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  • More than 74,000 Canadians have died on health-care wait lists since 2018: report

    01/16/2025 6:15:42 AM PST · by george76 · 37 replies
    National Post ^ | Jan 15, 2025 | Sharon Kirkey
    At least 15,474 Canadians died in 2023-24 alone before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. The true number is likely double.. ... 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. ... 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...
  • Bernie Sanders blocked VA Accountability Act [apparently, he refused to read the 3 page bill]

    06/02/2014 6:49:08 PM PDT · by grundle · 10 replies
    azcentral.com (link only) | May 26, 2014 | Charles Lopresto
    link only: http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/letters/2014/05/26/bernie-sanders-blocked-va-accountability-act/9614547/
  • Canada: Hippocrates in the Hallway

    10/02/2009 11:30:55 AM PDT · by Libertas aut Mortis · 12 replies · 758+ views
    National Post ^ | October 02, 2009 | Blazing Cat Fur
    I suppose I should have been tipped off by the fact that the surgeon who performed my 84-year-old Mom's angioplasty on Friday at Toronto General Hospital couldn't be bothered to check up on her afterward. This same surgeon discharged her Saturday morning from TGH - by phone.
  • The High Cost of Free Healthcare

    07/18/2009 1:46:32 PM PDT · by Freedom'sWorthIt · 5 replies · 368+ views
    Dr.Kennedy was a Christian statesman and minister who died last year...but whose ministry and programs continue to beam truth to our troubled nation and world. This interview with a woman from Canada who was losing her eyesight and needed to see specialists and have surgery and her ordeal and eventual use of American healthcare - for which she paid out of pocket - which saved her eyesight and likely her life.
  • Surgery waiting list 'inflated' (Why can't we have a medical system like Canada's?)

    01/12/2005 4:02:30 PM PST · by ColoCdn · 30 replies · 806+ views
    Vancouver Sun ^ | January 12, 2005 | Pamela Fayerman
    "The provincial surgery waiting list website is inaccurate and its numbers inflated because it includes patients who died before surgery and others who are counted more than once. The list is supposed to help patients estimate how long they must wait for surgical procedures, but the B.C. government now says the system, created in 1999, has never worked. The list currently shows a record 80,710 people waiting for operations..."