Sounds like what every hospital is facing as the Omicron wave breaks over Ontario, threatening to inundate the health care system. At the same time, governments essentially ration care by restricting the supply of hospital beds; that caps the number of procedures that can be performed. But surely we’ve learned by now that when it comes to health care we were living in a fool’s paradise; government “savings” have cost us hugely in terms of lives, health and social well-being. Ontario has also hired some 6,700 more health care workers and budgeted $342 million to add more nurses and personal support workers. But if we’ve learned anything from the trauma of COVID, it’s that cheaping out on hospital care will cost us even more in the long run.

Source: thestar January 09, 2022 02:28 UTC