I Sure Hope Our Socialist Healthcare Is As Good As Canada’s
Written by Sam on May 28th, 2008Mark Degasperis was furious his mother spent five days on a stretcher at Toronto Western Hospital waiting for a room with 25 patients ahead of her — until the Toronto Sun made a call and she was suddenly moved to a room yesterday.“They were giving us the same old song and dance why she was in the emergency department with only a sheet draped around her. I couldn’t even call her because she didn’t have a phone,” Degasperis of Georgetown said.
Heather Degasperis, 60, has a dangerous bacterial condition and was sent by her doctor to Toronto Western because it has the experts for her condition.
“She is not well and wasn’t able to sleep and she wasn’t getting any better. She needed peace and quiet to sleep.
“This is a terrible environment. I suggested taking her to another hospital, but we were told there are long waits across the region and the doctors we need are here. So there was nothing we could do,” Degasperis said yesterday.
“I’m angry we pay such high taxes and the more money we throw at the health care system the worse it gets. People shouldn’t be lined up on stretchers in the emergency department. If you are sick you should get a room.”
I just astounds me that there are Americans that still support this kind of system here when you constantly hear about these horror stories. I could post something like this almost every day coming out of one of these Socialist countries and yet the idiots continue to follow Obama around mesmerized by his empty words because they sound good. The left is definitely succeeding at turning Americans into government dependent morons.
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But Sam, if we would just give the leftists the power they would do it better.
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Please explain to me what an anecdote proves. Do you have any actual evidence showing that quality of health care provision is lower in Canada than in the US?
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Yes of course, they know how to make our personal healthcare decisions better than us, don’t you know that!?!
Just trust the proletariat dictatorship caring leftists!
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This is really a failure of the media to communicate the reality of nationalized health care systems around the world. Its a very serious offense in my opinion.
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you guys need to look at Australia.
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Publius, the WHO ranked American health care the most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet ranked it only 37th in overall quality.
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Thanks, Barbara. I’m still waiting for someone on the other side of this discussion to present something other than anecdotes in support of their points.
The rest of the civilized world has public health care. If the quality of delivery is so bad compared to the US, surely you can some up with some kind of evidence.
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I happened to have actually read that study, and if you were to do that, you would understand the metrics used. There are several correlations to “fairness”. If you are actually interested, the US is ranked #1 in “effectiveness of care” (something like that) and a couple of other categories. The “overall” categories are aggregate scores. Point being, the study is not very scientific. Of course, windbags like PineBark High school would stand behind it, its really just another UN fluff piece.
Our system has brought numerous medical advances in treatment and therapy to the entire world. Millions of people in this world have hope when faced with a disease or injury due to the American healthcare system. This is the reason that wealthy foreigners often travel to the US for treatment. I was associated (scientifically) with one of the world’s premiere cancer centers for several years. There were many, many ultra-rich foreigners that came for treatment, often once every month. I remember one guy who would bring his doctor $3000 handmade ties every time. Although anecdotal, it was interesting.
If anyone thinks that nationalizing care in this country will improve the quality, you are wrong. What has the government done to anything that has improved it? Maybe more people would be covered (net), but the quality would surely suffer. This is obvious to any reasonable observer.
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Do you want to start acting like a reasonable human being here? I’d like to actually have a discussion about this topic. As a microeconomist, I might actually have something to contribute, believe it or not.
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Who are you talking down to now Pine-Sol?
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I’m not talking down to anyone. I’m asking if you’d like to have a reasonable discussion about this topic?
And I didn’t mention my high school education until you made fun of the fact that I attended public school!