No options?
Here’s an option: let private enterprise—enterprising Canadians, innovative people—save our healthcare system, and save people from having to live lives of pain and misery as a direct result of this liberal-left ideological morass.
Liberals are against that.
And there are options to fix that too.
Painkiller addiction stemmed from long surgery wait
CBC News
[May 30 2005]CALGARY — After waiting more than a year to have her knee replaced, Susan Warner finally had the surgery — but not before becoming addicted to a powerful drug needed to help manage her pain.
Now, five months after her surgery, Warner is still trying to wean herself off Oxycontin, a highly-addictive painkiller.
“I take them now to feel half-human,” Warner said. “If I don’t take the drugs, I can’t function at all. I’m still withdrawal-ing. I’m still on edge, I’m still irritable.”
And her doctor says she prescribed the medication knowing that her patient could become hooked.
“I’m not sure Susan’s story is exceptional,” Dr. Elaine Harris said.
Faced with a 16-month wait for knee replacement surgery, and Warner’s need to keep working as a self-employed photographer, Harris first prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs and codeine, but they didn’t help.
So she turned to the powerful Oxycontin.
“I think, having made all the other choices and tried all the other things, we were looking at a very long wait with someone who needed to work,” Harris said. “There were no other options.
“It was clearly not her choice to be on this medication. She didn’t see any other way around it. I didn’t have any options to offer her for pain management, and we ended up in this pickle and struggling.”
Harris says family physicians are placed in a difficult position, trying to manage the long-term pain of patients who won’t get surgical relief for months and months.
Warner says she doesn’t blame Harris or the surgeon for her predicament, but says those who let the situation get to a point where long waits for surgeries are the norm are responsible.
At first it may strike you as odd that the state-run CBC would carry this story, since, to sensible people, it’s manifestly another argument against our North Korean-style healthcare system, which the liberal-left live for. But here’s the thing: the liberal-left don’t see things this way. To them, this is an argument in favour of spending more taxpayer billions on our state-run, North Korean-style healthcare system.
And that’s why the CBC carried this story.
And liberal Canadian sheep voters are deaf dumb and blind to the solution because the liberal-left in this country doesn’t permit an honest debate about our healthcare system and how to fix it. Even the “honorable” Ujjal Dosanjh, the minister of health, perpetuates the lie and promulgates the dishonest debate. So the sheep see this as another “no options” predicament.
Twenty eight countries in the world have universal-access healthcare systems and at least a half dozen of them have no waiting lists. None spend more than Canada does, which is the biggest spender (waster) in all the world, while getting some of the worst healthcare outcomes. The other countries all spend less, and all welcome, to one degree or another, private enterprise in their healthcare systems for the delivery of healthcare to their people.
Why won’t liberals let private enterprise fix our healthcare system? The liberals aren’t afraid it won’t work—they’re afraid it will work. That would expose them and their hellacious mother-of-all-social-programs as the utter calamity that it is, and reveal them and their whole ideology as the farce that it is.
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