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Friday, March 17: A doctor is unimpressed with the weekend surgery project in Ottawa. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com
Published Mar 17, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Judge health care options properly
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Re: Editorial, Public health care in Ontario — just focus on what works best, March 10.
Your editorial assumes the answer to the question of what actually does work best without testing that assumption.
Specifically, it assumes that using a private company to perform hip surgeries on weekends is the best solution. However, the government has given no indication that it is actually comparing it to other alternatives to see if it is, in fact, the best or most cost-efficient way to expand access to surgeries.
The most obvious alternative is to fund the hospital itself to perform more surgeries, rather than the more complicated mechanism of paying a company which then pays for the facility, equipment and staff and then, presumably, pays itself. As we are told that all the costs are cove