Posted on 03/11/2010 6:19:50 PM PST by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
How’s this for an infuriating, yet eye-opening article from this past weekend’s Toronto Sun:
Sick man faces bankruptcy — or death
Cancer patient must pay for drug needed to keep him alive By MARK BONOKOSKI, TORONTO SUN
Last Updated: March 6, 2010 9:12pm
... Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy. ...
Wait a minute. I thought this couldn’t happen when the government is in charge of your health care. I thought everyone was covered, everyone got readily available quality health care and no one was denied treatment just because, unlike with greeedy eeevil insurance companies, the decision-makers weren’t concerned only with making a profit.
What happens if Canada's current nightmare becomes the U.S.’s future? Where would we and Canadians go once our government starts to do what President Hope&Change promises us it wouldn’t and deny you life-saving treatment?
There’s a lot that can be said about this situation. And who better to say it than the “Great One” Mark Levin:
(Excerpt) Read more at vocalminority.typepad.com ...
Gee if this crap passes where will we go for good healthcare???
India, if one can afford it...
True...
took a friend to medical heart center today and saw a notice in the window stating that as of March 1.Medicare is paying 21%less so they may have to stop taking medicare patients....they were asking people to contact their congress critters, naming kay baily hutchinson as one to call.....
no place to go..
Insurance agents will begin to sell policies that will pay benefits for international health claims. I know of at least two such plans and an emergency medivac plan that will take you there.
Listen to Reagan’s Goldwater Speech. He was a prophet about this.
As he said,
“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
He was a very prophetic man...And yet here we are on the ledge of a very scary cliff...
We haven’t seen anything yet. The current Medicare system as well a most of the union controlled Medical packages are busted and just like the AGW crowd they are trying to hide the decline. This HC package is a doubling down on the ponzi scheme.
but its still being ripped off...nobody is really attacking waste and fraud.
is that why they are desperate to dump the healthcare problem on tax payers...not many of us taxpayers left
they already cut payments on medicare 21% to doctors. doctors are saying they will have to limit the medicare patients or stop seeing them due to overhead costs...why dont they cut waste and fraud first..they could stop paying for all those expensive motorized chairs when a patient doesnt have the mental ability to run one...home healths has left some sort of unused equipment at my mothers for the past year and when i have it removed they send something else....she doesnt use and tell me she will use it later.
Here in Canada our socialized system started around 1970. As expected many doctors started to restrict services to people on the public insurance system because the reimbursements were too low. This led to the Canada Health Act in 1984 where the entire medical system was enslaved. Billing other than to the government became illegal for both the patient and the doctor. That is why it can take a year to see a specialist today and the chances of that specialist or generalist being trained in Canada or the US is very low. It’s a bonus if they even speak broken English.
This is what it all ends up like!!!
Aha, the family doctor! In Canada this is the gatekeeper to the system. If you have one (20% of the population doesn’t and can’t find one) every access to the system goes through him/her. That’s why that 3 hour wait. If you have a mole or wart that you want looked at you must see a GP who will then attempt to make an appointment with a dermatologist - 2-6 months.
The average wait with an appointment is probably 2 hours. The average contact time with the family doctor will be 7 minutes. In that time he will take your blood pressure, glance at the notes from your last visit and give you a requisition for the lab. You are not permitted to go to a lab on your own to reduce the time and number of visits.
If you have a true (triage makes the decision) emergency the system works here. Otherwise, it is an incredible pain in the ass. It IS the post office taking care of your health!
a year to have a bad heart looked at my be deadly
guess we can all go back to school and learn to doctor ouselves....with no jobs we will have lots of time on our hands....Healthcare providers are expecting huge loss of jobs from this.
guess we can all go back to school and learn to doctor ouselves....with no jobs we will have lots of time on our hands....Healthcare providers are expecting huge loss of jobs from this.sorry,i meant to say healthcare workers...thats who i have been talking to.
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