Quote Originally Posted by Margaret's boy View Post
This story is more for anyone planning to visit Ontario from Michigan. Canadian, not just Ontario, health care is crisis, with nurses fleeing hospitals in Windsor, London and Toronto for nursing jobs in Michigan, Ohio and New York. I would love to hear from the American forum on how health care in Michigan compares to Ontario and how we can fix it .VITAL SIGNS OF TROUBLE: Many Ontario nurses fleeing for U.S. jobs | Toronto Sun
As one might expect from any Sun Media publication, this is over-wrought drivel.

To be clear, there are problems in Canadian Healthcare, as there have been for many years.

Just as there are in U.S. healthcare and healthcare in pretty much every other jurisdiction.

Some are a bit better on the whole, some a bit worse; most are similar but with slightly different areas of excellence and failure.

To be sure, nursing shortages and doctors shortages have been more acute as of late in Ontario and some other healthcare systems in Canada; this is also not unique to our province/country.

That doesn't make it ok; it requires attention and investment with some haste.

But The Sun manages [[as per its norm) to take a real problem and exaggerate it with hyperbole and make assertions for which no evidence except 3 anecdotes are provided.

Notwithstanding that, let's look at two quotes from the article:

First:


Right, so we don't have a number, at all in this story, nor do we have last year's number or 10 years ago number with which to compare it.

Second:



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So here, we find not that nurses are fleeing due to lack of work, grossly low pay, or systemic failure, but because they can get a raise, a one-time check for $15,000USD and a lighter work load.

The Sun, as usual undermines its own arguments, one doesn't have to do much work on that front.

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This article from CTV indicates a different problem, that Ontario has 26,000 qualified nurses who are currently not permitted to nurse [[international credentials not yet recognized)

Of those, 14000 are RNs.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/major-...ines-1.6015229