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Posted on 06/08/2026 12:24:40 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Roseanne Milburn, 61, of Winnipeg, had a routine procedure turn into an amputation โ not because the surgery failed, but because Canadaโs government-run system couldnโt find her a bed.
A surgeon at Winnipegโs Health Sciences Centre removed dead tissue from her knee, then sent her to Concordia Hospital with the plan to bring her back that same day so a specialist could stitch the wound (CBC News). She was never brought back.
There was no bed at HSC. So she sat at Concordia with an ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ, waiting for the system to make room.
As the video narrator put it: โ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข. ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ข, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ณ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ-๐ง๐ญ๐ถ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ-๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ. ๐๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข.โ By the time a bed opened, the wound had rotted past saving. The doctors told her the leg couldnโt be salvaged. On a Friday in December, Roseanne Milburn lost her ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ โ over a missing hospital bed. This is not a freak accident. It is the predictable output of a system that rations care by making people wait.
In 2025, the median Canadian waited ๐๐.๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ from a GP referral to actual treatment (Fraser Institute). For orthopedic surgery โ the exact category Milburn needed โ the median wait is ๐๐.๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ. Nearly a full year. By design.
That is 222 percent longer than the 9.3-week wait Canadians faced in 1993 (Fraser Institute). The system isnโt getting better. Itโs getting slower โ and the waiting list itself becomes the rationing mechanism. Defenders call it โ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆโ. It is not free. Roseanne Milburn paid for it. She paid with her leg. Every politician selling โ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ญ๐ญโ is selling this โ the bed that never opens, the specialist who never comes, the wound that turns black while a bureaucrat shuffles a list.
๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ก๐๐.
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One of the most prescient and forward looking statements in American political history.
W are now learning that the biggest cost in free healthcare is the loss of doctors and competent health care providers.
The day of the Doctor - Patient relationship is long gone and effective healthcare is fading into the past.
The much vaunted Brit, Cuban and Canadian NHS systems that were touted by liberals as models for the US to emulate are melting down into dysfunction.
Is this what democRATs have in mind for our healthcare system in the USA?
It would be funny if it weren’t so true!...............
Somebody asked her what do you do at an NFL game when they play the national anthem?
She said “Take a Knee!”
So they did.............
I have EXCELLENT care at the University of Washington in Seattle. I’d be long gone without them.
Sometimes Healthcare costs an arm and a leg. This time it was a leg. Our hospital is dominated by drug addicts taking up all the beds. My wife had a serious heart problem and we waited hours before somebody died or was released.
In America, you get the treatment you need ... Then your insurance company knocks the $67,000 bill to only the $10,000 “reasonable and customary rate” .... Then you pay 80% ... up to your annual maximum out of pocket expenses. If the hospital is “in network”.
In socialist medicine countries, you die.
Government provided healthcare is like a Chinese restaurant:
You can cover every body.
You can cover everything.
You can have inexpensive healthcare.
You can only pick two of those three.
My Canadian mother-in-law just gave up on getting a hip.
All those changes are happening in America too - and here it isnโt even free.
Same here - UW hospital and Fred Hutch are the best.
“A surgeon at Winnipegโs Health Sciences Centre removed dead tissue from her knee, then sent her to Concordia Hospital with the plan to bring her back that same day so a specialist could stitch the wound (CBC News). She was never brought back.”
O.K, I’ll ask, Why was a different specialist needed to stitch the wound? It can’t be because the surgeon was unqualified. It must be due to some sort of rule that breaks down what procedures may be performed under certain licenses that every procedure requires multiple specialists.
Next question, Why didn’t the patient try to find alternate transportation? She probably had a some idea of how likely it was that the plans to bring her back to the original hospital might go tails up.
The same type of situation could happen in the U.S. only difference is that a non-Medicaid patient here would not think any of it was “free”.
I disagree with the premise of the quote. Canada long ago turned into a third-world Hellhole when it comes to healthcare. This is just one more example.
I guess she was lucky they didnโt try to suicide her! Holy crap.
NUKE UTTERLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL GOV'T HEALTHCARE AKA DEATH PROTOCOL!!!
The best and least costly healthcare in the world is DIRECTLY between the doctor and the patient!!!
“By the time a bed opened, the wound had rotted past saving.”
Something does not make sense.
The article reads she had an open surgical wound for eight days. Was the wound not tended to that whole time? No debridement, no cleaning, no antibiotics? Even without getting stitches all of the above should have been done. If the infection was so deep that normal wound care was not effective stitching the wound would not have prevented infection. My guess is that the patient was diabetic which made it more difficult for the wound to heal.
The article wants you to conclude she died because of the long wait. Given the information I doubt stitching the wound the same day would have made any difference and probably would have made things worse. You want to make sure a infection that is not just on the surface can drain.
The article does not read what she had done (At least the excerpt posted) but I would guess it was a knee replacement. That surgery is not as simple and benign as surgeons and hospitals would have you believe.
There is nothing “free” about Canadian health care and there are good reasons why Canadians cross the border to get healthcare in the U.S. but what happened to Milburn could have happened in a U.S. hospital given the high rate of post surgical infections.
After the system collapses - which is a lot sooner than you imagine - I have no idea what either of the two new parties will come up with.
Iโm sure when the system fails it will be taking both the Democrats and the GOP with it - because the cause of the system failure is shared equally between them.
I have also had great care at UW/Fred Hutch.
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