Public Health

At this point, should anyone be surprised? At this point, Canadians should be demanding once and for all improvements and changes be made to public health (building a Superhospital is not the answer for the problem is one of mindset). At this point, I don't know how anyone can suggest we have "the best" health care system in the world and keep a straight face.

Yawn. Par for the course. Everyone with a pistachio for a brain knows bureaucrats decide; not doctors.

"The root cause of the problem, according to the physicians, is a government advisory body that does not have a single oncologist sitting on its board to properly evaluate the latest generation of so-called biological anti-cancer drugs.

What is worse, say Gerald Batist of the Jewish General Hospital and Normand Blais of Notre Dame Hospital, is that the Conseil du medicament appears to be more concerned about keeping costs down than saving or extending the lives of cancer patients."

Like I've said over and over and over and over and over and time and again here, our system is not compassionate; it's cost-centric.

It really doesn't take a genius to observe this.

Next!

***

The other myth that was obliterated once and for all is that there are no "queue jumping" in the public system. If you believed that and only came to realize this because of the doctor bribe story, again, you have a pistachio for a brain.

You really thought politicians and athletes and other celebrities above the masses are going to wait six months to see a doctor? What's wrong with you? My wife, meanwhile, has been waiting two months just to see a gyna for a special issue that needs attention now. She can't wait until February. We're now looking at going to Vermont.

Welcome to Canada. Where shortages abound.