"I Was Offered Assisted Dying Over Cancer Treatment": Broken Canadian Healthcare System Is Killing Patients
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Saturday, June 8, 2024 13:23
VIEWED: 769
PAGE 2 of 2
Okay. The system here is bent in a lot of places and yes, I will admit broken in a lot of places.
But I can say that next week when I see a neurologist at a local hospital, I will not walk out of there with a bill. Nor will I be billed for the tests that I am sure are heading my way.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay. The system here is bent in a lot of places and yes, I will admit broken in a lot of places.
But I can say that next week when I see a neurologist at a local hospital, I will not walk out of there with a bill. Nor will I be billed for the tests that I am sure are heading my way.
That's good. And it's been good for a long time. I have friends in Ontario who've been treated under the healthcare system. But the problem is, it's heading in the wrong direction. The standard of care has definitely eroded since my one friend was treated for lymphoma with a bone marrow transplant 35 years ago to now, where my other friend is having a hard time getting his prostate cancer attended to.
So, what's making it go off track? How can it be made sustainable so that you'll get timely, effective treatment ten or 15 years from now?
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay. The system here is bent in a lot of places and yes, I will admit broken in a lot of places.
But I can say that next week when I see a neurologist at a local hospital, I will not walk out of there with a bill. Nor will I be billed for the tests that I am sure are heading my way.
That's good. And it's been good for a long time. I have friends in Ontario who've been treated under the healthcare system. But the problem is, it's heading in the wrong direction. The standard of care has definitely eroded since my one friend was treated for lymphoma with a bone marrow transplant 35 years ago to now, where my other friend is having a hard time getting his prostate cancer attended to.
So, what's making it go off track? How can it be made sustainable so that you'll get timely, effective treatment ten or 15 years from now?
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
I know there has been erosion. My mum got good care during her two bouts with cancer and that was almost 20 years since she died. Though it's been 3 years since my brother was hit by a car and wound up in the hospital. I know he didn't have any complaints with treatment he received.
That is the question all levels of government across the country are asking and trying to answer. Here in BC, the province is working on making it easier for foreign trained doctors, nurses and other health professionals to be able to work here. Cutting out the red tape and the wait and not making it so hard for them to get work in their fields. Opening up more seats in the medical schools and nursing programs. Offering incentives to practice in remote communities in BC. Other provinces and territories are looking at the same types of things as well. We have too.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Obviously, USA should import Single Payer Health Care . . . Oh, Obamacare is already the Law of the land?
never mind.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Because our system is so much better?
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Obviously, USA should import Single Payer Health Care . . . Oh, Obamacare is already the Law of the land?
never mind.
PS If you think Obamacare is the same as single payer you need a checkup from the neckup.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Our healthcare system is designed to make sure that every penny you have gets taken from you and isn't passed on to your children.
They don't succeed every time, but they win far more often than they lose. Give it another couple of generations and nobody will own anything anymore except for the few who own everything.
Good luck getting healthcare when that day we just stop pretending any of us owns anything comes. You'll only get it if it's cost effective, which will be weighted against how worthwhile you are to fix.
There's a good portion of the people living in this country who already know full well what that feels like. But one day that's going to be everybody.
--------------------------------------------------
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Total health expenditure expected to climb to $8,563 per Canadian in 2022
Quote:
Total health expenditure in 2022 is expected to rise by 0.8%, following high growth of 13.2% in 2020 and 7.6% in 2021. Prior to the pandemic, from 2015 to 2019, growth in health spending averaged 4% per year. It is anticipated that overall health expenditure will represent 12.2% of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022, following a high of 13.8% in 2020.
And
Quote:
The following 3 health spending categories continued to account for the largest shares of health dollars (over half of total health spending) in 2022: Hospitals (24.34%), Physicians (13.60%) and Drugs (13.58%).
But that's only 54% of the total. What about the rest of the 46%?
Still looking into cost increases.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Our healthcare system is designed to make sure that every penny you have gets taken from you and isn't passed on to your children.
They don't succeed every time, but they win far more often than they lose. Give it another couple of generations and nobody will own anything anymore except for the few who own everything.
Good luck getting healthcare when that day we just stop pretending any of us owns anything comes. You'll only get it if it's cost effective, which will be weighted against how worthwhile you are to fix.
Er? Our whole system is designed that way, it seems. But you can always go to community college, or not buy that shit you don't need. But AFA healthcare is concerned, they have a big club to use on you: Pay or die.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME