The Saskatchewan Surgical Care Network: “Wait Time Information”
“The SSCN is committed to providing Saskatchewan residents with the most complete and up-to-date wait time information available. This web site provides information regarding: Wait Times/Lists (by Specialty)….”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
And after that, they’ll make private billing from your doctor illegal, and private “for profit” diagnostics illegal, and well, there’s not a lot they won’t make illegal to ensure that you, your doctor, your technicians, and your nurses don’t desert the system for greener pastures.
And while you may not learn to love things like “doctor shortages”, “temporary acute care bed closures”, and “dying on waiting lists” right away, your children and grandchildren will, because politicians and union leaders and grade school educators – really, all the leading intellectual lights of your nation – will be hard at work from this day forward, instilling in them the conviction that the health care services they are prohibited from receiving are a cornerstone of your national identity.
So enough with the dissent.
As Canadians can tell you, it’s unpatriotic.
His work continues to spread beyond our shores…
Hospital Patient So Shocked At Dirty Ward She Climbed Out Of Bed To Clean It Herself
Speaking of whom… now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!2004 – “The Greatest Canadian”
2009 – “19 per cent could identify the father of Medicare”
Obama is about to find out* socialized health care’s dirty little secret. Nobody needs to be a doctor.
About 70,000 patient exams in Saskatchewan are being reviewed for possible errors after concerns were raised about the competency of a radiologist.
The review will look at all work done by Dr. L. Darius Tsatsi since he started plying his craft in Saskatchewan in 2004, health officials said Wednesday. It covers people who had X-rays, CT scans, mammography or ultrasound tests.
Most of the tests were done at Yorkton Regional Health Centre over the last five years, but a small number done in Prince Albert and Swift Current will also be reviewed. Tsatsi has worked in all three cities since moving to Saskatchewan from South Africa.”
If US health care is so much more expensive than ours….
….how come they drive nicer cars?
Obama is about to find out socialized health care’s dirty little secret.
Nobody needs to be a doctor.
Another great moment in “universal” health care;
According to Tuesday morning’s Star Phoenix, Saskatoon contractor Ken Olson spotted a man in a hospital gown lying on the ground outside emergency at City Hospital Monday morning.
He ran in to tell staff, but says he was told they would have to call an ambulance to attend to the patient, who was a mere ten feet out the doors.
Olson describes his shock to the newspaper, saying, “What if the man had died while doctors looked on?”
Patti Simonar with the Health Region tells The Star Phoenix that it’s hospital policy to call 911 when there’s a patient found on the grounds.
Conservative bloggers in the US have been chattering about this find in recent hours;
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
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Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties.
If Obama screws up the American health care system, where the Hell are Canadians supposed to go?
It took only 10 years for the Reform Party to self-fund itself from nothingness to Official Opposition.
What’s your excuse?
Update: Yes, indeed.
It’s probably the Libertarian in me, but I’m afraid there’s
a hard line about a spending deficit. The line for me is that at
no time, ever, should a gov’t spend more than it takes in.
Prime Minister Harper cut taxes and for that I thank
him. Having said that, no one should confuse the GST tax-cut
as a means to reduce the burden on tax-payers. In reality it
was to reduce gov’t revenues to handicap the Liberals. Good
strategy, easy sell, obvious advantages. The down-side of
the cuts though is that there is less revenue. Less revenue
without a corresponding change in spending means that a
deficit is a real possibility.
It’s time to stop the spending. The last budget increased
spending like there was no tomorrow. There were no cuts,
regardless of the opinion of artists, that money they whined
about was “shifted”, not saved.
It’s time to be conservative again.
So, aside from the obvious: HRC, CBC, Wheat Board,
military, what other areas can the Conservative gov’t cut to
get out of the red?
Cheers,
lance
Not. Dead. Enough.
Scratch a progressive in Canada’s socialized medical system, and you’ll find a eugenicist;
Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), told the Globe and Mail yesterday, “Palin’s decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who may lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same.”
“The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada,” he said.
Under the facade of “freedom to choose”, Lalonde said that “popular messages” about women like Palin, who choose not to kill their unborn children, “could have detrimental effects on women and their families.”
The apples, they fall not so far from the tree.
“Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.”
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Update – The Would-Be Commandress In Chief has the sniffles again!
“Gotcha. The essence of contemporary British national identity is defined by waiting two years for a hip replacement.”
More – slow-mo euthanasia. Why not? It works for us.
So long as queue jumping is afforded the hypocrites who legislate health care, why deny the ones who deliver it?
When his five-year-old daughter’s bone scan revealed a tumour that might be cancerous, the man who is now president of the Canadian Medical Association decided to jump the queue.
His wife, also a doctor, had taken their daughter into the emergency room of a Vancouver hospital after the little girl experienced a sudden pain in her leg, Dr. Brian Day recalled. The initial bone scan indicated a tumour, but couldn’t reveal whether or not it was cancerous.
“The hospital said: ‘We’ll do a CT scan, bring her back next week,’ ” Dr. Day said. “To me, it’s completely unacceptable, sending a mother home for six days not knowing whether her daughter has a malignant or a benign bone tumour. I made the phone call … I made them do it that day.”
Via Andrew Keyes;
I recall seeing a CBC interview with Jack Layton a couple of years ago, and he was asked “If you discovered your wife had a life-threatening condition and you had to chose between waiting for treatment in Canada and risking her death, or traveling to the US for immediate treatment, what would you do?” Layton answered that he would wait in the queue in Canada.
Some would say his answer reflected his conviction to his principles, others would say it reflected his complete lack of any ability to act rationally. I wonder what his wife thought.
We know what Jean Chretien and Belinda Stronach would do.
There’s a reason Shirley Douglas made her living reading other people’s scripts;
One thing I do like about Shirley – when she’s |
 (from a previous visit to SK) |
Flashback – Heh. “He’s dead by the way”
Melanie Phillips gets letters;
“Unfortunately, 30 months ago I was diagnosed with bowel cancer and had my bowel removed. On arriving at the hospital the day prior to the operation, I went to the toilet. No soap or hand-wash. Spoke to nurse. Yes we know we will get some tomorrow when the cleaner is back!!!!! The patient in the next bed informed me he had said the same the day before. Basic hygiene. After the operation, excrement from a spill from a colostomy bag was left on the floor for 2 days until the next bed patient’s daughter brought in disinfectant to clean up.”
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“Many days I watched the nursing auxiliaries bring his food in and place it temptingly on his table at the foot of his bed, often out of reach. After what seemed a relatively short time they returned and noticing the full dishes commented that he must not be hungry! He couldn’t reach the food. When I complained they left it there but no-one came to feed him so I and his friends fed him. On very few occasions did any of the nursing staff attempt to feed him (they may have when I was at work. I visited him every evening for 3-4 hours). Had it not been for myself and his large group of friends visiting and feeding him I believe he would have received little or no food at all. As a result he didn’t last very long.”
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“I am a nurse of some forty years experience, most of which has been spent in community nursing and working with elderly people. Nurses are no longer encouraged to nurse (care) for their patients. Instead they are directed to learn abstract concepts and highly technical procedures from the beginning of their training. Long gone are the days of bed bath, bed pan and temperature rounds. These rounds generated the time for nurses to share confidences with patients and to observe ways in which their patients’ comfort and progress could be monitored and improved.”
Frustrated while awaiting surgery on his damaged knee, Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Matt Dominguez told a national TSN telecast about his unhappiness and inadvertently waded into a debate about universal health care. All this in a province approaching an election, in the birthplace of medicare, where surgical waiting times are always a hot-button topic.
“I went from being on the best team in the league, leading the league in receiving, to being on a list for surgery,” Dominguez said Monday after calling the Leader-Post to clarify his on-air comments.
“I’ve lived here for three years and I’m involved in the community, but not a week goes by that I don’t hear somebody complain about the health care system. Because I’m an American, I can’t talk about the health care system? You never hear people saying that the waiting lists are awesome. I never said I’m better than anyone or that I should be put ahead of anybody else. I’m not. I’m just saying that if I have to wait eight months (for surgery), that’s too long.”
There’s a reason that the Saskatchewan Roughriders have never won a Grey Cup with the NDP in office.
But what Tommy Douglas taketh away, Lorne Calvert can giveth!
Help Matt Jump The Wait Times Queue!
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