Tag Archives: Canadian Healthcare
Public health care has no claim to moral superiority
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/full-comment/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/22/lorne-gunter-public-health-care-has-no-claim-to-moral-superiority Lorne Gunter: Public health care has no claim to moral superiority Lorne Gunter, National Post Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 Please tell me how this is better than two-tiered American health care? Monday, the Ontario provincial government decided to cover the …
Ontario’s health care system needs more than Band-Aid solutions
I can never understand how anyone can believe that having the government make it illegal to obtain medical care is a good thing. Whenever you put a politician in charge of picking winners and losers, there will be a lot …
Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-looks-to-change-the-rules-for-those-with-rare-conditions/article1939555/ Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions lisa priest From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 8:01PM EST The operation was so risky and rare even the best neurosurgeons in the patient’s …
OHIP turns blind eye to suffering
This is an unfortunate byproduct of government intervention in medicine. It’s very unfortunate, and it’s the reason so many Canadians use MediBid to get timely and affordable medical care. http://m.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/01/20/19274441.html OHIP turns blind eye to suffering JONATHAN SHER, The London …
What should I know about seeking medical care?
Many Canadians on a surgical waiting list are faced with leaving the country to get timely medical care. However, they need to exercise caution. Many medical tourism brokers work only with overseas facilities. Many of these facilities are first rate …
Prediction: Canadians flock to private health care
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/66237–prediction-canadians-flock-to-private-health-care Canada sees the mounting cost of covering an aging population and admits they cannot afford projected expenses. They are allowing citizens to buy private insurance to cover the crippled government system. Canadians already come to the U.S. to get …
Quebec Man Dies After He Forgets Health Card
As insensitive as the treatment of the Canadian skier was, and as imperfect as both the US and the Canadian systems are, refusing to see a patient who goes to the emergency room simply because he does not have a …
Canadian Skier’s Hospital Bill Puts American Costs in Spotlight
This is indeed a very tragic story. Sadly, the practice of billing out “chargemaster rates” to one group of people to subsidize other contracts which hospitals voluntarily enter in to is discriminatory, and punishes one class of people to help …
Health service delisting coming, Ontario minister says
When government takes the role of regulating our health, they eventually start running out of our money. Then they start to ration. Using control or people’s health to stay in power represents a low point in politics. Many Canadians seeking …
Breaking the Waiting List Silence | thepatientfactor.com
Many say that the government needs to control healthcare. They say that the government is the only entity with enough compassion to make decisions which regular people are too stupid to make. Many Canadians are too afraid to speak up …
