Saturday, June 11, 2005
You Heard it Here First: The Canadian Health Care System SUCKS
If you are a devoted Jooboite, and keep up on this column on a regular basis, you will note how often the ridiculous Canadian health care system comes under examination by us and, ultimately, ridicule, much like everything else in Canada.
So, if you read enough of the story - from the leftwing British rag The Guardian - you will see how bad things really are in the Great Scummy North:
Quebec Private Health Insurance Ban Nixed
These are the same "critics" who tried to force this nightmarish system onto the United States a decade ago.
But, here is the most hilarious part of this story:
If I hear one more liberal ever say that Canada has a better health care system than the United States, I think that we should exile this cretin to Canada and force them to undergo medical treatment there, and there alone.
Wanna bet they come running back after a week?
If you are a devoted Jooboite, and keep up on this column on a regular basis, you will note how often the ridiculous Canadian health care system comes under examination by us and, ultimately, ridicule, much like everything else in Canada.
So, if you read enough of the story - from the leftwing British rag The Guardian - you will see how bad things really are in the Great Scummy North:
Quebec Private Health Insurance Ban Nixed
TORONTO (AP) - Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Quebec law that banned private insurance for services covered under Medicare, a landmark decision that could affect the country's universal health-care system.
The justices took a year to rule on a case that began in 1997, when George Zeliotis, an elderly Montreal man, tried to pay for hip replacement surgery rather than wait nearly a year for treatment at a public hospital.
Zeliotis told the high court that he suffered pain and became addicted to painkillers during the yearlong wait for surgery, and he should have been allowed to pay for faster service with private insurance.
"It is indeed a historical ruling that could substantially change the very foundations of Medicare as we know it,'' said Dr. Albert J. Schumacher, president of the Canadian Medical Association.
Although the ruling was made on the Quebec law, it likely will affect other Canadian provinces that forbid residents from buying private health care insurance for treatment under the country's Medicare system.
Opponents of changes to Medicare claimed it could force Canada into a two-tiered health care system in which those who have deeper pockets get faster, better service from doctors who opt out of the public health-care program.
These are the same "critics" who tried to force this nightmarish system onto the United States a decade ago.
But, here is the most hilarious part of this story:
But the universal health-care system - while considered one of the fairest in the world - has been plagued by long waiting lists and a lack of doctors, nurses and new equipment. Some patients wait years for surgery, MRI machines are scarce and many Canadians travel to the United States for medical treatment.
In most Canadian provinces, it is illegal to seek faster treatment and jump to the head of the line by paying out of pocket for public care. Private health clinics have sprouted up even though they are technically illegal, though the provincial governments tend to look the other way.
If I hear one more liberal ever say that Canada has a better health care system than the United States, I think that we should exile this cretin to Canada and force them to undergo medical treatment there, and there alone.
Wanna bet they come running back after a week?
