Re: The Bull*** Parade

From: fresh~horses (fresh~horses_at_despammed.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: 9 Aug 2004 09:00:18 -0700

"Happy Dog" <happydog@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<NiDRc.7241$Mq1.344313@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> "Robert" <Robert@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:10hcvec6d7op1f@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > "Bob (this one)" <Bob@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > > Funny thing. I have family in Canada, some involved in medicine. I
> > > know some others also involved. I know lots more who aren't medfolk.
> > > They all together don't seem to be anywhere near as worked up about
> > > their system as most Americans seem to be. They have the choice of
> > > having the state system or paying for whatever else they'd prefer.

Bob

Explanation for the wait times is simple and short: Conservative
government cutbacks to funding=longer waiting times=the conservative
agenda: open private clinics. However, these private for profit
clinics receive public fudning, thereby strangling the public system
further, and skim off the best medical personnel. Often for-profit
facilities are owned by former conservative party cabinet ministers
and physician consortia.

Zee

 

Those private clinics not only charge fee for service but receive
public funding as well.

> >
> > It's either the hurry up and wait system or pay 100% for whatever they
> need
> > outside the system.
>
> Exactly. I don't know any edical care workers who are much less than
> appalled by the waiting times in Canada. It's stressful for hospital staff
> who are under constant pressure from sick and injured people to explain why
> access to services is so abysmally slow.
>
> moo

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