"Hospital emergency rooms in the Montreal area are overcrowded and some patients have been waiting more than two days to see a doctor."
The solution isn't introducing more fees and stocking up the ER rooms to accept large capacities.
Reader Voska1 has the right idea -
I'd like to know how many people are in the ER that don't need to be but have no other option due to lack of a family doctor and not enough walk in clinics. I know where I live we have a shortage of doctors so finding a family doctor is difficult. As well walk in clinics have such short hour and huge line ups that you often can't get in unless you are there at the moment they open. So if you are sick they tell you to go to the ER as they can't get you in during that 3 hour window.
The solution seems to be more family doctors and more walk in clinic with longer hours. But the focus always seem to be on how can the ER handle more traffic. That's just treating the symptom not the problem.
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