Canada's top doctor: Health care system 'imploding'

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What does that tell you? :blink:

Canada Considering Healthcare Overhaul With Private Insurance

SASKATOON — The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.

Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country - who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting - recognize that changes must be made.

"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize," Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

"We know that there must be change," she said. "We're all running flat out, we're all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands."

 

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This guy is obviously deranged......in the US he would be a Republican...... :huh:

 

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This guy is obviously deranged......in the US he would be a Republican...... :huh:

Looks like it gets even better! A little tibit from IBD via Vancouver Sun

A leaked report shows that Vancouver's health authority is considering cutting thousands of surgeries to balance the budget. However organized, government-run health care inevitably leads to rationing.

Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government underfunding, leaked paper.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.

Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million.

“This hasn’t been announced by the health authority … but these cuts are coming,â€￾ Dix said, citing figures gleaned from a leaked executive summary of “proposed VCH surgical reductions.â€￾

The health authority confirmed the document is genuine, but said it represents ideas only.

The plan proposes cutbacks to neurosurgery, ophthalmology, vascular surgery and 11 other specialized areas. Brian Brodie, a Canadian doctor and president of the British Columbia Medical Association, has called the proposed surgical cuts a "nightmare."

"Why would you begin your cost-cutting measures on medically necessary surgery?" he asks. "I can't think of a worse place."

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Looks like it gets even better! A little tibit from IBD via Vancouver Sun

A leaked report shows that Vancouver's health authority is considering cutting thousands of surgeries to balance the budget. However organized, government-run health care inevitably leads to rationing.

Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government underfunding, leaked paper.



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Yes...yes.....but this will work here......can't you see that?

 

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Yes...yes.....but this will work here......can't you see that?

LOL the canadians cant see it either...Take It from a Canadian: You Don’t Want the Public Option

 

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Meanwhile in the UK...

Patients with suspected cancer forced to wait so NHS targets can be hit
Patients rushed to hospital with suspected cancer are having their treatment delayed so that managers can meet Government targets, an NHS investigation has found.

People arriving at Accident and Emergency departments with symptoms which could indicate the aggressive spread of the disease are waiting weeks for diagnosis and treatment while “routineâ€￾ cases are prioritised.

Hospital managers told researchers that treating desperately sick patients more quickly would “reflect badlyâ€￾ on their performance against Government cancer targets which only cover those referred to specialists by GPs.

Doctors, patients groups and politicians were appalled by what one described as a “breathtaking admissionâ€￾ which confirmed their “very worst fearsâ€￾ about how far the NHS target culture has gone in distorting clinical priorities.

 

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And back in Canada...

Canada sending patients to US for treatment

Canadians visit U.S. to get health care
Deal lets many go to Michigan hospitals

Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.

Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.

The agreements show how a country with a national care system — a proposal not part of the health care changes under discussion in Congress — copes with demand for care with U.S. partnerships, rather than building new facilities.

Dany Mercado, a leukemia patient from Kitchener, Ontario, is cancer-free after getting a bone marrow transplant at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.

Told by Canadian doctors in 2007 he couldn't have the procedure there, Mercado's family and doctor appealed to Ontario health officials, who agreed to let him have the transplant in Detroit in January 2008.