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Irene Jansen

Video Debates Part 1: Can private clinics fix public health care? - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • The Globe's health care panel looks at the state of Canada's health care system and discusses the role private clinics can play within Medicare.
  • Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12
     
    Irfan Dhalla and Mark Godley on private clinics. At 3 min 16 sec, for-profit clinic owner Godley (owner of False Creek in Vancouver and Maples in Winnipeg) claims his clinic in Manitoba has sharply reduced wait times.
Irene Jansen

Mark Godley, Maples Surgical Clinic, Winnipeg interviewed by the Frontier Centre for Pu... - 0 views

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  • the opening the Maples Surgical Centre in Winnipeg was built on the backbone of a contract with the Worker’s Compensation Board, back in 2001
  • I think the Canada Health Act is very noble. But I believe there isn’t a government in Canada today that follows it at every level of functioning.
  • It is used and interpreted in such a way to maintain the status quo because there are very powerful, special interest groups that essentially run Medicare.
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  • the Canada Health Act is being held hostage
  • the False Creek Surgical Clinic in British Columbia
  • it has only
  • MG: We treat our employees based on merit. Whether they receive perks and raises and also enjoy job satisfaction is very much geared towards their productivity. They get paid really well, so it is a very pleasant working environment for all of us.
  • three operating rooms and uses the labour force from the public system in their off-times
  • From the perspective of the Workers Compensation Board, it’s quite hard for them not to send patients to us when you consider that it has been such a success story in provinces. In British Columbia, it is the norm for patients from the Workers Compensation Board to receive care in private facilities.
  • FC: It is said that one of the reasons the public healthcare establishment is resisting competition is that private clinics are typically not unionized, which means no union dues for public sector union bosses. Your view?
  • performs over 3,000 procedures a year
  • MG: I would say that is true.
  • Seniority and the advancement of an individual because of seniority is simply never going to occur in our system.
  • FC: The Maples Clinic has become synonymous in Manitoba with a single piece of equipment, your MRI machine.
  • FC: One of the government’s arguments is that they can produce an MRI scan for $300, compared to your price near $700.
  • MG: The Workers Compensation Board came up with a plan where they are willing to pay a premium in order to get patients back into the workforce faster. The prerequisite was that patients would be treated within a very short time frame—ten days from the time of consultation to surgery within 21 days—to get people back into the workforce faster. That has resulted in huge savings in lost wages, and that savings was actually expanded to businesses and corporations in the form of lower premiums
  • How much did they actually save in B.C. by using the False Creek clinic?
  • over two million dollars
  • In most other developed countries with universal access, the purchaser of health services is a different entity than the providers.
  • we should open up Medicare services to private insurers
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