A story in the liberal Globe and Mail (embarrassingly, you would think) points out another example of what they normally describe as the beautiful socialist health care system in Canada.
Of course, stories like this happen all over the country every day—but I have absolutely no doubt they chose a Newfoundland story because that province happens to be led by a Conservative premier at the moment.
So let’s be clear: The decrepit, failing Canadian socialist health care system is a pure liberal-left invention, run exactly according to their ideological belief system, and largely against the efficient and common sense principles of free enterprise and free markets, to which most true conservatives adhere. OK. Now carry on:
A four-year-old Newfoundland boy who has already lost one kidney to cancer is facing a staggering 2 ?-year wait for a scan on the province’s only magnetic-resonance-imaging machine.
The scan was requested by a geneticist who suspects Ryan Oldford, a rambunctious, blue-eyed blond, has a rare syndrome that puts him at higher risk for leukemia and cancers of the kidney and liver, according to his mother, Brenda Oldford.
[…] As many as 100 children in Newfoundland face 30-month waits for the high-tech scans, said Geoffrey Higgins, clinical chief of diagnostic imaging at the Health Care Corporation of St. John’s.
Now tell me how this doesn’t sound like a bunch of Soviet Union communist bureaucrats nervously discussing the evil capitalist threat leaking into their ungodly socialist nation?
But federal representatives, concerned over the emergence of a private pay system, are meeting in Toronto today with officials from British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia. “User charges and queue-jumping at diagnostic clinics” will be discussed, Health Canada spokeswoman Catherine Saunders said.
A separate meeting with Quebec on allowing patients to pay for medically necessary scans at private clinics will take place later.
Documents from 2004 obtained by The Globe and Mail under the Access to Information Act show that Health Canada is investigating every province over suspected Canada Health Act violations. The list includes patient charges at private high-tech diagnostic clinics, private surgery clinics, specialty referral centres, bone-density scans, surgical supplies and abortion services.
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