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.
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.
For example:
Would it cost more than $200M to spin up a program like that?
How long would it take to train enough prople and acquire the equipment to make the program worth it?
How many years would it take before we started to see a return on that investment?
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.
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!!
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.
For example:
Would it cost more than $200M to spin up a program like that?
How long would it take to train enough prople and acquire the equipment to make the program worth it?
How many years would it take before we started to see a return on that investment?