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<blockquote data-quote="knightablaze" data-source="post: 602111" data-attributes="member: 24580"><p>Dude, did you mean to shoot yourself in the foot?</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>To be sure, Canadians have their complaints about their health care system — about long waits for <strong>elective care</strong>, including appointments with specialists and selected surgical procedures; shortages of doctors and nurses, particularly in <strong>rural areas</strong>; and the growing costs of covering an <strong>aging population</strong>.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>Rural care and aging populations are problems that every western country has to deal with. It's not a particular flaw of one healthcare system. And elective care? Seriously, you can wait for that nose job.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> She </em>[Shona Holmes] <em>spoke of suffering from a brain tumor and declared she would "be dead" had she relied on her government...</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>In a report on its Web site, the Mayo Clinic said Holmes was suffering from a Rathke's cleft cyst near her pituitary gland. The Web sites of several reputable medical groups list the cyst as <strong>non-cancerous</strong>.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"We've heard talk in the U.S. that you may <strong>die here because of long wait times</strong>, you can't choose the doctors or the care you want and that the government makes your health decisions for you, but <strong>none of that is really true</strong>," said Dr. Michael M. Rachlis, a leading Canadian health policy analyst who has written three books about Canada's system.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>Shona Holmes appears to be more of a conservative shill pushing right-wing agendas in a foreign country, as more details of her illness and care get vetted. Not to mention the fact that her surgery was a success.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"It is in fact a very poor health care system that regularly fails Canadians," Nadeem Esmail of the <strong>Fraser Institute</strong>, a conservative Canadian think tank, wrote in a newspaper opinion piece published this month.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>The Fraser Institute is a thoroughly free-market entity. Any comments it would make on a controlled system would be biased in favor of its ideology. They bring up important points regarding lengthening wait times for specialists over the last decade, but fail to mention the Canadian Federal Government's efforts to reform the system.</p><p></p><p>In reading the article, I felt the consensus was that <strong>Canadian Healthcare is an excellent system burdened by the country's rural and aging populations and the substitution of political handwringing for active reform</strong>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="knightablaze, post: 602111, member: 24580"] Dude, did you mean to shoot yourself in the foot? [INDENT][I]To be sure, Canadians have their complaints about their health care system — about long waits for [B]elective care[/B], including appointments with specialists and selected surgical procedures; shortages of doctors and nurses, particularly in [B]rural areas[/B]; and the growing costs of covering an [B]aging population[/B].[/I] [/INDENT] Rural care and aging populations are problems that every western country has to deal with. It's not a particular flaw of one healthcare system. And elective care? Seriously, you can wait for that nose job. [INDENT][I] She [/I][Shona Holmes] [I]spoke of suffering from a brain tumor and declared she would "be dead" had she relied on her government...[/I] [I]In a report on its Web site, the Mayo Clinic said Holmes was suffering from a Rathke's cleft cyst near her pituitary gland. The Web sites of several reputable medical groups list the cyst as [B]non-cancerous[/B].[/I] [I]"We've heard talk in the U.S. that you may [B]die here because of long wait times[/B], you can't choose the doctors or the care you want and that the government makes your health decisions for you, but [B]none of that is really true[/B]," said Dr. Michael M. Rachlis, a leading Canadian health policy analyst who has written three books about Canada's system.[/I] [/INDENT] Shona Holmes appears to be more of a conservative shill pushing right-wing agendas in a foreign country, as more details of her illness and care get vetted. Not to mention the fact that her surgery was a success. [INDENT][I]"It is in fact a very poor health care system that regularly fails Canadians," Nadeem Esmail of the [B]Fraser Institute[/B], a conservative Canadian think tank, wrote in a newspaper opinion piece published this month.[/I] [/INDENT] The Fraser Institute is a thoroughly free-market entity. Any comments it would make on a controlled system would be biased in favor of its ideology. They bring up important points regarding lengthening wait times for specialists over the last decade, but fail to mention the Canadian Federal Government's efforts to reform the system. In reading the article, I felt the consensus was that [B]Canadian Healthcare is an excellent system burdened by the country's rural and aging populations and the substitution of political handwringing for active reform[/B]. [/QUOTE]
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