By increasing the privatization of Healthcare, citizen’s ability to access and rely on Canada’s Healthcare system already in place will only decrease further. This is a step in the wrong direction, as more attention should be paid socially and financially towards our Healthcare system. The Healthcare system in all forms, symbolically and what should be practically, saves lives and allows free and even access to Healthcare to serve and support our citizens. By privatizing the Healthcare system further, we as a country are limiting our citizen’s Healthcare options in what should be a system designed to relieve the burden of our citizen’s safety and care. Canadian Healthcare privatization is a shift to decrease reliance on public government funded Healthcare, something which is intrinsically designed to be relied upon. This means our sick will have less options to turn to when in need, our injured no haven from being forced to provide for their own support. Our Healthcare system should not punish those who catch illness by limiting their options to being required pay for their own health, but nurture them back to normal so our citizen’s can return to their jobs healthily and able. This [privatization of Healthcare] of course will only increase the class divide in access to Healthcare, something that should not be dictated by income, in providing less publicly funded Healthcare services and leaning more on private Healthcare initiatives that are not affordable for low income households.

There are people who need these public services, the privatization of Healthcare will not make up the overcrowding at hospitals, it does not produce more doctors and nurses to tend to them or the equipment and space necessary to care for them during their stay. Moreover, having independent and divided institutional Healthcare only hastens the declining ability for the Canadian Healthcare system to properly tend to those who need it to simply live secure lives.

To better treat these issues, more funding should be allocated towards our public Healthcare, because one cannot put a price on the safety and necessity for immediate, reliable and accessible Healthcare, something that should be provided for all Canadian citizens and all who depend on Canadian Healthcare.

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