B.C. Gov't Gets Tough With Private Clinic [Joys of 'Free' Health Care]

canada.com ^

[governsleastgovernsbest]

This could be us if Hillary had succeeded in 1993.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Joys-of-socialism ping to Today show list.

[Mo1]

IMO .. they are trying to put healthcare out of business

[neodad]

In recent months, the B.C. New Democratic Party has attacked the provincial Liberal government for not cracking down on doctors it says have allowed patients to pay for access to private clinics.

Those B@stards!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Exactly. How dare these people think they should be allowed to purchase possibly life-saving services with their own money? We must all be willing to sacrifice in the name of serving Mother Socialism!

[KingArthur305]

What is this obsession with "universal health care". Why in the world can't a clinic charge a fee if the patient can and is willing to pay it in order to get better and faster service.

Its almost like they can't stand to see a medical system that out does theirs and is proven to work more efficient.

I guess Liberalism is like Islam, no matter how much one disproves a point in its doctrine, it seem Liberals would rather suffer under their ways then to adopt rational and not purely emotional ways.

[Eva]

My sister in law lives in VT, where Howard Dean imposed socialized medicine before leaving office. She had hip replacement surgery (she's in her forties, but fell off her horse and broke the hip in three places)this week as an out patient. Her husband had to drive her home from Burlington in the car and get her into the house, himself. This time she only had to wait about two months for the surgery, when she needed back surgery, the wait was nine months.

[Thermalseeker]

What is this obsession with "universal health care".

It's a quest for power.......

[x_plus_one]

Medical equipment is very expensive. The fifty dollar price tag for an x-ray is very low. The Canuck govt. is trying to legislate the price of equipment by regulating fees. But then again, what judge or legislature wouldn't jump at the opportunity to regulate greenhouse emissions with the intention of stopping global warming?

[KingArthur305]

Amazing, Liberals would rather see everyone suffer, then to see charity and government help the people without healthcare. Case envy is at their core.

[Mo1]

The Canuck govt. is trying to legislate the price of equipment by regulating fees.

And by doing so they will end up putting people out of business

[Mo1]

Amazing, Liberals would rather see everyone suffer, then to see charity and government help the people without healthcare. Case envy is at their core.

I think it falls under the category of population control

[taxcontrol]

However, a Supreme Court of Canada decision last year which ruled that the Quebec government couldn't stop patients from purchasing private insurance for health-care procedures provided under medicare, given that the public system often fails to provide service in a timely manner has emboldened private clinic proponents, who believe the decision gives them legal support.

Ok, easy work around... patient buys private insurance, just before the services are delivered, that then pays for the procedures.

[cosine]

Actually, what they have done is destroyed capital investment in Canadian medicine because governments always, always, always set prices to certain kinds of producers way too low. The country's radiologists estimate that virtually all of the diagnostic imaging devices are in need of upgrade. Some are so old that they don't turn them off. There is a huge doctor shortage. Physicians are on a budget. They see patients until their budget is exhausted and then take a long vacation. If, that is, they haven't moved to the U.S. where they still can practice something that resembles medicine.

The people who support this kind of thing are emeshed in a utopian vision of equality. When it doesn't work out in practice, they will trash quality in order to make sure that everyone is equal.

And, make no mistake, they are busy doing that in the U.S., too.

[Mo1]

I agree

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This is exactly what the Clintons had in mind for the rest of us.

[VOA]

If, that is, they haven't moved to the U.S. where they still can
practice something that resembles medicine.

I'm not in the medical field.
But it seemed that during my stay in Southern California
(1995-2005), about every fourth doctor I met was...from Canada.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

GMTA - see #1.

[VOA]

The country's radiologists estimate that virtually all of the diagnostic
imaging devices are in need of upgrade.

IIRC, maybe 10 years ago an investigative news report showed that
there were more CAT scanners in Orange County (California)
than in all of Canada.

Of course access to most of the Orange County scanner costs money
or good health insurance.
But illegals get the service for free at major research universities.
(according to a friend at USC medical school)

[twonie]

There is infinitely more sanctimony involved in forcing people to wait and wait and wait for necessary "free" treatment when they are ill than to allow them to pay. It's just like the song says: "Oh. Canada."