Tag Archives: Canadian Healthcare
Suspicions Confirmed!!
by Lee Kurisko, MD An increasing problem in day-to-day medical care has been drug shortages. Since 2005 drug shortage issues have quadrupled. In the last few years, as a diagnostic radiologist, our department has had to confront these issues even …
A Free Market Alternative to Obamacare is Medical Tourism
MediBid connects patients with doctors in the US and overseas. Our free market system allows the patient to shop for a physician with complete price transparency and select the destination they wish to travel to for medical care, be it …
A Rare Event: A Statement of the Health Care Truth by a Politician
by Lee Kurisko, MD Tim Hudak, leader of Ontario’s official opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives, made a statement of truth rarely heard in Canada. In Canada, any challenge to the religion of government medicine is exceedingly uncommon, especially by a …
The Surgery Center of Oklahoma Story
by G. Keith Smith, MD A little over 15 years ago, Dr. Steve Lantier and I began the operation of The Surgery Center of Oklahoma. We invited 10 surgeons to join us in this venture, physicians who like us were …
What’s really at stake with Obamacare
by Lee Hieb, MD The following is an open letter to the Republican governor of the state of Iowa, Terry Branstad. Fifteen states have passed laws (three by constitutional amendment) to ensure that citizens of their states maintain the freedom …
Canadians Say Capitalism is Cure for Obamacare
All we need to do is look to our northern neighbors to see the future of healthcare in the United States under Obamacare. Long wait times for procedures, rationing, and people dying while waiting for life saving treatments are all …
Why Canadacare is Better than Obamacare
by G. Keith Smith, MD For all I’ve written about the Canadian healthcare system, I think that all things considered, it is probably better (as awful as it is) than what we know as Obamacare. I see the two recent …
Five Years is No Big Deal
by G. Keith Smith, MD Today I anesthetized a Canadian woman who had waited two years to have a hip operation and had three more years of waiting to go. No one argued in Canada that she needed surgery, they …
Does Your Doctor Work for You?
by Lee Kurisko, MD Being an MD myself, I do occasionally have to see doctors for my own medical concerns. I do not go often, but I have noticed a distinct contrast in a couple of the doctors that I …
Doctors protest Cambie, BC clinic
In Canada, accepting cash for medical treatment is illegal. Dr. Brian Day has been running a private health clinic in Cambie, BC, to which the government says he is billing people for coverage they already get for “free”. Dr. Day …
