Posted on 09/04/2007 2:05:22 AM PDT by GeronL
If Canada's national health-care system is so dang wonderful, why are so many Canadians coming to America to pay for their own medical care?
Why is the hip replacement center of Canada in Ohio -- at the Cleveland Clinic, where 10 percent of its international patients are Canadians?
Why is the Brain and Spine Clinic in Buffalo serving about 10 border-crossing Canadians a week? Why did a Calgary woman recently have to drive several hundred miles to Great Falls, Mont., to give birth to her quadruplets?
It's simple. As the market-oriented Fraser Institute in Vancouver, B.C., can tell you, Canada's vaunted "free" government health-care system cannot or deliberately will not provide its 33 million citizens with the nonemergency health care they want and need when they need or want it.
Courtesy of the institute, here are some unflattering facts about Canada's sickly system: Number of Canadians on waiting lists for referrals to specialists or for medical services -- 875,000.
Average wait from time of referral to treatment by a specialist -- 17.8 weeks. Shortest waiting time -- oncology, 4.9 weeks. Longest waiting times -- orthopedic surgery, 40.3 weeks. Average wait to get an MRI -- 10.3 weeks nationally but 28 weeks in Newfoundland. Average wait time for a surgery considered "elective," like a hip replacement -- four or more months.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Now that's scary!
If Hillary wins we all live on the moon, Mars or in the asteroid belt... who is with me?
American doctors: Doing the jobs Canadians won’t do.
I was doing a job in Seattle in '99-01 and kept running into Canadians who were down for an MRI.
They told me there were more MRI machines in Seattle than in all of BC.
and its probably true
6 months for an MRI is not healthcare in my opinion, its official oppression
Well, there’s probably more people in Seattle than in all of BC.
This article has been posted earlier. I’m afraid the choir is being preached to here.
Not even close.
The two largest cities on the west coast of North America are Los Angeles and Vancouver.
No mas.
Here’s the earlier posting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889784/posts
So why the wait in BC?
I did a title search
different title, i hate when that happens
Ayup. It’s happened to me.
If you read Britain’s ‘Daily Mail’ on a regular basis you cannot help but be even more appalled at what ‘universal health care’ doth wrought!
The poor Brits are worse off than the Canadians.
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