Category: Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough

The Honourable Member From Air India

Let’s check in on Jagmeet’s Jew-hating fellow travelers;

Veteran NDP MLA Selina Robinson just sent a letter to her caucus colleagues telling them she’s leaving the NDP and will sit as an independent. This follows Robinson being forced by Eby to resign from cabinet for controversial comments she made about pre-1948 Palestine.

Selina Robinson told reporters she’s concerned about incidents of anti-semitism inside the @bcndp caucus and when she brought up anti-semitism training she was rebuffed. She feels she was punished for her hurtful comments but the same standard wasn’t applied to other MLAs.

Best Healthcare System in The World

Grab a beverage.

National Post- The Fall: My once-vibrant dad emerged broken from the hospital. Then he was gone

Falls are all-too common among the elderly and often foretell a deterioration in health.

It is the cause of 85 per cent of all injury-related hospitalizations among seniors in Canada, according to Health Canada. And rates have been increasing. Twenty to 30 per cent of seniors experience at least one fall a year and many, like my father, land in hospital as a result.

Spend a bit of time in an emergency department and it won’t take long to realize that many of those ambulances making their way to hospitals, lights flashing, are carrying an older person who has fallen.

Hurry up and wait…

I would only fully understand later how dangerous that time in a bed or a stretcher can be for the elderly. Every day, every hour, starts a downward slide of mobility and overall physical and mental health, which often prolongs their hospital stay in a dangerous feedback loop. That is especially true for the elderly.

For every day an older person spends lying in bed, it takes two days to recover the strength and function that has been lost. It also takes just eight hours lying on a stretcher for a frail elderly patient’s skin to begin to break down, which could lead to debilitating pressure ulcers, or bed sores. Typical waits in many Ontario emergency departments are nearing the 20-hour mark, but can sometimes be higher.

Let Us Pay Homage To The Las Vegas Nostradamus

“I’ve just flown in from Canada, where they’ve made killing people legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.” *

Employers opposed to assisted suicide should be disqualified from Canada Summer Jobs funding, an advocate has written MPs. The submission to the Commons human resources committee is from the same group that successfully lobbied for denial of funding to pro-life employers: “Regardless of the Canada Summer job, even if it is to mow the lawn, that work gives sustenance to the group’s harmful mandate and activities.”

Une Patiente, S’il Vous Plait!

I’m not surprised that the doctor lost patience with this woman, but a Quebec regulatory body views that as a perfectly good reason to discipline him. As per the Jordan Peterson controversy, I expect he’ll have no recourse to the courts.

The doctor said he had never prescribed hormones to someone who wanted to “transform into a gentleman.” He then brought up concerns that the hormone would lead to aggressive behaviour and changes in character, something the patient said was just a stereotype.

During the consultation, doctor and patient started arguing, with the patient reminding the doctor that he is a trans man, and the doctor responding that he is “genetically female” and noting that as far as being a trans man: “That is in your brain.”

More Of The Same

Meet the new central planner, same as the old central planner. If even Danielle Smith cannot challenge the ludicrous premise behind single payer health care, then “reform” just means shuffling the waiting lists around.

Smith’s United Conservative Party government is expected in the spring sitting to begin passing laws to make good on her plan to dismantle Alberta Health Services, the centralized body that oversees health delivery on everything from acute care to community care.

AHS is to be replaced by four agencies, while being reduced to the role of service provider in acute care.

Waiting Lists for Death

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.”

Zombie Nation

When a business’ interest expense exceeds its profit, it is typically called a “zombie corporation”. It’s quite possible that Canada is going down a similar path right now. While the federal government doesn’t turn a profit, per se, major spending items are well on track to be utterly dwarfed by interest payments.

But the truly stunning figure is not just the size of the annual deficit, which is holding at $40 billion pending a red-ink tidal-wave next year to pay for massive-ticket items like the estimated $11-billion national pharmacare tab and looming fighter jet purchases.

In just five years that debt-financing tab will hit the jaw-dropping intersection where the $60-billion cost of paying interest approximates the cost of all federal transfers for health care.

Soviet Medicine

Every so often, you run across an op ed which is a perfect example of “seeing, and yet not seeing”. It amazes me that this doctor can work every day in the collapsing single payer medical system and yet not recognize that it is precisely the stubborn adherence to this doctrine that is causing the collapse. He claims to desire “real action, real change”, but cannot or will not expand on his weary bromide.

Long gone are the days of the early pandemic, when our neighbours banged their pots and pans in appreciation every evening. Now we are yelled at every single shift about the long wait times. We are verbally and physically assaulted so regularly that the B.C. provincial health authority recently mandated violence-prevention training. All these things, it’s just too much.

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