Delays drive away sick children, according to a new study. As if it were needed (actually, I guess it is, since Canadians still aren’t convinced), it’s yet more evidence that Canada’s horrible health care system is a mere shadow of that offered in the United States. Of course twenty seven (27) nations in the world offer universal access to health care just like Canada does, but liberals don’t want you to know that—they want you to only think of having to sell your house and go bankrupt, you know, just like all Americans do whenever they get a cold or sprain their ankles, were we to change our ridiculous socialist system one iota.
By the way, Canada spends more than nearly any other of the 27 countries that offer universal access just like Canada does (many without ANY waiting lists), and the health outcomes in Canada are worse than most other countries.
Dozens of sick children leave hospital emergency departments every day without being seen by a doctor because of overcrowding and lengthy waits for care, a new Canadian study suggests.
[…] the “rate of leaving without being seen” was double the median rate recently reported by 18 children’s hospitals in the U.S.
[…] Across Canada, emergency rooms are turning into warehouses for patients who need to be admitted, but are left waiting because of bed shortages in intensive care units and other wards. That backlog leads to delays for subsequent emergency cases.
[…] Researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that, of the 11,087 children seen in emergency between July 1 and Oct. 31, 2002, 289 left without being seen by a pediatrician.
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