[OC] Number of physicians per 1000 residentsSubmitted by giteam t3_120km4f in dataisbeautiful
OneLessFool t1_jdkbo0b wrote
Reply to comment by snakesoup88 in [OC] Number of physicians per 1000 residents by giteam
No, that's only a small part of it.
It's because we stopped expanding the number of medical graduates and residencies (not just doctors either) to keep up with population growth. 40 years ago we had over 6 doctors per 1000 people. But then we started voting for people like Mulroney and Chrétien and it was all downhill from there as we slowly destroyed public services and crown corps in favour of neoliberal economics.
ceaton604 t1_jdl2px9 wrote
It’s worse: in 1992 the feds and provinces got together and agreed to actually reduce the numbers to save money. Yes, they went back on that deal but it led to the deficit we are still in.
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