Only $200 million? That’s like 100 treatments in the US per year for all of Canada?
Honestly, this is reasonable. $200M is basically loose change in the couch as far as national budgets are concerned.
If we don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here, I have no problems as a taxpayer paying about $10/year to let people get those procedures done elsewhere.
we don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here
I would say this is the part that’s unreasonable. Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn’t exactly a point of pride.
Also the only g7 without high speed rail!!! Wooooo!!
canada #7!!
Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn’t exactly a point of pride.
There is something to be said about self reliance and independence, but I don’t have the data to know if that’s actually a problem. Until I have that, I’ll give the government the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the cost/difficulty of comprehensive healthcare.
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Would it cost more than $200M to spin up a program like that?
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How long would it take to train enough prople and acquire the equipment to make the program worth it?
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How many years would it take before we started to see a return on that investment?
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From the data listed the chart I’m surprised adding more MRI’s isn’t low hanging fruit. As expensive as they are should be able to recupe their cost fairly quickly. In context it’s relatively straightforward monetary investment that would essentially eliminate the need to at the very least send people out of country.
