Nice of them to give you kids a heads up.
Juxtapose!
The Telegraph- Ukrainian healthcare is better than the NHS
If you have read and struggled to believe stories about Ukrainians living in the UK returning to their native country for medical treatment, let me tell you that I am one of them. Having given up on the NHS, I flew to Poland and crossed the border. Later that day, amid air raid sirens, I visited a hospital. By the evening, I had the relevant medicines to get me back on the mend.
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
YOU WILL NOT GET HEALTH CARE UNTIL WE SAY YOU GET HEALTH CARE: Protesting at a hospital? Intimidating patients? The NDP has gone full Westboro Baptist Church. Funny — they called for the arrest of anti-vax protesters for doing far less.
Do It Already
Global- Majority of Canadians support private options for health care, poll shows
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News between Jan. 19 and Jan. 23, 2023 found 59 per cent of the 1,001 adults surveyed expressed support for the private delivery of publicly-funded health services. Sixty per cent of respondents were also in favour of private health care for those who can afford it.
Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, says in the 30 years he has studied public opinion in Canada, he has never seen such a shift in support toward privatization.
A Cornucopia of Spare Parts
Permanent Solutions
Western Standard- Alberta transgender wants MAiD after sexual reassignment surgery goes sour
h/t Scott
Two sides of the same coin
Whatever it is that Doug Ford has in store for socialized medicine, it is certainly not privatization. It would be more accurate to term it a variation on the same centrally planned model that is currently in its death throes. Unless a direct, financial relationship can be established between patient and health care provider, the current system will continue to flounder its way to the seafloor.
Many health services in Ontario, such as blood tests and ultrasounds, are already often performed in for-profit facilities. And both Ms. Jones and Premier Doug Ford have repeatedly said whatever changes to the system they make would still see Ontarians use their health cards – not their credit cards – for needed care.
Naturally, the “fixed pie” economy clown show never misses an opportunity to chime in:
Health system experts have also warned that expanding private clinics could exacerbate the staffing crisis in hospitals, as more nurses or other staff could be lured to work outside the public system.
Rationing Will Continue
As long as government keeps running health care.
The Telegraph- NHS trust cancels all routine operations for three weeks
Ms Burden said: “Due to the overwhelming demand across general practice and the need to prioritise same-day emergency care to support the wider system, we are asking GP practices to move to only seeing urgent and emergency care patients only.”
She said this would allow practices to focus on urgent care, palliative care, screening programmes, out-of-hours services and care for those with complex care needs.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
Because of our government run, socialized medicare system there’s a lot of perverse incentives baked into this legislation. Treatment is expensive, and lets face it, a hassle for those whose job it is to provide it. People are being encouraged to off themselves for -The Greater Good™-
Globe and Mail- Canada’s medically assisted dying laws are set to expand this year. Here’s what you need to know
People suffering from mental disorders who have other underlying conditions may already be eligible for assisted dying. The expansion specifically includes people who only have a mental disorder.
That will make Canada one of a handful of countries where someone who is suffering from a mental disorder and whose natural death is not foreseeable will be able to receive a medically assisted death.
The Tom Woods Show- When the State Promotes Suicide
Tim Moen joins us to provide the background to some of the stories we’ve been hearing coming out of Canada about the promiscuous recommendation of euthanasia there.
Sit Down…
…watch Netflix, get fat and you’ll –Save the NHS™-
The Telegraph- Don’t go on ‘long runs’ during NHS chaos, senior medic warns
People should avoid going on “long runs” to get fit in the New Year amid record pressures on the NHS, one of the country’s chief medical officers has said.
Sir Frank Atherton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales, said those thinking of shedding a few pounds should avoid placing undue demands on medical services as they suffer increasingly from delays, with ambulances facing long queues to admit patients to hospital.
‘Santa MAID is coming to town…’
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
Break out of the silo mentality and negotiate like you mean it.
Provinces should notify the feds that their 500k new immigrants per year will not be eligible for provincial health cards, due to lack of capacity. Trudeau is playing both sides — breaking the system while withholding return of our $$. @PremierScottMoe @ABDanielleSmith https://t.co/Y4mS4euxXw
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 20, 2022
Best Healthcare System in the World
Jean Marc Benoit MD- Canadian Emergency Departments in crisis?
The crisis in Canadian hospitals in 2021/22 does not appear to be driven by more severe illness (except in 20-44 year olds), or by the the number of ER visits, or by the number of admitted patients.
So what is the problem?
It seems highly likely that something knocked Canada’s hospitals’ efficiency off kilter in 2021/22.
Jean Marc Benoit MD- Pediatric virus crisis, Canada, fall 2022?
Ideally, a full look at the pediatric virus crisis in Canada this fall would incorporate ER visits, hospital admissions, and ICU admissions. For some reason, this data is not available in real time – although presumably Ministries of Health have access – so it is rather challenging to contextualize somewhat alarming reports by CBC, CTV et al about the “tripledemic” (RSV, influenza, covid19).
Brian Lilley- Canada takes dark turn in rush to expand medical assistance in dying
JP Sears- Satire, but just barely.
First Voluntary, Then Mandatory
“Canada” prepares to expand assisted death amid debate.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can now proudly add “Grim Reaper” onto his CV.
It could go right after blackface aficionado, aspiring lounge lizard and cosplay expert.
Ghouls.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Canadian health care in crisis;
“The Red Cross being called into children’s hospitals in Ottawa, trailers being set up because of the overflow in children’s hospitals in Alberta, children dying because of the flu in B.C. It is clear that this is a national crisis and it cannot be solved at the provincial level,” Singh said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson.
Canadian health care in crisis;
A federal body in charge of funding medical research is holding a 90-minute “interactive workshop” on how to create TikTok videos.
Instagram and TikTok for #SciComm is being led by influencer and neurologist Dr. Samantha Yammine who is also known as “Science Sam” online. The event is hosted by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
Universal Death-Care
From consent to coercion to coverup: Even after seeing many shocking facts & revelations on the MAiD issue over the past 2 months, it came as a jolt to me that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has made a draft policy to the effect that the death certificate of MAiD recipients in the province will NOT show MAiD as the cause of their death…
Our lives are the government crop, always ripe for harvest.
Behold: The Glory of Socialized Medicine in Canada
This is what happens when government has a monopoly on the delivery of medicine: the government owns your body and those of your loved ones.
Canada currently has a shortage of fever and pain medications for children and the most common antibiotics prescribed to children. PM Blackface Hairdo has previously blamed “climate change” for the shortage.
When kids can’t be treated at home because there are no fever medications and no antibiotics available, they need emergency care. And here’s how that’s working out in Quebec-but it’s the same in many places across Canada.
“Here’s what it’s like when your kids get sick in Québec right now – a long thread.”
Read the whole thing.
House Cleaning
@PaulMitchell_AB Breaking: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has fired the entire Alberta Health Services (AHS) Board of Directors.
Hey Look, We Saved Healthcare…
oh, wait…
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.