Shawn Whatley, Author at shawn whatley md

Doctor Shortage and Other Nonsense

Plumbers never complain about a plumber shortage. Same thing for bricklayers and accountants. But doctors complain about a doctor shortage, all the time.

We do not have a doctor shortage. We have an artificial doctor shortage caused by shackling doctors.

In some cases, patients cannot access care because government will not pay for technology or operating rooms.

But in most cases, patients experience a shortage because doctors are limited by the number of hours they can physically endure seeing patients. No other service industry operates this way.

Rationing

The state has placed artificial restraints on what doctors can do.

If doctors were woodchoppers, it would be like telling choppers that they can only chop with a child’s axe, and they must do 100% of the chopping themselves. Continue reading “Doctor Shortage and Other Nonsense”

5 Things Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Know About Socialized Medicine

Canada has lost the moral high ground with socialized medicine. Vulnerable patients wait longer and receive less care than wealthy patients.

Check out the 5 minute video below. Stay tuned for other videos on Canadian issues. All short. All fun.

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Health Care: The biggest non-issue this election

I wrote this article for The Epoch Times and wanted to share it with you. Enjoy!

With a health care system in desperate need of innovation, every election candidate competes to avoid saying anything new.

Overall, 37% of Canadian voters rank health care as their top issue going into the election. But only 5.8% of voters say that health care will change their vote. That number would increase if candidates actually said something unique about health care.

But no one does.They all wrap themselves in the flag of medicare and pledge allegiance to our national icon.

Since health care won’t win more votes, it ends up as a the most important non-issue in every election. Voters learn nothing new and hear more of the same or nothing at all.

Health care is Canada’s third rail in politics: “If you touch it, you get electrocuted”. Candidates have everything to lose, when addressing health care. Their only gain lies in promising more of what got us here in the first place. Continue reading “Health Care: The biggest non-issue this election”