Hey Look, We Saved Healthcare…

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 51 Comments

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Maclean’s-  State of Emergency: Inside Canada’s ER Crisis

A few months ago, a middle-aged woman in seemingly fine health came to my ER, feeling under the weather. She had called her family doctor, but he was booked up and couldn’t see her for six weeks. I treated her instead, and when I pulled up her records, I saw a recent scan ordered by that same doctor, the results of which she hadn’t yet learned: cancer, already too advanced to cure. It wasn’t just one tumour; they were everywhere. It was up to me to tell her she had a handful of months, at most, and she should start getting her affairs in order.

51 Replies to “Hey Look, We Saved Healthcare…”

  1. When oh when are we finally going to come to grips with the fact that 500,000 new immigrants every year, many of them aged, as well as thousands upon thousands of added refugees yearly,are causing a giant strain on our medical system.

    2. The premier of BC got throat cancer and got surgery within days. Not one of the MLA’s in the province are without a gp and they lecture us about two tier healthcare.

    3. never because those are votes for the LIE-BERALS…..yes, it’s as simple as that….

  2. Lineups, wait lists and rationing. Features, not bugs, of centrally planned medicine.

    Look at how much the central planners saved by not treating this woman!

    1. Precisely. In centrally planned medicine, every patient, every bed, every meal, every pair of gloves, every aspirin, is a cost to be reckoned with.

      1. It’s worse than that. I had prostrate cancer. Operated on and removed. Six month checks with blood work confirm I have been free of cancer for several years now. During “covid” years I did the blood work and because of “covid” my doctor would call me with lab results. This was the norm for two years, 5 minute phone call saying all is well. Just a month ago I was asked to come in person for the interview. So I ask him direct …. why you cannot tell me over the phone, like we we have been doing for the last two years ….. instead of me driving and spending fuel dollars …….. let alone my time … his answer was $$. During the 2 year covid scam he was being subsidized ….. now he needed me to spend my time and money to see him in person to get the same fee. Something very wrong with that mindset and system of medicine.

  3. “Nailed to its perch”.
    Our “Free Health Care” is run using “Yes Minister” as the operating manual.
    When will taxpayers admit that treatment infinitely postphoned,rebooked and held up is no different from no treatment at all.

    That we pay for a lie?
    Accidentally withheld care is no different than openly denied care.
    Can’t get treatment or even a decent diagnoses..but our ever helpful bureaus can recommend You embrace being murdered by their minions….
    And we must pay…

    1. Yes Minister and its follow up Yes Prime Minister.
      I loved those 2 Brit shows on PBS.
      Nigel Hawthorne played the manderin to perfection.

  4. I went to the only walk in clinic left in my area this morning at 7:45 am to line up. It opens at 8 and by 9 two people had made it past the covid checkpoint so I gave up. I haven’t seen a doctor in years and probably won’t until I’m deathly ill.

    There’s no way to get a gp here. I did manage to get my son looked at a couple months ago for a UTI infection after waiting 8 hours in the ER. If I didn’t live on an island I’d just get a US gp and be done with it.

  5. I notice that the MacLeans article never mentions the suspension of unvaccinated doctors or nurses exacerbating the shortage.

    1. that is a big issue as well as the Drs that died because they were forced to take the EXPERIMENTAL JAB……..

    2. And it doesn’t mention that the government recently PAID doctors to go electronic with all their records. (Dr. Charles Hoffe speaks about this.) So everybody’s records got loaded up to the BIG CLOUD, and the woman’s gp felt no responsibility to talk to her about her illness. He knew she’d show up somewhere and get the news.

    3. I noticed that too Aviator, deafening silence on all the nurses and doctors fired for not taking the experimental jabs, also no mention of the over 80 Doctors who have died from SADS. I bet those nurses who “slipped away” to the private agencies had to do that to stay employed. The province deserves a lot of blame just not only for what they are claiming, the good news is that they can all get hired back if they move to Alberta, and they would be on the right side of the border if seperation does happen!

    4. Of course.
      1- They don’t exist, according to media and government.
      2- If they do, they are crazy people and unco-operative, according to media and government.
      3- They are plague rats and vermin, a danger to all, according to media and government.

      Our governments, are incompetent, ideological, and defiant despite the Covid narrative being destroyed. Tyrants gonna tyrant!

      Clearly, our health “authorities” are happy to torture the population, and build up the union payrolls, while they play pin the tail on the donkey with each other.

      A housecleaning is required at the federal and provincial levels, unfortunately, the vast majority of Canadians response is still “We have the best health care system in the world”. Clown Country.

    5. “I notice that the MacLeans article never mentions the suspension of unvaccinated doctors or nurses exacerbating the shortage.”

      The Narrative must be protected at all costs.

    1. You are absolutely right. The vet bills aren’t cheap but at least the care is available. I’m in a rural area but I have at least ten vet clinics within half an hours drive.

    2. Ha Ha …. I used to say that to the wife about our dog …. amazing service no matter how serious or minor the problem was.
      And vets are better than human doctors too since they have to be able to cure cows, dogs, canaries etc.

    2. I thought only American health care caused people to rack up huge medical bills. It’s the number one thing people say about how evil our system is. What happened to free?

    1. I had a feeling he sold off our gold reserves to China.
      Its not confirmed but it makes sense.
      Now he sells off our resources and the mineral/land rights to China.
      Makes us beggars in our own land.
      China will have us by the balls soon, just need to clear us off the land and it is fait acompli .

      Bastardo traitor needs the Romanian treatment.

  11. Here’s What Happened to the Couple Caught Trying to Sell U.S. Nuclear Secrets
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/11/10/couple-receives-long-prison-sentences-for-trying-to-sell-u-s-nuclear-secrets-n1644836

    “At one point, the Toebbes told their foreign contacts that they had their passports ready and were eager to leave the country, in part because they feared for their lives but also because they were opposed to the Trump administration.“

  12. Canadian’s have chosen this health care system.

    Don’t like it? Make it THE election issue. Don’t vote for politicians who will spend money on day care, diversity pronouns, infrastructure that never seems to get built.

    The US spent $10,948 per person per year on Health care.
    Canada spent $5,370.

    See figure 7.4 for other countries:

    https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/154e8143-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/154e8143-en

    Want better health care? Cough up the money, and elect politicians who won’t waste your money. Get involved. Get out the vote.

    1. joe, ya can’t just throw more money at the problem in the hopes it will go away.

      During the pandemic AHS received an additional $4 million specifically for additional ICU beds. At $1000 per, should have added 4000 beds. Instead, ICU bed count dropped. WTF happened to the money?

      The biggest problem with health care specifically in Alberta (and I suspect generally across Canada) is that it is middle & top management heavy. It needs to be gutted & the money saved passed down to those in the trenches: nurses, doctors & support staff.

      The second biggest problem is that patients are viewed as expenses, not profits. Each hospital is given a yearly budget & every body passing through costs them a piece of that budget.

      And, WTF is with a nearly $300k “Covid” bonus for that ugly bitch, Hinshaw?! What would she have been paid if she got it correct?

  15. When you pay for a product or service and don’t receive said product or service, you have some recourse.
    In Canadian Health Care your recourse is pain, suffering and death.

    Two tier health, two or three or even four-tiered justice, multi-tiered taxation = Failed, Shithole Country.

      1. Exactly.

        And people support the system because it is a system.

        There is no reasoning about it.

  17. A cat was mentioned above.
    Big difference. You… the owner gets the bill.
    With “people kind” it is true too. The owner gets the bill. However An owner that faces no personal consequences for the service.

    1. I may have to cultivate a certain relationship with my large animal vet.
      He may be able to treat me faster and with better care than my non exisistant doctor.
      Get some basic antibiotics, heavy pain killers and some horse paste.
      It will cost me a few shekels but better than waiting 10 hours at Emerg.
      Maybe I can teach myself basic surgery like sewing myself up after some cuts and wounds.
      Youtube University here I come.

  18. One of the biggest reasons for the present problems is our “leaders” use our health system as a major characteristic of our national identity (the UK and their NIH has a similar problematic mythology). This is used to claim a moral superiority over the US.

    As the article points out, our problems have been a long time coming, These problems were sure to be seen when the boomers came into their later years, exacerabted by many doctors also coming into their retirement years at the same time, and would have happened even if Covid and the miserable response to it hadn’t occurred (it just moved up the timeline) . To prevent this, long term planning and investment were required, but alas were not done. It would have also required at least prioritizing gov’t expenditures (good luck with that) and more likely higher taxes (I guess politically impossible) so we would have had facilities and trained staff for today, or a switch to a real two-tier system, which is impossible because of that Canadian mythology thing stated above.

    William Gairdner wrote about our health system in a book I read a long time ago, and identified way more than 2 tiers – https://williamgairdner.ca/canadas-multi-tiered-medical-system/

    1. Stevie

      Unfortunately we can’t even have a discussion about improving health care in this country without special interests screaming “You’re trying to have a US system”.

      And those who scream the loudest, are queue jumpers like Horgan.

    2. Precisely.

      We can kill people to save money but God forbid we should make money.

      Like, doctors should work for free.

  19. Did the doctors offer her government-sponsored suicide? Isn’t that standard practice for anyone too bothersome to treat? Do your patriotic duty – off yourself so the state doesn’t have to waste scarce resources treating you! Remember, it’s not a crime if a Trudeau-approved Murder Doctor kills you!

  20. Same lies and horse manure. “Nurses and doctors” died because of Covid. No they didn’t, not more than anyone else. “Patients overflowing into parking lots”. More lies. I went past Sunnybrook often – the parking lots were completely empty, and the massive ’emergency overflow’ facility built at McMaster in Hamilton was never used.

    Funny too that the increases at OHIP all go to administrators and clerks and custodians, and not to doctors and nurses.

  21. Health care has become one of the biggest Left guilt trip weapons in their bag of guilt trips.

    In my State election here in Oz the (left) party that won bragged constantly about how they were going to fix Ambulance Ramping. A week before election day the Electoral Commission told them they didn’t have the power to advertise on that and that they needed to remove all campaigning information but by then the message was out.

    (irony – the left unions more or less controlled the ambulances, not the State Government. Irony 2: months after the election… we still have ramping issues.)

    I don’t know about the other health systems but franking the UK attitude of Save the NHS was sickening to me (pun not intended).

    What they were saying is that the ‘structure’ of the NHS was more important than the people it was built to protect. Think about that. In order to protect an intuition, the government, with the willing support of the people, were willing to effectively give their lives so that a HEALTH care system would remain.

    That is vile.

    The purpose of a health care system is to, by blatant definition, provide health care. When the time comes the system should be there to rise up and keep the population safe even if it costs then their last bandaid. In fact if it is not prepared to fight to the last bandaid to keep people alive then it is not a system you should be part of.

    Think about it – what do you want? A proud but empty building surrounded by a sea of the dead? Or a hoard of survivors rebuilding a building for the next generation.

    Sorry but if you see any pride in having ‘Saved the NHS’ you are morally and ethically rooted.

  22. It is odd. Our Health Care experts have quickly pivoted from “taking the vaccine will save our health care system from collapse” to “our health care system is collapsing”. Do they not know the story about ‘chicken little’?

  23. HSAA would have you believe it’s all the UCP’s fault. Yet the only thing the Dippers did was ban menthol cigarettes when they had the controls.
    The AHS senior bureaucrats and management have been the ones screwing things up all along. No politician, UCP or Dipper, is doing anything about it.
    HSAA are just a bunch of Dipper cheerleaders.

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