Best Health Care System in the World

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 46 Comments

Vitor Marciano: Alberta’s fourth wave exposes how little capacity Canada’s hospitals actually have

As I write this, Alberta, Canada’s richest province, the one that spends the most per capita on health care, is watching its provincewide system be brought to the edge of collapse. The intensive care units of Alberta’s hospitals (all of them) are currently filled with almost twice the number of ICU patients Alberta has ever had. The Alberta Medical Association says the province is facing a “life and death” situation.

COVID-19 has put about 24 people per 100,000 Albertans in hospital over the past week or so. Roughly a quarter are in an intensive care unit bed. Now this isn’t 24 people per 1,000. It is a very sparse 24 people per 100,000 and it is overwhelming Alberta’s hospitals and causing the province’s centrally run health system to pull every lever possible to increase ICU capacity. It likely won’t be enough.

No American state could imagine implementing ICU triage protocols at only 24 hospitalizations per 100,000, but the richest province in Canada is facing this.

The myth is having a long overdo collision with reality.

46 Replies to “Best Health Care System in the World”

  1. A flat out manufactured crisis.

    Drop the BS of Mandatory Vax for those who have worked there for 2 years suffering ZERO I’ll effects and boom, situation bk to where it’s always been….for at least 20 years:

    Full Hospitals and nearly always, full ICU’S

    EMERGENCY MY (_I_)

    This is 100% on purpose – Pure Fear Porn to continue their Totalitarian Campaign.

    1. I find amusing when the leftist LIES come crashing hard into one another.

      LIE #1: The GREATEST healthcare system in the world!
      LIE #2: COVID is making EVERYONE deadly ill

      OOPS! Lie #2 came crashing hard into Lie #1

      1. Anyone want to bet that most trained National Guard medical soldiers already work in hospitals. I’m guessing that if you pull National Guard troops off their regular job to work as scabs, the Guard will get a lot smaller. As if sending them to die in foreign wars in shithole countries didn’t decimate the Guard sufficiently? I thought the point of the National Guard was to guard the nation, not political bullshit.

  2. On a related note, I heard a radio news item today in Ottawa that we can expect an extremely bad flu season this year, after last year of no flu.

    Of course, they are just rehearsing lies and excuses and preparing us for more lockdowns; because, you know the health care system is more important than health care.

    1. Robert, that last line sais it all.

      “ There are 3 kinds of people in the world that can count ….. those who can and those that can’t”

      Dave Ramaswamy quote on with DR Gina at Real America’s News the other day. Last year no flu issues this year look out we are in for crisis of epic proportions.

      bverwey

  3. A friend of mine is fond of using this example – what if we only had one grocery store chain in the nation and everyone had to buy from them.
    What would the selection be like, what would the service be like and what would the prices be like?

    As for nearing year two of the plandemic – still no government protocols on early treatment with readily available cheap theraputics, which would clear a lot of this up. But then we wouldn’t need vacc passes would we.

    1. Easy ask any resident of the USSR prior to its demise what grocery stores were like. We soon will see what it was like.

    2. The governments have sales quotas to meet for expensive not_vaccines that don’t even work.

  4. I honestly expected them to give up blockading the theraputics at this point. It’s amazing how evil politicians can be for 30 pieces of silver.

    1. Dan S, I agree … it’s all about control and $$$. Therapeutics stand in the way of a logical alternative at far less cost is why.

      bverwey

  5. Soviet medicine. Infrastructure is driven by politically directed budgets, not actual consumer demand. You would need a price system for that and we don’t have one.

  6. In Quebec, I waited for 18 hours.
    I’ve spent a few days of my life on a gurney in a corridor, for nothing but some chest pains.
    On average, the American system is better.

    1. 310 Albertans in ICU with covid. 4,444,277 people in Alberta. This works out to 7 per 100,000.

      172 Ontarians in ICU with covid. 14,733,119 people in Ontario. This works out to 1.2 per 100,000.

      Statistically, covid is not even a runny nose. As for ICUs it appears as though the number of ICUs is set just slightly higher than the number of people in ICUs to keep costs down. If you get an extra 100 people requiring an ICU then a crisis has suddenly emerged.

      Alberta has almost 6,000 acute car beds (ACBs). To upgrade to ICUs you need some extra equipment and more staff. The Province is currently funded for about 1,500 ICUs. The need for 310 has created a crisis.

      What is happening to Canada? I’m reminded of the Star Trek episode where the 2 planets switched from real killing to computer killing and thousands of people had to report to the termination pods – and they did – willingly.

    3. Well isin’t this ENTIRE BS SHITSHOW predicated on RE PCR….the one that provides near 85% FALSE Positives..??

      Do the math folks… they say 24/100K.
      Reality is more likely 3-4/100K
      typical…..All what these Filthy Govt Ratfucks are doing is COMPLETELY destroying any credibility they ever had with a significant portion of the population….the sheep..?? pah, let them graze, most wont be around in 2-3 years.

  8. This fully lies at the feet of Kenney the Klown.

    2 years to fix the problem, and ZERO action taken, and then blames those that decided not to take the vaccine. Klown school Homecoming Queen, was the top of his career, only gone downhill since then!

  9. Population of Alberta 4.4Million, thats 1056 hospitalized Coviders. But they are not all in ICU and not all seriously ill, but recuperating. Others may be in there WITH covid, rather than because of it. Of these, apparently 226 are in ICU with a total number of 350 ICU beds with another 84 in ICU (as of 23 September 2021) https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2021/09/23/even-with-surge-spaces-icu-beds-nearing-capacity-in-alberta-mostly-with-covid-patients/

    What is a normal ICU per population ratio? In Alberta, it’s roughly one per 12,600 people

  10. The way to efficiently manage health care is to meet demand with supply. Your icu should always be at 80 percent capacity or you have too many beds (which are staffed). Not much different than a hotel. You don’t want 300 rooms and only fill 50. The problem currently is that demand has spiked so quickly that there is no ability to increase the supply at the same speed.

    1. That excuse might have held up 19 months ago. Did Covid disappear sometime since then? Did the central planners of the 200,000 employee leviathan (AHS) not observe that pandemic infections come in waves? The reality is that central planning is just as messed up at health care delivery as it is at agriculture, car manufacturing, and tourism. The AHS, with its political crony appointee management, fat administration, politicized and fat unions, and permanent revolving door of sociopath politicians of all parties deluded or consciously deceitful in their belief in effectively managing a hopeless bureaucracy – is no better than its less well funded neighbours for all that extra per capita funding. You don’t reform health care communism, you eliminate it, something that is against federal law in Canada. Why would anyone be surprised that a health care system comparable only to North Korea and Cuba, known the world over for its long wait times not be similarly ill equipped to handle a moderately serious pandemic? Its a feature not a bug.

    2. Not really. Alberta has almost 6,000 critical care beds and 1,500 ICU funded units. The number of covid patients is 310. The average number of ICUs in Alberta is 340. Someone is lying big time. I don’t know what the answer is – maybe too many nurses not vaccinated.

  12. As if Canadians are in any way capable of asking such questions about their precious Medicare. This is a people who have venerated Tommy Douglas as akin to a saint. No, for us it’s lockdowns, passports, and vaccines, forever.

    I admit some bafflement about why Canada utterly refuses to investigate cheap therapies such as ivermectin. I can only chalk it up to Health Canada being too joined at the hip to the FDA/CDC to dare cross them.

    1. A friend of mine observed that in the US, the fake crisis was a way of bringing down Trump, akin to the way the left made Bush II wear the Iraq War. Here in Canada, he opined, it was a way of hiding the fact that the health care system is a steaming pile of shit and can’t handle even a mild surge in cases.

  13. 24 per 100,000 hospitalized this week. That’s 0.024% of the population. At this feverish rate it will take 80 years before we’re all hospitalized with Covid. Meantime, cancer will put far more people, a much bigger percentage, in hospital in the next 80 years.

    Some pandemic.

  15. Serious question: Did any of the provinces add ICU spots?

    I see all sorts of ‘going to increase ICU beds’ stories but not much else.

  16. I am currently in Acute Care in an Albert hospital. I have ALS and my condition means I cannot stay in my home. The long term care facilities are all on lockdown over covid results.
    My ” roommate is a 92 year old with a broken back and cannot live at home either. We have both been here almost a month.

    Neither of us have covid, and were tested since arrival here.

    We sit taking up beds for no real good reason.

  17. Oh dear, there are six districts in Saskatchewan with no open ICU beds because of Covid.

    Actually, those six districts have no ICU beds at all.

    CTV Edmonton:
    “WATCH: Six health regions in the province facing full ICU beds as COVID-19 related hospitalizations rise. Alison MacKinnon has the details.
    ======
    There are no ICU beds available in the Far North West, Far North Central, Far North East, North West, Central West or South East. The province said these regions have never had ICU capacity.”

    CTV pulled the clip.
    duckduckgo: ‘Sask no ICU beds 6 districts’

  18. Suggest they contact Mexico. Mexico City was able to bring their Covid hospitalizations way down by prescribing Ivermectin for those testing positive.

  20. I Twittered about a week ago that our healthcare system is like a 20 year old bald tire.

    I stand by my opinion.

  21. 3544 doctors, nurses, and front line workers sign an open letter to the communist politburo in edmonstan….. they will quit if november 1 mandate is forced on them…… hmmmmm, ivermectin anyone?

  23. Canada has a higher vaccination rate than Sweden (71% vs 64%), and Canada has also had much stricter lock-down rules than Sweden (which, btw, just yesterday removed essentially all remaining restrictions/recommendations).

    Yet, today the covid related ICU rate (per capita) is approximately 300% higher in Canada vs Sweden, and covid related hospitalization rate is approximately 100% higher in Canada vs Sweden,

    So, us forced vaccinations the solution? Is draconian lock-downs the solution?

  24. More non-Canada health care system observations:

    Happen to live in Czechia now, and had a non-emergency medical situation that needed attention. Called my doctor’s office, got an appointment the next day, all taken care of now, at no extra charge.

    (And, btw, none of the nurses & doctors wore masks… just us patients.)

    1. I made the mistake of watching an episode of Below Deck Mediterranean and ever since I’ve been bombarded with Facebook ads for Croatia’s digital nomad passport. I’m seriously considering it.

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