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The first of two kids from Gaza arrived in Manitoba today to get health care services which are impossible for them to get at home.
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City News- First of two children from Gaza to get medical treatment in Manitoba arrives
Province of Manitoba- Manitoba Government Providing Medical Care to Palestinian Child from Gaza
The province will host the young Palestinian child from Gaza with complex medical needs who is unable to receive proper health-care treatment due to the war. The medical care will be led by volunteer pediatric surgeon Dr. Melanie Morris.
Meanwhile…
CityNews- Winnipeg man among 40,000 facing surgical delays amid Manitoba’s healthcare crisis
CBC- Manitoba judge upholds decision denying sisters out-of-country care funding for chronic illness
CTV- ‘Significant number’: Doctors Manitoba concerned about surgery backlog
The Devil Will Be In The Details
And what the provinces decide to do with this.
Ottawa Citizen- Federal changes could result in a sea change in delivery of primary care
On Friday, federal Health Minister Mark Holland released a long-awaited Canada Health Act interpretation letter and announced a new Canada Health Act Services Policy. The policy, he said, confirms that if a service is considered medically necessary it should be covered by a patient’s provincial or territorial health care plan “whether the service is provided by a physician or a physician-equivalent.”
That means nurse practitioners, midwives and pharmacists could be paid directly through OHIP and other provincial and territorial health care plans, something that, until now, has been reserved for physicians.
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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.
Healthcare Hierarchy
Telegraph- Inside the ‘priority’ NHS services for migrants
Yet here at UCLH, there is one way you can get seen earlier. Indeed, for certain members of society, you can get assessed in just 15 minutes. That privilege goes to undocumented migrants, as well as the homeless and drug addicts, according to its website.
Be Afraid
Be very, very…afraid.
Telegraph- Don’t go outside in the morning or evening, NHS warns as Britain braces for snow
The advice comes as an amber cold weather alert has been issued across England for the next week. The UKHSA upgraded an earlier yellow warning to amber, warning of “significant impacts” on health services. According to the agency, amber alerts are issued when health and social care is impacted and there is “potential for the whole population to be at risk”.
Sounds serious. How cold is it going to get?
Temperatures could fall as low as -8C on Thursday night in rural southern Scotland and northern England, the Met Office said. It will also be cold in rural Wales and the south-west of England, with -6C expected.
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying now accounts for 1 in 20 deaths in Canada. It took 90 years, but Tommy Douglas final got his way. (Please down load the PDF and save it; it’s sure to disappear)
SDA regular Gord Magill discusses The Machine in Life and Death, a deep dive into Canada’s euthanasia law and how it is being promoted.
Good Job Everyone!
National Post- Montreal man, 39, dies from aneurysm after giving up on six-hour wait at ER
Had a bit of a health scare last night, but thankfully it wasn’t a heart attack,’ Adam Burgoyne said in a Dec. 5 post on social media. He died the next day
Great Success!
What’s the wait time for MAID?
National Post- Canadians faced longest ever health-care wait times in 2024, study finds
The 30-week wait is the longest ever recorded by the Institute — longer than the 27.7 weeks in 2023, 20.9 weeks in pre-pandemic 2019, and 222 per cent longer than the 9.3 weeks in 1993, when it began tracking wait times.
It is estimated, across the 10 provinces, that the total number of procedures people waited for in 2024 is 1,543,994.
The Tolerant Left
I’m old enough to remember when extremist rhetoric was a bad thing.
The Unabomber’s unhinged demonization of modernity and capitalism was a fringe position in the ’90s. Now the unhinged demonization of healthcare insurance, the pharmaceutical industry, and Big Oil (all industries, despite their inadequacies, that make lives better for everyone) is the norm. A generation of college students have been indoctrinated into believing the profit motive is killing people when the opposite is true.
One expects Mangione’s writing will be largely indistinguishable from what a person hears from elected progressives and pundits. Yet few will ponder why a seemingly rational Ivy League-educated engineer decided to become a hit man.
Life Imitates Art Imitates Life
Pushing The Panic Button
Lets just call it… SNAFU.
Trust The Evidence- Adapt to the Frenzy: the ‘Quad-demic’
The Guardian reports the number of hospitals ‘with flu’ in England has more than quadrupled compared with last year.’ We’re told that the UKHSA is currently monitoring the activity levels of four illnesses that all peak throughout winter: Flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus and norovirus.
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Nothing says abject failure like the imposition of draconian penalties in order to keep doctors from leaving socialized medicine.
Dubé tabled legislation, Bill 83, in the National Assembly on Tuesday that would require students who studied medicine in a Quebec university to devote the first years of their professional lives, as general practitioners or specialists, to working in public institutions…
A doctor refusing to follow the rules would face fines of between $20,000 and $100,000 a day and per insured act.
Our CCF/NDP Prime Minister
The Waffle Manifesto revisited.
For decades the NDP have tried to distance themselves from the Waffle Manifesto, The Regina Manifesto, and of course Tommy Douglas’s thesis, The Problems of the Subnormal Family. But it appears they have been reborn in the Trudeau government.
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
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The Doctor Will Kill You Now
End stage socialized medicine;
These issues are significant. They stem from incomplete documentation of MAID requests to broken safeguards and potentially even non-consensual euthanasia. A quarter of all Ontario euthanasia providers received at least one compliance issue in 2023, though not a single provider was reported to the police, not even the provider who administered a death that the chief coroner described as “a blatant situation” where “the family and the deceased person suffered tremendously.”
That’ll Fix It
Blacklock’s- Say Definition Aids Millions
A current program under the Canada Student Loan Act writes off up to $60,000 in loans for doctors and $30,000 for nurses who agree to practice in rural Canada. Previous regulations defined rural as remote “census subdivisions” but excluded population density.
“The current definition of an ‘under-served rural or remote community’ tends to exclude areas that may be considered rural within broader municipalities, making them ineligible for the benefit,” said the notice. It gave by example the hamlet of Sheet Harbour, N.S., population 800, that was disqualified from the program since it is a 90-minute drive from Halifax.
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
On Oct. 27, a British Columbia judge intervened to prevent Dr. Ellen Wiebe, or any other doctor, from causing the death of a mentally ill Alberta woman. Justice Simon Coval granted a 30-day injunction to the woman’s common-law partner, one day before her death was scheduled to take place at Wiebe’s Vancouver clinic. A civil claim alleges Wiebe approved the woman’s request for MAID after a single Zoom meeting and without consulting her doctors. Wiebe declined to comment when contacted by National Post.
Safe and Effective®
National Post- Ontario man granted euthanasia for controversial ‘post COVID-19 vaccination syndrome’
Identified as “Mr. A,” the man experienced “suffering and functional decline” following three vaccinations for SARS-CoV-2. He also suffered from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and personality disorders, and, “while navigating his physical symptoms,” was twice admitted to hospital, once involuntarily, with thoughts of suicide.