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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: Canada's death row |
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Who said Americans don't pay attention to Canada.
Nationalized (government-run) health care has been the goal of many for decades. And Canada's system, some say, is a good model.
Yikes.
The Canadian system features 10 "interlocking" provincial and three territorial health insurance plans. And according to Health Canada, the federal agency overseeing the effort, "the system provides access to universal, comprehensive coverage for medically necessary hospital and physician services."
Eventually.
"Universal health care," the spoonful of sugar that's supposed to make nationalized medicine go down better, increases demand. Which begets shortages. Which beget rationing. Which begets waiting. So long have the delays grown for some services that Health Canada had to form the "Wait Time Alliance."
On Sunday, the group offered its interim recommendations. Among them:
Those seeking emergency CT scans or MRIs should not have to wait more than 24 hours; the wait for "urgent" cases should be only seven days.
"Emergency" heart-bypass surgery should be done within two days. Not "urgent"? You'll have to wait anywhere from 42 to 182 days.
This isn't medical care; this is death row. And it's an expensive one at that: Canadians are paying $5.5 billion just to figure out how to reduce waiting.
Obviously, nationalized health care is an idea whose time hasn't come.
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