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Skriven 2005-06-21 06:09:22 av JOHNJWILSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN HESS
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-> Don't believe hype about Canadian health care model
-> 
->
And don't believe the crap by 
->Steve Chapman
-> 

The Supreme court of Canada said to the United States?

Bull.

has such serious flaws that it is
-> violating constitutional rights and must be fundamentally changed. And
the
-> flaws are part of the basic structure of Canada's health care policy.
->
I'd like to know just what those flaws are. I've been the recipient of a
TON of health scare
in the last thirty years up here...

None of what I've read here makes any sense at all.

 
-> The dirty secret of the system is that universal access is no guarantee
of
-> treatment. Sick Canadians spend months and even years on waiting lists
for
-> surgery and other procedures.

This is an obvious lie.



-> 
-> In 1993, the average wait to see a specialist after getting a doctor's
referral
-> was nine weeks.

Bull.


 Since then, according to the Fraser Institute of Vancouver, it
-> has increased to 18 weeks.
->
The day ones believe the Fraser institute (A right-wing spouter of
doctrinaire flab.)
 
-> The typical patient needing orthopedic surgery has time to get pregnant
and
-> deliver a baby before being called...

I've been twice with no delay.

 The Supreme Court cited the testimony of
-> one orthopedic surgeon that 95 percent of patients in Canada waited over
a year
-> for knee replacements -

ONE Ortho Dr. Speaks for all of Canada. Not bloody likely.


 with many of them in limbo for two years.

Oh sure.



-> Court put it: "Patients die as a result of waiting lists for public
health
-> care."
->
I'd like to see the cite. I doubt it.
 
-> Not only does the government subject its citizens to painful and even
fatal
-> delays in the public system, it bars them from seeking alternatives in
the
-> private market. You see, it's illegal for private insurers to pay for
services
-> covered by the public system.

Which pisses off the Fraser Institute, and all those who think health care
should be a profitable enterprise.


->...The single-payer approach,
-> for example, is often held up as the only way to simultaneously control
costs
-> and deliver quality care. In fact, Canada has somehow managed to do
neither.

Happily Canada has somehow managed to do both.

I do wish people would stop lying about Canada.
The medical system is....is...socialistic! (Heavens!)
.

-> 
-> After adjusting for the age of the population, the Fraser Institute
compared 27
-> countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
that
-> guarantee universal access to health care. By some mysterious alchemy,
Canada
-> has proportionately fewer physicians than most of these nations but
spends more
-> on health care than any except Iceland.

How about a damn FACT for a change? -------


Canada spends less than the United States on Health care...and we do not
have 42 million people without health insurance!

 
-> Steve Chapman is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune...

The lying bastard should be whipped to death.
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