Have your insulin at the ready…
I have to think that intimation of death expressed itself, not only in the courage and dignity with which he went about his own business, but in his considerate treatment of others, even his adversaries. How could it not? Much of the preposterousness of politics stems from the participants’ lunatic enlargement of the stakes, the “this is war” mentality with which they justify to themselves each appalling act. How childish these games must seem, when you are fighting for your life.
Indeed, it must.
It’s hypocrites like Jack Layton who are collectively responsible for elevating Canada’s “universal” health care system into an obscene sacred cow that inflicts delayed treatment and premature death on faceless, nameless, uncelebrated Canadians each and every year.
And may he and his pal Tommy rot in hell for it.
No, it’s just that there’s no point arguing with idiots like you, who think that linking to an article in the NP trumps numerous international studies.
Yes Phantom, the quality of the trolls has dropped dramatically. Ken is quite right that the only countries that have similar medical systems to Canada are Cuba and N. Korea. Every other country in the world allows people to purchase health care.
This fact seems little known, even among some of the leftist doctors that seem to think the Canadian system is the best in the world. I love to point out that the European countries, which they consider superior to the redneck Americans, have private healthcare.
Thanks Loki, good on you incidentally for those hours you’re putting in.
Iberia, I see you turning away from the reality of the situation you yet again. I didn’t link to the NP story to show that Canadian healthcare is backward. It isn’t backward, its overloaded.
I linked the article to show that if you need something other than the general government issue we have here, you cannot -buy- it. You have to leave the f-ing country altogether, and go buy it elsewhere. At crushing expense, I might add.
Furthermore, the service mentioned in the article CANNOT BE OFFERED IN CANADA. They can’t open a clinic in Moosejaw and do those procedures privately, its ILLEGAL. I cannot -buy- an MRI machine in a truck and drive it around to all the hospitals in Ontario that don’t have an MRI, or which have months long waiting lists. Its -illegal- to offer that service.
You can quote all the studies you want, nothing is going to change about that. And that is the crux of the issue.
Your ongoing refusal to face up to it tells me you value a political policy above human life. You are in fact quite happy for people to die from the policy, so long as they do it where you can’t see them. Like in the back hallway of Princess Margaret hospital’s emerge.
This is a common value among your peers of the Left, shared in full by Jack! Layton and Pierre Trudeau. If I had my way, every one of you Medicare-loving sons of b1tches would spend several hundred hours “volunteering” in hospital emergency rooms, watch The System kill and mangle people for a while and experiencing personal burn-out. Why should doctors and nurses have all the fun, eh?
Let me know if a relative gets sick Iberia, I know a couple guys. I’ll see if my milk of human kindness extends to putting in a good word for you with the keepers of the waiting list. That’s how things work in your universe right? Gotta have “friends” because money’s no good.
Why is it that I can get an MRI on my dog today but must wait 6 mo. for one on me.
a@c, I looked into it. It seemed like a nice business to be in. Turns out, its rigged.
The smaller reason is that MRI machines must be licensed. There are only a certain number of licenses, you have to buy one of them from the guy who owns it if you want to have an MRI machine for use on humans.
A vet can just buy an MRI, they aren’t that expensive. Thousands, not millions.
Question then is, -why- won’t the Ontario government issue more licenses? Answer, because medical imaging is a COST to the system. They have to pay money every time somebody gets an MRI, so they limit the number that can be done by limiting the licenses.
The vet -gets- money for every MRI.
Furthermore, MRIs document disease! So if you get an MRI and it shows you need a procedure, that just generated even more COST to the system. If you keel over dead undiagnosed, it doesn’t cost them anything.
The vet -gets- money from a new diagnosis.
And that is why your dog can get an MRI today, but you have to wait six months.
For anyone interested in reality, here are some stats (yes, year 2007 whatever):
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934556.html
US way out in highest health care per capita costs, just over 90% higher than Canada, though Luxembourg running a decent 2nd. We have a demographic health tusanami headed our way and private health care right along with it.
Iberia, give your head a shake.