In addition to the cardiac and I.C.U. patients that Canada must send south to get proper care, women with high-risk pregnancies and sick babies are also being sent to the U.S. The Globe & Mail reports the following:
More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past year.
Why? […]
The credibility of single-payer advocates depends largely on their ability to present the Canadian health care system—-the closest real-world example of the medical delivery model they promote—-as superior to the U.S. system. In order to achieve that goal, however, they need some way of discrediting the stories that constantly appear in the media about the poor quality and long waiting lists to which the […]
Single-payer health care will perform better than our evil profit-driven system, right? Tell that to this patient:
In Canada’s biggest city, a young woman in need of fairly basic care at her local hospital does not receive it, and she spirals into a depressing medical morass. Even her father-in-law, a successful dentist, finds himself unable to negotiate […]
An Ontario woman did not rate timely care despite a cancer diagnosis and a huge tumor. Per the Globe & Mail:
Inside Sylvia de Vries lurked an enormous tumour and fluid totalling 18 kilograms. But not even that massive weight gain and a diagnosis of ovarian cancer could assure her timely treatment in Canada.
So, where do you […]
In January, I wrote about Canadians coming to the U.S. in search of I.C.U. beds. Well, it would appear that emergency cardiac patients are also being rushed southward for care. The Globe & Mail reports the following:
421 emergency cardiac patients have been sent to the United States from Ontario since the 2003-2004 fiscal year to Feb. 21 […]
Single-payer advocates cite recent wait time increases in U.S. emergency rooms as yet another reason to embrace government-run health care. Like most of their arguments, this one ignores some very inconvenient facts. It does not explain, for example, why Britain and Canada have serious wait time issues despite their government-controlled systems.
The reality, of course, is that countries with socialized medicine tend to have […]
Last week, Maggie Mahar linked to a risible attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Canada’s dysfunctional health care system. Mythbusting Canadian Health Care is really just a series of straw men that its author, Sara Robinson, makes a great show of knocking down, presumably in the hope that no one will notice her failure to address the real problems plaguing her country’s health care system. She […]
Many single-payer advocates got the vapors when Rudy Giuliani quipped, ”If we ever got Hillarycare in this country, Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.” Well, this Globe & Mail article suggests he was on to something:
More than 150 critically ill Canadians – many with life-threatening cerebral hemorrhages – have been rushed to the United States […]
Europeans often moralize about the American reluctance to join the “civilized world” by implementing “universal” health care. A typical example of this condescending attitude can be found in the comment stream of this post at OVER!MY!MED!BODY!, where a Danish student offers the following:
Today there’s not a single country in Europe that doesn’t have publicly sponsored […]
Can anyone imagine an American with a burst appendix going through this kind of ordeal?
Thursday Oct. 11, 11 p.m. — Dany Bureau starts to feel pains in his stomach. He goes to sleep thinking he just has a stomach ache.
Friday Oct. 12, 3 p.m. – Mr. Bureau and his mother go to the Wakefield hospital. […]