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As provincial and federal governments starve the public system it creates strain on the doctors and nurses we depend on. "The prevailing theme was that the [health-care] system is broken," wrote co-author Kerstin de Wit, an emergency physician at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and professor at Queen’s University, who conducted the research with the Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers. It's not broken. Something happening by design cannot be called broken. Various levels of government have invested in new approaches to emergency care in recent years. Most of these 'new approaches involve public funding of private services - typically at a much higher cost for delivery, adding even more pressure to already limited funding. Things will really get rolling once we go two-tiered. Doctors and nurses leaving the public system will be pawns in a labour competition between the systems. Those willing to pay get the good care, while the rest of us get the scraps of what's left. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ed-physician-survey-9.7279736