Should there be more or less privatization of hospital and healthcare services?

I believe that there should more privatized healthcare in order to avoid overcrowding and hopefully allow for faster medical attention, however I also believe that there should be more government funding towards public healthcare in order to ensure that everyone is able to access some form of healthcare if needed, as is a human right.

More, and doctors should not be penalized or stripped of their licences for looking at alternative therapies for patients

There can be both private and public however the public healthcare system needs to change therefore need for more funding

I need to educate myself before forming an opinion

If there is privatization on healthcare services. The expenses should be a 100% tax write off.

More, but increase government funding so people who can't afford private health can go through the public system

2 tier system

I believe that there should more privatized healthcare to reduce overcrowding in the hospitals and allow for faster medical attention. However, there should be more government funding going to public healthcare in order to ensure that everyone is able to access some form of healthcare. Our medical system is in shambles and needs to be fixed.

Have government funding for important things, life saving surgery's, births, children's healthcare, things like that, but otherwise I think that if you are willing to pay for certain things right away you should be given the chance to do that so you can fix a problem of yours faster. I don't believe that privatized healthcare is a terrible idea, but I do believe it needs to be balanced with some public support.

More - reduce red tape and allow practitioners to open specialized private clinics and increase government spending in the public health care system.

There should be more of both public and private infrastructures and private services should be regulated to some extent to avoid fees getting out of control.

More privatization but with STRICT checks and balances and mandatory 50/50 time split for physicians between private and public systems

Yes, for better access to medical care, but the government should subsidize the cost between private and government run facilities.

Private clinics should be permitted but receive no government funding. Additionally, we need to allow more nurse practitioners to offer the same services as family GPs, produce more doctors (or promote immigration of Dr.s from other countries), but we need to reign in the salaries of doctors. There is no reason a GP should make 3 to 500k per year after receiving a taxpayer subsidized education. GP salaries and Nurse practitioner salaries could be 180k to 225k for providing family practice services and that would be a fair wage for services offered. If domestically produced Dr.s leave the country they can pay back the government for the subsidized education they received.

Maybe a flat fee of a small amount that can help with funding but some people really struggle in this day and age to afford anything. Hard to answer

Make it easier to get into med school or nurse practitioner to have more practitioners. Privatizing isn’t going to do anything - it’s a lack of practitioners.

There should be privatization of some hospitals, but not all. I believe there should be that option for people who could afford it, although there still needs to be an option for those who can’t. The healthcare system is terrible!

More, but increase the funding and resources available in the public system. Allow privatization for those who can afford it and increase public resources for those who can’t.

The option for privatized healthcare should be available, however no tax dollars should fund it. tax dollars go to a public healthcare system that is entirely separate.

Provinces should learn from each others good working plans. A nurse or dr should be able to work in any province within Canada. Our healthcare is in a crisis with the lack of staff. We lost a lot during COVID or through burnout due to overloaded work schedules.

More private clinics for people willing to pay and some of that cost is added to the public system to fund people that cannot afford to pay for quicker service

More Privatized options would be good for the people that can afford to and that would free up space in the medicare system for everyone else

any one who does not believe we already have a two tiered system is wrong. We already have private health care , you can arrange to jump the que if you are on a Workers Compensation Claim for example. You can choose to get varicous veins done at hospital under General anesthetic and a hospital stay, or pay the same surgeon to do it under local in his clinic.

Privatization should be allowed, but government should not be funding it. Government should be providing more funding for the current healthcare system. However, Government should be monitoring spending of these institutions so that there is no corruption or mismanagement of funds. There should be an accountability of their budget, if they are to receive funding from government.

Reform current broken system and have access to both options while allocating better funding to the public healthcare system

Should be balanced out basic coverage is great for the basics. Though people should have the option to private care if they so choose.

Less, but let there be someplace for these people just starting out to add things to their portfolio

Less, and the Doctor lobby groups need to be more accepting of international training recognition and an expansion of nurse practitioners

There should be both private and public healthcare, but the public healthcare system needs more funding.

Less. Nurses and other employees should not be allowed to work for private agencies. We should increase scholarships for nursing and medical students, especially in isolated regions. But, we have to invest money to make the system better. We should not have to wait 12 hours in a waiting room. I also do not want to have to remortgage my house to pay for medical bills, so privatization.

Have private healthcare and public health care, if those who don’t want to wait for procedures are willing to pay for them it creates less of a stress on the system. Wait lines in public domains will be shorter.

More but allow better an fairer insurance coverage and allow better payment options for those without insurance

Private healthcare is not healthcare. A profit motive is impossible to reconcile with helping anyone.

More. Allow a small flat rate entry fee for private ones to remove unnecessary stress off public free hospitals

I think that providing more privatization with in the health care field would reduce wait times, that said I believe in universal health care, and think that Canada could do a better job of mixing the two sectors. That being said the reality is we currently have a doctors shortage so we need to increase the amount of medical schools.

More, but still have a majority in public healthcare so people can still get the health care they need

Allow more privatization of MRI, UT, CT Scan. Allow Private surgical units withe caveat they can only charge double the cost it would incur to a public surgery. For every 2 private surgeries they perform, they must do 1 from the public list

More, maintaining public system but allowing private institutions to exist to both release pressure from public services and economic competition.

Private services should be allowed to a degree, but currently it seems any private services are only accessible to the wealthy

More private options but use public money to fund private health care options. Less bureaucracy spending the money.

Allow privatization for people who want to pay for faster service. Freeing up time for everyone else in the public system

there should be no privatization for hospitals as canada is a free health care system, but should be privatized for dentistry, etc. as it is not paid by the government

Less. Improve current healthcare and improve admission criteria for Canadian born citizens to attend medical school. (i.e., less foreign students in our medical schools).

More privatization of simple dr services, however capping crazy price hikes and standards at private practices

Some private healthcare is ok but public healthcare needs to be priority and funded appropriately so that everyone has access to healthcare

Current funding model is lots of money with poor efficiency and outcomes. We need a hard look at how healthcare dollars are spent.

Fix health care, easy access to family doctor, no wait time for surgery. Fix the broken health care in Canada. Remove quotas for becoming doctor. Break the college of surgeons maffia controlling how many Doctors we can have. Make healthcare competitive to make treatments cheaper

We need to see fewer hospital administrators, more medical professionals and a better more transparent management of the public health care system

There should be the standard government healthcare system but also private for people who can afford it, less stress on the the system.

There should be better hospital availability to everyone, whether those are private or government healthcare services.

More, but run by the government so quality of care is the same for both. People who can afford to pay will shorten the wait for people who can not afford to pay.

Dont restrict private healthcare service and dont punish healthcare workers for working in private health care, Eliminate waste of tax dollars and cut funding where possible (only where funding is being wasted). Then lower taxes.

The current system should be adjusted to reduce wait times without resorting to overt privatization.

There needs to be better oversight of public dollars being spent in healthcare so what is spent is more effective

more, we need to start granting more doctors access into canada, because too many people are going without doctors.

people should have access to private healthcare at their own expense for faster service, but there should also be subsidies for lower-income families who may not be able to afford this to ensure that everyone gets the care they need.

hybrid model (ex. switzerland) where those who make under a certain income are partially subsidised by the government

More but have privatization healthcare as an alternative option for individuals who would prefer that kind of healthcare.

There should be no privatization of the healthcare industry, everyone should be able to get the best healthcare possible no matter what. Heathcare should have much more funding that it does now.

I think healthcare should be free and available to the public. That being said I still wouldn't want hospitals being overcrowded and having super long wait times to be treated.

There should be better interoperability and collaboration between private and public health services

A mix of private for those who want/can have it and keep free Healthcare for those who can't afford private

Natural medicine professionals are considered private and a huge part of health and wellness. Government should recognize the need for these professionals in our current healthcare system.

I think there should be an option, that if you can afford it you can choose to use private healthcare providers... but this should not effect the funding going into public healthcare, and rates of pay should be similar for all employees wither they work private or public.

People should be able to get services faster if they are willing to pay for it. But not at the expense of free health care services.

Less I think everyone should be allowed free healthcare and more funding should be put into the industry to allow less wait times for urgent injuries and quicker easier healthcare for everyone.

We should have access to both and be able to have the choice if we want to/ are able to spend money for private healthcare

Public health care is critical but privatization should be included as long as part of the payment goes to the public system

Combination of private and non-private hospitals and health care. Doctors, nurses and other health care professionals have to do a certain number of hours/days in government funded hospitals/healthcare facilities

More, government should fund the bare minimum. People should be able to purchase better services and care.

we should have a combination have some private for those who want it and some for those who want public but obviously offer public cause people might find it hard to afford

More, If systemic issues and barriers were addressed, I believe that there would be a more natural balance between privatized and public health care that would allow for everyone to receive better care.

If systemic issues and barriers were addressed, I believe that there would be a more natural balance between privatized and public health care that would allow for everyone to receive better care.

I would say move towards more because of the losers that abuse the system and are constantly at the hosptial for drugs issues or even use them for a ride.

There should be no privatization of health care in Canada. Funding for health care should be expanded and evidence based training for doctors should be expanded. This should include Eye exams, mental health access and Dental health.

New Zealand has a fantastic way of triaging services so that ERs are not open to public walk in, patients are triaged by phone to appropriate services to reduce wait times and ambulances or other driver services bring patients to the appropriate Public Health Service and not always to the hospital! This reduces public spending in healthcare and reduces wait times. Also nurse practitioners should be able to have their own practices free from physicians.

More, and let each province decide by how much it is willing to subsidize it, as healthcare is under provincial jurisdiction, not federal.

More should be available for choice of private for those who can afford it, while not wasting our already high taxes elsewhere & to other countries & instead put our taxes back to us towards improving our current public healthcare system.

Hybrid system, to offer options to those who can afford it, while freeing up space in hospitals that are not privatized who cannot afford privatized

Increase socialized medicine and and make a duel healthcare system where people can also have access to a separate private healthcare

Having more or less can be both options which could offer flexibility. Public services could ensure everyone has access to basic healthcare, while private options can offer efficiency and innovation.

More, but ensure compliance with consumer protections standards (put a cap), and incentivize upstream prevention program development

Give people the opportunity for both if they can afford it without decreasing funding for public health for those who need it

Ensuring the choice of healthcare is driven by patients. Privatization possible only under oversight of government and with involvement of patient advocacies

Add more government funding for those less fortunate and give those with money the opportunity to be seen faster if they want

The same but canada need to take a stronger look at health care spending and make efficeincy changes

The way it is right now is good, but we need more people working in health care, and if people wanna go to private health care they can

people with privatized insurance should be covered completely by their insurer, as opposed to the half assery happening to my partner and i right now because its expected that we can get a doctor via public healthcare but we can not because the system is SO overloaded right now that finding adequate healthcare is difficult.

Keep the current public healthcare system and add a separate private healthcare system like several European countries have

We want free health care. But i’m tired of doctors pushing me out the door to get the next patient. Also tired of every doctor thinking everyone wants drugs. We want to not be broken and need to be told how to fix our selves

Whatever means better care for the patients and better conditions for nurses and doctors and pharmacists, etc.

Less, there shouldn’t be privatization of healthcare. However, public health care workers should be paid more and given better working conditions.

Provide more government funding and introduce incentive's to Canadians to encourage more to become health care professionals. More specifically, we need more doctors.

Even though a free healthcare system is great, it is far to overcrowded now and doesn't work. It's like the government is just wasting all of the money somehow. There should be less privatization of these services, however more money should be spent on new hospitals that accept cash in exchange for faster service.

I think that there should be a balance between the both(private and public) and let our citizens choose for which one they need for specific things

More , but with government at both provincial and federal levels providing assistance to allow residents to access private systems with public money in certain medical cases

Children should not be making choices for themselves when it comes to health, other than vacanations in highschool. Which they should tell you the side effects, and what it does to your body, no lies.

No Private Healthcare. We need well funded healthcare, and incentives to train Canadian healthcare professionals, such as 10-year Contract Refunded tuition for Dr. of Med. if the Healthcare worker practises in Canada for 10 years after licensing. No privatization.

There should be more and better available heath resources in terms of our benefits coverage and government should be able to assist those who really need it.