Posted on 01/16/2025 6:15:42 AM PST by george76
At least 15,474 Canadians died in 2023-24 alone before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. The true number is likely double..
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The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data ... Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba.
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The government health bodies that did respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests represent 62 per cent of the population. “If the findings from the provinces that did give us data are extrapolated across provinces that didn’t, the total rises to closer to 28,000 people,” Craig said.
The report is the latest “Died on a Waiting List” policy brief from SecondStreet since the conservative-leaning organization began tracking wait-list deaths in the spring of 2018. Since then, the think tank has counted 74,677 cases where Canadians passed away while waiting for treatments. These range from potentially life-saving ones, such as heart operations or cancer therapy, to life-enhancing ones, such as cataract surgeries and hip replacements.
Despite historically high levels of health spending across Canada, “It is clear that money alone cannot solve this health care crisis,” according to the report.
“Canadians pay really high taxes and yet our health care system is failing when compared to better-performing universal systems in Europe,” Harrison Fleming, legislative and policy director at SecondStreet, said in a release. “Thousands of Canadians across the country find themselves on wait lists — in some cases for several years — with too many tragically dying before ever getting treated or even diagnosed.”
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It is clear that money alone cannot solve this health care crisis
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Nationally, Canadians are waiting longer than they did in 2019, before the pandemic, for “priority” procedures such as hip and knee replacements and cancer surgeries
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
The wonders of Socialized medicine.
Ain’t national Healthcare great?
No wonder Gates, et al, like their system!..............
We dodged a bullet with that abomination here.
Well that’s life and death these days with all the money going to their global warming/climate change/etc etc etc scams
Working in a hospital we would regularly get Canadians who traveled down to the U.S. and then head into our hospital with the hope of getting a procedure done.
Their socialized medicine put them on wait lists in Canada, so they hoped to get by in the U.S.
Canada insurers always denied their claim. No procedure. Had to be done in Canada.
This is the reality of socialized medicine.
The omission of any comparison to healthcare in the lower 50 speaks volumes as to the ineffectiveness of universal healthcare.
They must save a lot of money by letting people die.
and truedau says they could have done better...and dramatically increased the numbers. not that they didn’t try.
Canadians Flee To U.S. After Doctors Threaten To ‘Unplug’ Their Son And Harvest His Organs..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4289975/posts
Coming soon to America ... especially for old people.
But Canadian health care is free!
This is correct. There are people with Eagle Syndrome that come to the US but if they can’t afford to pay for the surgery they end up going to places like Turkey that are cheaper. People shouldn’t be put in this position to try to get their life back.
But people in the US have a different kind of fight. The fight is with the insurance company to get out of state coverage since so few surgeons do the external surgery.
Canadians faced longest ever health-care wait times in 2024.. a median wait time of 30 weeks ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4285461/posts
depopulation in comes in many forms
All according to plan. I’ll bet hardly any of those were Muslims or illegals, who get priority treatment over citizens
My Albertan mother in law was on a hip replacement list. They took so long just to schedule the testing, she just gave up.
Correct
First, you get hit with up to 33% income tax. Then add in the national sales tax rate of 5%. Then add in the Provincial sales tax (e.g., 13% for Ontario) and you approaching 50% just in sales and income taxes, and that doesn’t count any local taxes that may be in effect. “Free” simply means something/someone else is picking up the cost.
When I was in Hungary, our guide kept saying education and health care were free. I kept saying, in a low voice, “subsidized”. She finally asked what I mean. I asked her what her income tax rate was. She responded 42%. I asked what the national sales tax rate was, and she responded 22%. (She was quick to point out it was only 18% on “outdoor concerts”. WTH??) I then asked if she considered a 64% tax rate which funds her education and health care “Free”? She also admitted that there is an exam to go to college and about half the people don’t pass. So I asked her: If you failed the entrance exam and are healthy, are those things actually “free”?
Crickets...
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