Since I wrote my column this week, more annoying facts keep piling on—annoying only for liberals, as almost all facts are because they get in the way of a good bit of liberal-leftist dogma. My column this week was about the patently dishonest Liberal minister of health Ujjal Dosanjh and his mendacity around the issue of Canada’s decrepit socialist health care system. He and his liberal-left associates and supporters perpetuate the scandalous prohibition against an honest debate about healthcare in this country. And they seem to insist Canada remain a socialist backwater at the expense of human life and health.
I’d said that most people want to see private enterprise be allowed into Canada’s healthcare system to save it. Not a day later, the National Post presents a survey proving that the majority of Canadians want private enterprise in their healthcare system (blogged here).
Our Barbara Kay’s column today touches on the PET scan (not for pets) which is shamefully all but absent in this backward socialist nation but available most everywhere else.
Here’s a snippet of her column:
Some of the good news derives from Positron Emission Tomography (PET)—which snoops around in our innards at the molecular level, effecting early detection, monitoring and follow-up of cancer as no other technology ever has or could. What an anatomical Computed Tomography (CT) scan “stages” as inoperable, a PET scan, delving deeper, may find operable. It’s fair to say that PET scans—of proven benefit and widely obtainable elsewhere for a decade—can literally make the difference between life and death. Yet Canada is the only country in the developed world where PET scans are not routinely available to its citizens.
If I were diagnosed with cancer, I’d want the same standard of diagnostic, monitoring and follow-up care that patients in the U.S., Japan, Western Europe and Australia take for granted.
Then there’s Nadeem Esmail, who knows more about Canada’s—and the world’s—healthcare systems than most humans, and who wrote an editorial (also now in our Columnist section) about Ujjal Dosanjh’s, shall we say “lack of forthrightness” when he spoke last week, as I quoted in my column this week, about Canada’s healthcare system.
Here’s snippet from Nadeem Esmail’s editorial:
On Monday, Canada’s Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh made the remarkable claim that “Canada’s health system compares favourably to other OECD (the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries in terms of access and health outcomes.” A look at the readily available data on Medicare’s comparative performance suggests that Mr. Dosanjh is sorely misinformed. In reality, Canadians have little to be proud of with regard to their very expensive Medicare program.
Data on the availability of medical technologies suggest that Canadians are actually receiving dismal access to care when compared to their counterparts in other developed nations that guarantee access to care regardless of ability to pay.
I find it galling that our minister of health—the man from which we should naturally expect and demand nothing short of an honest debate—is being a promoter of dishonest debate—and being nothing short of a slimy, dishonest liberal hack, promoting socialism against common sense and the better health of our countrymen. It is, as I said in my piece, a scandal of mammoth proportion that we can’t, because of liberal lies, have an honest debate about our healthcare system in this country. Sensible people will demand better.
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