my opinion.

[pwhite]

My daughter and her family moved to Australia where this co-pay system seems to work. Yes many ppl complain, however, they are able to see a physician right away.