In Canada You May Die Waiting For Care, But Enjoy This Web Site

IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 11/18/2010 | David Hogberg

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The Commonwealth Fund has another one of its surveys showing how health care in the U.S. is so much worse when compared with so many other nations.

A debate on what health care system is best is well worth having. But it’s hard to take such a debate seriously when the senior vice president for the Commonwealth Fund, Cathy Schoen, makes remarks like this:

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The idea of dying while waiting for ones turn on a waiting list is so civilized. The key is to give it no thought at all. Even a young planaria would see the contradiction.

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From the article. Or is it from The Onion? How can one tell?

Kevin Falcon, minister of health services in British Columbia, is a proud bureaucrat: “We’ve been recognized by groups like the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Wait Times Alliance as leaders in Canada in reducing surgical waits for key priority areas. The new wait times Web site will build on our success, giving patients more control over their surgical options by letting them see and compare surgery wait times from every hospital across British Columbia.”