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Whats insane to me is there is a huge shortage of doctors but I know at least 4 or 5 people in my cohort that are on the 3rd or 4th attempt to get into med school, and these are decent applicants. Then when you do get in you're 6 figures in debt and signed up for 4-8 more years of schooling so of course everyone heads down to the states where you can make 2-3X what you would make here. Add the massive privatization push, awful working conditions for nurses, too much work/stress for not enough money and of course you're going to see a massive exodus out of the system. Its just a mess
You don't need to "add in" the massive privatization push, FWIW. All of these others things are a part of it. Step one in privatizing an overwhelmingly popular social service (and something that has been a key part of our national identity for a few generations now) is to... Break it.
Break it to the point where it stops being integral to people's understanding of the way things work.
This has been a long term strategy of starving the beast, and that is what has caused all of the rest.
Nurses fleeing privatization are going to America?
Irony.
For my understanding its more a combo of overwork/underpay. A bunch left the field altogether after having annual increases capped for years, it just wasn't worth it anymore. Might as well go somewhere where you'll get adequately compensated.