Does anyone else see the mistake and contradiction in this paragraph?

An HHS official said the attack appears to mark the first successful intrusion into the website, where millions of Americans bought insurance starting last year under the Affordable Care Act. It raised concerns among federal officials because of how easily the intruder gained access and how much damage could have occurred.

This message paid for by the lazy, overpaid members of CUPE. MT @cambroten In QP today, I raised concerns about hospital cleanliness.

— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 31, 2013

Story here.

Not quite in the way you might surmise, at The Gods of the Copybook Headings. Canadian provinces, anyone?

Did Canadian health care kill Rita MacNeil?

“Ontario doctor to leave country after financially-devastating battle with Ontario College of Physicians” (h/t Kevin B)

Welcome to the compassionate world of government health care.

During the first presidential debate, President Barack Obama made a claim against Mitt Romney that has been ringing in my ears ever since. Speaking on the topic of health care, Obama said that Romney would leave people “At the mercy of private insurance.”
The implication of course is that Obama will protect people from the big, mean insurance companies, and his own plan, Obamacare, is the more compassionate way. Supporters of government health care, and that is what Obamacare will morph into, love to make the insurance industry out to be the boogeyman.
Let me set you straight.

The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of other people’s bed space: The Liverpool Care Pathway.
h/t Adrian

The Province;

“We have no intention of not treating our patients, or telling people who are suffering in pain that we’ll do nothing for them,” [Dr. Brian Day] said. “So we’ve told the government, ‘Go get your injunction and we’ll see you in court.’
“We’re still waiting.” The Christy Clark government, represented by the B.C. Medical Services Commission, conducted an audit of Day’s clinic and concluded he was breaking the law by charging patients directly for publicly insured services.
[…]
“I’ve said all along that politicians of all stripes – NDP, Liberal, Conservative – union leaders, including leaders within the nurses’ union, high-profile people of all types – they’ve all been to our clinic for treatment.
“Yet, at the same time, many of these same people will say they don’t support the private sector in health care. There’s a lot of hypocrisy that goes on.”

Nobody needs to be a doctor!

In the Inland Empire, an economically depressed region in Southern California, President Obama’s health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily translate into care: Local health experts doubt there will be enough doctors to meet the area’s needs. There are not enough now.

Toronto Star;

Rates of C. difficile dropped by more than one quarter in Ontario after the province made it mandatory for hospitals to publicly report cases of the deadly hospital-acquired infection, according to a new study on the patient safety problem.
Researchers say the drop in rates suggest that public reporting helped to focus hospitals’ attention on C. difficile, prompting them to find ways to prevent and reduce the spread of the infectious organism

Via Harry K., who writes;

So let me get this right: Only public exposure aka accountability made $300,000+ a year hospital administrators worry about not killing people needlessly?
It really really is time that public administrators and politicians were exposed to the same level of accountability as we are in the private sector.
In my property management business if say a fire door in one of my buildings does not latch closed properly and I do not notice it but the fire prevention office did after a couple of visits, I will be charged and be successfully prosecuted and face a fine of $1,000. And nobody has died.
So what can anyone say about healthcare administrators that allow people to die? Could you imagine how much money or how many lives could be saved in our country if public administrators would feel the same pain of at least a reduced pay cheque like the private sector does if a mistake happens?

Nobody needs to be a doctor.

Ontario’s Health Minister is still angered by the number of millionaire doctors populating the province.
“I was appalled when I saw how many were making in excess of $1 million,” Deb Matthews said, referring to a list that counted over 400 names in 2010.
“Some doctors are getting paid too much. We need to address the issue of relativity. Some doctors in some specialties are earning a fraction of what doctors in other specialties are earning.”

(h/t Bull)

Death panels? What death panels?

Have your insulin at the ready…

I have to think that intimation of death expressed itself, not only in the courage and dignity with which he went about his own business, but in his considerate treatment of others, even his adversaries. How could it not? Much of the preposterousness of politics stems from the participants’ lunatic enlargement of the stakes, the “this is war” mentality with which they justify to themselves each appalling act. How childish these games must seem, when you are fighting for your life.

Indeed, it must.
It’s hypocrites like Jack Layton who are collectively responsible for elevating Canada’s “universal” health care system into an obscene sacred cow that inflicts delayed treatment and premature death on faceless, nameless, uncelebrated Canadians each and every year.
And may he and his pal Tommy rot in hell for it.