This is not even a case of “the doctor will kill you now”. It’s more like, “Please wait here quietly until you die“. The only “lesson” that needs to be learned here is that single payer healthcare needs to be ditched, and the sooner, the better.
Manitoba’s health minister, Uzoma Asagwara, says the death of a patient who waited eight hours for care in the emergency room at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) is a “devastating loss” that the health care system needs to learn from.
Canada has reached the goal. Now, it is about changing people’s expectations
Apparently expectations will change dramatically, now that some doctors want to remove organs from folks embracing the MAD program, before they are actually dead. What a great country and people.
So true ….. you can feel it in your bones.
1. Young said he did not believe staffing levels in the emergency room were a factor in the patient’s death…
2. Manitoba’s health minister, Uzoma Asagwara, says the death of a patient who waited eight hours for care in the emergency room…
3. HSC officials say the man had been triaged as “low acuity,” and there were approximately 100 patients in the ER at any given time that morning.
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Must be the new math again. This doesn’t add up.
But, but, but … ewwwwwww … you’re suggesting an insurance company and PROFITS be reintroduced to Canada. Ewwwwww … PROFITS – yuck. PROFITS … and SHAREHOLDERS have no moral business being involved in Healthcare! Healthcare is a RIGHT!!! Gimme my RIGHTS!!! Only a centralized government will carrrrrrree for me! Greedy capitalists won’t carrrrree for me!
If you actually believe any of this … you are simpletons, if not a complete retard. You need serious mental help.
“If you actually believe any of this … you are simpletons, if not a complete retard. You need serious mental help.”
(or they are hardcore union members desperate to protect their cushy positions with job security, outrageous benefits and high salaries that the private sector can only dream of?…)
Otherwise, you are absolutely correct. There is a reason that all of those European health-care systems that beat ours use a mixture of public and private care: because IT WORKS. Period. Our system does not work, and never will.
Spot on re European health-care systems.
I remember some years ago a patient died in Quebec. He was a pure laine franco who had forgotten his card. He was turned back, so he went to get his card. (As if every Canadian citizen doesn’t have one). He died on the way back to the hospital from a ruptured appendix. The hospital and heath services investigated themselves and found nothing wrong, they had followed procedure. All was well. In other businesses like say, aviation, if following procedures leads to death, procedures are changed.
In Canada, if you die on a wait list the wait list stats improve.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
“We are treating this case with the highest urgency, so we’ve put it on another wait list.”
Opportunity for leftist politicians to stuff the pockets of their supporters, congratulations to them…
What I find interesting is a fact that is seldom mentioned, and I don’t know if it is an issue in Canada or not. In the US, emergency rooms have their delays (not approaching anywhere near 8 – 10 hours) . The reason is because all the illegal immigrants use it as a regular doctor’s office visit for minor medical problems. A US hospital cannot turn away patients, so illegal immigrants abuse the service. At any given time the E/R’s are overloaded with patients with non-emergency needs. This creates a risk to those arriving in the E/R and requiring emergency diagnosis and treatment.
It’s a cost of illegal immigration that is seldom mentioned. Not to mention the actual cost of their visit which gets passed onto the insured paying customer in various fashions.
Some US hospitals have giant billboards showing the current wait time in minutes to see a doctor at the ER.
That would never work at a canadian hospital, because you’d be luck to see one in a triple digit number of minutes.
This is a consequence of EMTALA not immigration.
UnPerson can’t read. It’s the immigrants abusing EMTALA that Orson was getting at.
You gotta be kiddin me ?
Buddy of mine died of a hear attack waiting in a Houston hospital. He waited for 8 hours with chest pains.
Was that a “heart” attack or a “bear” attack?
Heart attack.
Apparently Texas has recognized the problem and the Governor issued an edict recently requiring Texas Hospitals to report the illegal immigrant statistics that a delay treatment to US citizens, and the cost. Florida just did it and learned that there were 54,000 visits to the E/R by illegals costing over $500,000,000.
It’s a problem.
Thanks for clarifying. Chest pains are consistent with both. But the implications are different.
Leaky Canoe and the Manitoba NDP think tank will totally fix it!
Since this (an 8 hour wait) has become the standard of care in Canadian medicine, it’s almost impossible to sue for malpractice.
Don ‘t worry, the unions are in good control of the health scare system.
They are terrified of a private component coming into play, it will expose their incompetence.
Why are taxpayers paying millions for hospitals and MRI’s and their maintenance etc, when all we should be paying for is their use?
“devastating loss” that the health care system needs to learn from.”
Don’t make me laugh! The government, which IS the health care system is so enamored of our communist h/c system they cannot even imagine changing anything. Most Canadians have been fear mongered for decades about the awful American system.
Never mentioned are the EU countries that added parallel private care years ago successfully.
I thought Wab Kinew was going to fix this stuff. (sarc)
The manager circles will just last a little longer to give the illusion of hope.
Whenever politicians and pundits bloviate about the “free” healthcare system they never, ever address the 800lb gorilla in the room. That is, the public healthcare unions. These are the number one reason it will never get fixed. Healthcare is their turf and they will do whatever it takes to protect their turf. They don’t care how many patients die waiting in the process.
Exactly.
It’s criminal behavior maintaining their monopoly.
NDP are really great here in MB. Asagwara does awesome instagram reels! Surely that fixes healthcare. This story, along with the one where a woman had her leg amputated after knee replacement because there were no beds for her to be transfered to HSC from Concordia to stich up incision, show the NDP have made things worse!
Next time I go to emerge, I will bring my own pine coffin with me.
Say Mogadishu three times and someone else can say “Gesundheit”.
Now Mogadishu is on the other foot!
Remember, in Canada we consider it a sin to die because you can’t afford healthcare, but it is considered virtuous to die waiting in line for services you paid for your whole life. Unionized healthcare, like education is good for the workers , not so much for patients and students. It is the Canadian way, maybe if we elect a Trudeau for the 8th time it will be different.
Don’t give any ideas to the idiots that voted for him the first time.
Manitoba’s health minister, Uzoma Asagwara’s claim to fame is “they” are the first Non-Binary MB MLA, “they” are one of the first Black MLA’s, “they” passed a bill to recognize Somali Heritage Week and “they” was a college level basketball player.
Governments have run the health care industry for decades. I can’t get a doctor.
Dentistry has been in the private sector. I can see a dentist anytime but now it is being incorporated into the health industry.
God help us if they ever go after veterinarians.
Apparently Wobbly Canoe cancelled about 300 hip and knee operations that were scheduled in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and North Dakota.
Why? Because “we, the ndp, don’t believe in paying others for health care”….
Really backed up everyone waiting for operating room time, patients and doctors.