A reader (hat tip: Ross M.) found this in his local paper, the ChronicleHerald.ca (an independent?) this morning. It speaks volumes about the abject failure of our decrepit North-Korean-style healthcare system.
When Roy Romanow’s wife fell down the stairs and suffered a serious facture [SIC] to her left arm, she stayed two days in hospital before undergoing a complex operation. But as much as he would have appreciated seeing a doctor help her immediately, neither he nor his wife had a problem waiting.
“Our instinct, of course, is to protect our loved ones,” the former Saskatchewan premier said Thursday at Dalhousie University in Halifax after a lecture on Canada’s health-care system.
“Of course I’d like to see my wife (treated) but she came out of it well, and if somebody else was saved because he or she needed the care beforehand, so be it.
“We can’t all be treated for all of our illnesses, all the time. … The reality is there will always be wait lists.”
[…]
The headline was “Romanow: wait lists a fact of hospital life”.
They left out the words “
…in Canada, but not everywhere else, despite the fact that 27 other countries have universal-access healthcare just like Canada does, and at least a half a dozen of them have NO WAITING LISTS, all spend less money on their systems, have at least as good a healthcare outcome, and all are private enterprise or at best mixed systems, and Canada is alone in the world at prohibiting its citizens, by law, from spending their own money on their own basic healthcare needs and that of their families—except for Cuba and North Korea, which also does.
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Admittedly that would make for a long headline. But, see, it tells the full story, whereas the article most certainly does not. (That’s where the liberal media says “oops” and moves on to the next story.)
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