Canadian Health Care System Ready To Implode »
Posted By gunnyreef 4 months, 1 week ago in News
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.
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Tasine4 months, 1 week ago
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This article is important for Canadians, but just as important for Americans to read and comprehend. Socialized medicine is NOT GOOD! The US government will be making a monumental mistake if it goes socialist, or as some like to use the euphemism, "single payer" to lighten the stigma associated with socialized medicine. Call it anything you wish, but for goodness' sake, don't adopt it for America!
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FTA: 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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BB644 months, 1 week ago
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Wow, do you think Obama and his minions read this article? This is what we've been hearing from the conservatives for years but guys like Kennedy claimed these were all lies. Well now we see, government health care certainly doesn't cost less or provide more.
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calitennflo4 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.vancouversun.com/health/index.html
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An article at the Vancouver Sun, disclosed some about health...yet I know Canadians will resolve their own problems. The news today is that oil prices fell 2 dollars per barrel and stimulated things like this...it's the old supply and demand demands of congress that we supply all they need or else!
Yes- professional beggars. Oh...and remember...there are two major parties within the uS...and both have their propped up politicians while both parties escape the lime-light. See...Oboma is not the problem...it's who he represents...(the Democratic party). -
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canadianrancher574 months, 1 week ago
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simon- you bring up a point that I have thought about lately, we do have the best of both worlds right now, and it is not just people going down but also people who are sent down by the medical system that make use of your system. I would have given you a pos for your comment except for the part of "serious immediate problems", most people who go down at their own expense are not facing emergency situations but are seeking treatments that are not approved up here or have decided by themselves that they cannot wait. There are people up here and likely elsewhere that hobble around with sore knees for years but as soon as a doctor says knee replacement they what it done tomorrow .
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canadianrancher574 months, 1 week ago
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Quote from Dr. Anne Doig incoming president of the CMA that was in the article "Doig, who has had a full-time family practice in Saskatoon for 30 years, acknowledges that when physicians have talked about changing the health-care system in the past, they've been accused of wanting an American-style structure. She insists that's not the case." Now I don't care if President Obama reads this or not but maybe the American people should.
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Also another story that came out today has Ray Romano who was leading an inquiry into Canada's health care program stating that changes are needed but privatization was not an option.
I have yet to see many stories from American doctors about problems in your system, and I don't believe that it is because they don't excist.
Maybe up here in Canada we aren't the greatest country in the world but when there is a problem whether public or private we try to address it without fighting about it for decades. -
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Georgia504 months, 1 week ago
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My takeaway from the article is a need for Americans to take a step back and refresh in themselves an openness to consider alternative approaches to universal health care that will work for America. "My party's right, yours is wrong" is not going to serve us well in the long run. We risk having real solutions fade into the background as acrimony and accusations fly.
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If a Democrat can present a constructive framework, that's fine with this Republican. This should not be about who gets the glory or builds turf.
The discussion centers around comparisons to the UK, Canada, and Europe. We need to consider all major health delivery systems in the world--eat the fish, then spit out the bones.
What is it about Israeli health care that have Palestinians crossing over for live saving surgery? What's going on in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand? Why do Indian professionals come to America to practice?
There needs to be an objective clearinghouse of ideas from around the world so that what emerges here in the US is cost-effective, beneficial, and worthy of support from future generations of Americans.-
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Tasine4 months, 1 week ago
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Georgia, you are absolutely right in saying Americans should step back and take an objective view of this health care issue.
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I disagree with the premise that we should have any government sponsored health care - health care does not fall within the fed's bailiwick except they have stolen it from the states to have more control over the citizens. I do not want socialized medicine for any reason whatsoever. In the '60's I argued against Medicare - I still do. I don't care what the rest of the world does better or worse than we do. If we have to join socialism to have it, it is NOT a bargain. I'd rather die early while free than live to a much older age as a slave.
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NoWayMan4 months, 1 week ago
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maybe you guys should re-read the article.
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Dr. AnneDoig says, "The whole thing is about looking at what other people do."
which cons refuse to do.
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Dr. Robert Ouellet, the current president of the CMA, in his quest for answers, did NOT look to America for help, but instead went to europe on a fact-finding mission where he met with health groups in England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and France.
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