PT6A,
How about we hire cheap physicians from Cuba to staff all Canadian hospitals ? No need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars training Canadian doctors, that on top of it, we will have to pay 2 to 300K/year. It will certainly bring the cost of Healthcare down. I hear the Cuban doctors would gladly accept $1000/month if we offer room and board in some sort of camp. With globalization, and free trade and all, this is what the world is coming to and why fight it ? It's up to Canada, to compete, to be able to train doctors at the same cost the Cubans are capable training them, and it's up to Canada to be able to compete with the salaries of the Cuban Doctors. I mean, it's the Canadian Taxpayers that are taking the brunt of Healthcare in Canada. The salaries of physicians in Canada accounts for 15% of the country's health care expenditures. With about $195 Billion in health care expenditures per year, Canada spends about 29 Billion on physicians' salaries alone. We should send all our expensive Canadian physicians to work for high salaries, in Saudia Arabia, where they are popular and in high demand, and bring the cost of Health in Canada down by importing cheap Cuban physicians.
Of course, the presence of all the Cuban doctors in Canada will increase the actual net number of jobs since all security guards, receptionists, administrative employees and nurses will still be Canadian, and with the money we will save by having Cuban doctors instead of Canadian ones, we will be able to open more hospitals in smaller towns where none could be afforded beforehand, and in these small towns we will hire more Canadian staff for these new hospitals. All the $12/hour employees in these new hospitals will be in favor of the Cuban doctors of course.....
I'm certain you agree with all I wrote here, right ?
Last edited by Minorite invisible; 16th May 2012 at 20:16.