According to "Two-tier" Tony Clement the Conservative Wait Time guarrantees will have legal force, and failure to meet them means patients will be able to sue.
Sounds like a good idea, eh?
No hip replacement this week? Grandma is off to see the lawyer so they can sue the lazy doctor and incompetent hospital.
Well, Grandma won't be the only person rubbing their hands together, no these kids just saw a whole new business line develop.
Buy insurance stocks kids, they just found a whole new growth area.
And who will pay that insurance premium increase? Well, the doctors and the hospitals.
But hang on, where do they get their funding from? Why the taxpayer of course!
Congrats. Two-tier Tony just jacked up your taxes for health care, and not a penny in the new costs will provide one more hospital bed, physician or MRI.
Or maybe Tories will get tough, and tell hospitals to be more competitive, and not screw up or see their bottomline take the hit.
In which case, no worries about additional costs, they'll take out of their current budget. And you know, spend less on other things, like... uh, health care?
But insurance brokers, well, they'll be happy. Because the government always pays their bills on time... it's like, well, a guarrantee.
A health care guarrantee, if you like...
Nice.
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The logic? Well, in a less satirical tone, if you set a up a system which will create a legal vulnerability for a specific sector or profession, that sector and profession will protect itself.
Normally, that protection will take the form of insurance.
So if hospitals and doctors know that they can be sued for not meeting guarrantees, they will likely insure themselves against it.
That means higher premiums and additional costs. It means money out of the health care system and into insurance to cover legal costs, settlements and claims.
There is the logic, I should have been more clear.
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