As long as Canada stubbornly adheres to the failed single-payer model for health care, MAID will increasingly become the “go-to” strategy for dealing with waiting lists.
How can you prioritize cases so that people with aggressive stage four cancer get seen by someone and when they do get seen, they get offered treatment and not MAID like I was the first time?”
Thankfully, Allison Ducluzeau was able to get to the United States for effective and timely treatment. Not that the BC government would draw any lessons from that experience, however. Nothing must be allowed to disrupt central planning, apparently.
Ducluzeau is trying to apply to have her medical bills funded by BC Cancer, considering she had to travel out of the province for care. However, the letter states “the services you chose to receive in the U.S. would not have been the recommended treatment for your cancer diagnosis.”
Yep the “recommended treatment” here was go home and die or let us do it now. A lot of boomers are entering into the stage of life where they’re about to learn good and hard the hell they’ve bestowed on us in the form of “public healthcare”. Ain’t it great the bums get it free while you die on a waitlist or told to go home and croak?
It was “the greatest generation” that brought in Medicare in Canada, not boomers. In 1967, there were only about 7 years worth of “boomers” over 21 (1939-1946).
In 2015 there was only about 7 years of morons 21 and over that thought they were voting for legalizing doobies and proportionate representation.
I just checked and ‘Boomers” are from 1946 to1964 which means none of them were of voting age when Medicare was introduced in 1957 and 1966. The Canadian Health care Act “refinement” came in 1984 under the Spawn’s father which had “boomer” influence and cemented the “publicly administered” requirement.
Boomers are/were the generation born from 1946 to ??? The war was over and it was time to start living and raising families.
james – BC has lots of money for sex-change operations. I wonder if that was one of the preferred options? Oh wait, you have to be under 18 to get one of those and you can’t tell your parents you got one.
Single payer health care was sold on the basis of it offering “universal coverage”. Single payer systems can only ration treatment to control costs (particularly in unionized government-run monopolies) and in liberal societies allow private options to shorten queues. In illiberal societies (Canada, Cuba, and North Korea) one must flee the jurisdiction to pursue private options. That’s how it works in the deranged dominion and no electable political party wants to change it. The government funded media won’t even allow open discussion about it.
Your diagnosis is correct, Mr Chittick.
Welcome to Russia where da health care is free but non existent. So just shut up and go die.
I know a Russian emigre who said Canadian health care is far, far worse than that given in Russia. He was amazed and appalled.
I lost my wife to cancer about 18 months ago, after a four year challenge of stage 4. When she was diagnosed and needed a PET scan we were given 3 options: an appointment at UBC in 6 – 8 weeks, a private medical clinic in Bellingham Wash. which the gov’t of B.C. would pay for, but with the attendant problems of traveling from Van. Island and accommodations at our cost, or pay $3,500 to a private clinic in Burnaby. We chose the latter and got the unhappy results immediately, which allowed for prompt treatment.
The crazy thing is that the gov’t would pay a clinic in Washington State, but would not pay a clinic in Burnaby, B.C. Apparently, paying an out of country provider doesn’t count as “two-tier” health care, whereas a Canadian provider ‘violates’ the principle.
This is the current situation in Canada –
As a BC resident I was forbidden from accessing private pay for care hip replacement in BC – but as an out of province resident I was permitted to pay $28,000 for a hip replacement in Alberta (or any other province!)
It is as though we live in Alice In Wonderland?
Holy smokes!!! Did I read that correctly? The treatment she acquired in the US was effective and timely. In other words…it worked. The Dr. (Sardi) who did it has been treating cases just like hers for over 30 years and pegged her as a textbook recipient for such a procedure.
But, BC Cancer won’t consider her medical costs because it was the treatment that they would not have prescribed. This is said with a straight face? Additionally, the initial exam in BC resulted in the physician saying she could have as little as two months of life left, but couldn’t give the patient a projected time when she could be examined by an oncologist (stating that it could be months or longer before that could occur). Again, this is said with a straight face? She had a zoom call with an Oncologist in the US within the week, and was traveling to meet him without hearing back from BC.
Guys, what is Universal Healthcare? It seems to be nothing but false promises.
Orson
Thanks for stating my thoughts for me, as that was my focus. Having said that, I lost my oldest brother back 20 years ago, because of the assholes in medicine here in Canada. If I had know sooner , I would have paid for him to go to the USA. I was lucky that I did not take my GP’s advise, and went to a specialist who diagnosed my cancer immediately.
You didn’t know that our system is a joke until now?
A few years ago,I ran into a friend of mine who had beaten cancer. I only knew a little of his story and when I asked him about it he mentioned that Medicare had saved his life. After a moment of me trying not to react, he laughed and told me how his dr had finally referred him to a specialist only after telling him there was nothing he could find wrong for several months. Then, after waiting several months more for an appointment, the cancer specialist told him to just go home and get his affairs in order as it was far too late to treat anything. He was on his early 40’s with a young family so he went to Mexico and was got treatment right away. When I visited with him he was already back working f/t and farming as well, likely working 80 hr weeks. His opinion was that if he had stayed in Canada he wouldn’t have lived. He lived for 7-8 more years and sadly died from an infection that our drs couldn’t seem to fix.
I’m so sad for our country and what it’s become. The most beautiful place to live on this earth, and it’s rotting from within. It’s not a shortage of resources or good people that care, it’s being hijacked by evil
I own a cow and take it to the vet for treatment. The vet gives the bill to me. The owner.
I go to the doctor for treatment after weeks of waiting for an appointment.
The doctor gives the bill for my treatment to….the owner.
How does Kate put it….”not dead enough”.
I suppose you could claim refugee in the US. Your home state is trying to kill you. It would take them long past your expiry date to get you out and even then you could just pretend to be from south of the border.
I’m surprised that Global Tv published this article, and spread it on their social media accounts (saw this on X/Twitter earlier today)
I’m not surprised that an NDP Gov’t would decide this.
Marc that was the most surprising thing for me as well!
I have to ask. Is this a result of inexperienced incompetent medical staff? Is it a result of having their hands tied in providing treatment so as keep costs low as possible through an edict from non-medical personnel? Is it a result of poor organizational skills from the administrative staff? Is it a result of a lack of compassion or empathy from the medical staff? Is it a result of personnel shortages reflective of keeping costs as low as possible?
Or, is it all of these things and more?
One thing I can’t quite grasp is that they can’t give a patient a concrete date in which an examination will take place. There is no excuse for that (even if it is months into the future). That seems like uncaring laziness.
BC Health is refusing to hire nurses who are not covid jabbed. With the evidence against these jabs piling up, and deaths surging in many jurisdictions (Singapore has a +38% surge above normal death rates and is above 92% vaxed)
I think it’s a reflection of BC Health’s policy, not an individual who is trying to make a point.
Not to mention you have to wear a cuck mask permanently for 6 months every year in BC healthcare settings. Anyone same has left.
My daughter a nurse was fired for refusing the “jabacide”.
Hasn’t been rehired, because the pugnacious frauds running the system, would be too em-bare-assed to eat the plate full of crow, they so richly deserve.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, C in C
1st St Nicolaas Army
Army Group True North
Government as usual is the overriding problem.
Rationing is the end result of bringing in thousands of unskilled 3rd world future liberal voters and their extended families to overburden our sovietized healthcare system.
This rids the libscum of canucks who paid their taxes into the system for years – lots of them conservatives making it a bonus – and guarantees a horde of future voters who’ll never assimilate and despise what canada once stood for. That’s not a “three-fer” it’s a big winning 4.
Words don’t begin to describe how I despise the liberals and Left in this country.
This has been going on for a very long time.
When I worked in a constituency office, I was amazed at how many newcomers to this country were admitted while needing kidney or liver transplants and they were being put on our transplant lists.
Plus there were all the families coming in with multiple deformed children, as I later came to learn, all from cousin-marriages.
According to the Immigration Act anybody who is to be an undue burden to our healthcare system is supposed to be ineligible for entry, but the government bureaucrats approved them anyways in vast numbers, and that was under the Harper government and Jason Kennedy as the open doors Minister of Immigration. I can only imagine how bad it is now.
These were not doctors, nor people with specialized skills. These were unskilled workers, mostly from The Religion of Peace™ but some from the oldest mass practiced religion. I never understood why we let in people who would never and could never contribute to this country, but only be a huge financial and medical burden to Canada.
First cousin marriages… Figure 1 here will (again) confirm your statement.
https://www.nature.com/articles/gim2011137
I wonder how well it would line up if you overlaid a map of global IQ distribution over Figure 1?
L – “For the third year in a row life expectancy has declined in Canada, a trend experts consider to be historical, indicating a worrisome downturn in our overall health.
Statistics Canada released its report Deaths, 2022 on Monday, showing that the life expectancy of Canadians fell to 81.3 years in 2022 from 81.6 years in 2021. The decline was more prominent among females than men, the data showed.
“This is the first time this has ever happened,” Dr. Doug Manuel, a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, told Global News. “We’ve hardly had any declines, we have had a recession, but never like this, not three years in a row. It’s a pretty big event…”
https://globalnews.ca/video/10118980/life-expectancy-in-canada-declines-for-3rd-year/
First it’s voluntary, then it’s compulsory.
First it’s illegal, then voluntary, then compulsory. Treatment is no longer recommended, dying is.
I’m not pretending this is the full picture, but nevertheless, Trudeau is the Nazi people talk about.
Look at it all this way …
If our governing elites had met with aliens ten years ago, and were told, “depopulate your planet, we will reward you and spare your lives, otherwise you will die with all the rest,”
would they act any differently from how they act now?
Case closed. Aliens. Aliens who prefer to have their dirty work done by others.
Gotta say, if I were told “you will die 0.3 years earlier” I would give two thumbs up, younger people might not get this at all, but once past 75 you start balancing in your mind, do I want to get to 85 or 90, or not? It looks like a drag to be half dead and not particularly well off in a cold country like this, if it were Arizona maybe a different story, you could sit out in the sun etc etc.
Now if it were 3.0 years, perhaps a different reaction. But I would give 0.3 years a Seinfeld shrug. Sure COVID is the reason why life expectancy has dropped a bit, either the actual COVID, or the killer injections. Or both.
“Covid” did not increase or decrease life expectancy. It was no more deadly than the seasonal flu, and the seasonal flu vanished for some strange reason when they were calling respiratory disease “covid”. People died because of government lies and actions.
“BC Cancer”
The irony of that organization’s title is certainly lost on the Fascist clowns running the B.C. Ministry of Health.