Socialist healthcare always on verge of collapse

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Nov 21

RE: Ambulance delays at Hamilton hospitals a growing problem  The Hamilton Spectator news item 6 Nov 21.

The story reveals not just that Hamilton hospitals can barely cope with small surges in emergency demand, but that this problem has been growing for years.  Years, as in pre-COVID.  So, it’s no wonder the health care system across Ontario came close to collapse repeatedly during the several COVID waves.

With fewer than 205 COVID hospitalizations province wide as of this writing, Hamilton hospital emergency admissions jammed up and approached collapse on an ordinary Friday afternoon.  How would a real crisis have been handled?

Given the present state of decrepitude of the Ontario health care system, it’s no wonder extraordinary measures like lockdowns were imposed in an effort to prevent its embarrassing collapse.  Ontario wrecked its finances, violated civil and constitutional rights, put thousands out of business and out of work to save its healthcare system, not lives.  Saving lives may have been a corollary that made lockdowns palatable, but the stated and actual reason was to save the healthcare system from collapse.

Were previous Ontario governments penny-wise and pound-foolish in arranging that the healthcare system run at 95 percent of capacity in ordinary times?

Probably not.  Throwing money into the gaping maw of healthcare could never satisfy the fattening beast; it would only find new places to put it.  How many diversity and anti-racism programs and bureaucrats been funded with extra billions?  Even today, post COVID, it’s in no one’s personal interest to run a hospital more efficiently.

Things will be run the way they are until they break, and even then lockdowns will be called for rather than innovation.  Remember, it was the doctors who called for lockdown.  The doctors who ran Ontario healthcare had a vested interest in dodging responsibility for the parlous state of Ontario healthcare at the beginning of and throughout the pandemic.  Passing the buck is too easy when you’re the authority you’re appealing to.  Not a single reporter at a press conference pointed a finger and asked, “aren’t you the one responsible for having to lock down because of the way you ran healthcare the last five years?”

Socialism at work.  Of course, the media is filled with progressives and asking questions that challenged socialized medicine just aren’t asked.  They’ll also too easily impressed by credentials and credentialism..

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