Posted on 07/18/2009 5:17:42 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
My health-care prejudices crumbled not in the classroom but on the way to one. On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute. Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care. I soon discovered that the problems went well beyond overcrowded ERs. Patients had to wait for practically any diagnostic test or procedure, such as the man with persistent pain from a hernia operation whom we referred to a pain clinic—with a three-year wait list; or the woman needing a sleep study to diagnose what seemed like sleep apnea, who faced a two-year delay; or the woman with breast cancer who needed to wait four months for radiation therapy, when the standard of care was four weeks.
I decided to write about what I saw. By day, I attended classes and visited patients; at night, I worked on a book. Unfortunately, statistics on Canadian health care’s weaknesses were hard to come by, and even finding people willing to criticize the system was difficult, such was the emotional support that it then enjoyed. One family friend, diagnosed with cancer, was told to wait for potentially lifesaving chemotherapy.
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Coming to America.
In all likelihood worse.
Don’t go to the hospital. Die at home, it’s cheaper. /sarc
been posted a few times lately. Great article. Needs posting at KOS, DU, HUFF and Yahoo! Answers
I’m on Yahoo Answers political section a lot. I’m posting this over there.
Are we really going to buy this POS idea?
I have been active for a few days but am getting tired of it
You nor anybody else in this country have any choice.........This is being rammed thru just like a prison love-in and neither your congressmen nor senators really care.
Ok, let me rephrase my question.
Does this POS really have the votes in congress?
Great read. Thanks.
I don't know but given the arrogance of our present politicians today, it wouldn't surprise me that it does indeed pass..........
>On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute. Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care. I soon discovered that the problems went well beyond overcrowded ERs<
That’s nothing. Try St Paul’s Hospital in the middle of DT Vancouver BC, Canada. As a former resident of that city, I challenge anyone to go to emergency during Mardi Gras...
Mardi Gras is commonly known as Welfare wednesday when every bum in Vancouver receives their govt check. That means lots of coked up, OD’d homeless people call 911 after they shoot up “incorrectly”. Lots of fun..
The problem with free (!) health care for everybody (!!) is that people are too stupid to figure out that socialized health care is RATIONED health care.
Don't "the forget stupidity of the populace".
No Obamacare for me thank you very much.
I POSTED THAT ARTICLE ON THE 16TH. Regards,
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