• knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Don't worry, the late crack smoking former mayor of Toronto Rob Ford's brother Doug Ford will just privatize healthcare and that will fix everything.

    /s in case that wasn't clear.

    • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      hm not sure, perhaps because the non-hospital medical care isn't treating patients effectively (overworked & overloaded) leading to the development of chronic issues

      the population is also older, like other rich nations

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        If I’m reading this right this won’t account for impacts of the pandemic and the burdens of long covid, as the data was taken from 2002 to 2020. I imagine numbers are likely to get revised upwards.

        https://www.oha.com/Documents/externalresources/Projected%20patterns%20of%20illness%20in%20Ontario.pdf

    • Ivysaur [she/her]
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      1 month ago

      remember that thing that happened in 2020

      it's that