Get the picture:
- A Canadian woman waits six years (!!!) for knee replacements.
- The first knee replacement, on her right leg, takes place last October.
- A post-surgery infection sends her from one hospital to another, temporarily, for surgical removal of infected tissue.
- While at the second hospital, her bed at the first hospital is reassigned, so she can't go back there to have the wound closed.
- It takes eight days before she can get back to her primary hospital, by which time her knee has deteriorated so much that she has to settle for amputation of her right leg.
- Now she has to recover from all this before deciding whether to let Canadian health care operate on her left leg.
You can read the full horror story here.
Reading that, I couldn't help thinking what a travesty of justice (not to mention health care) her case has become. None of this was her fault. The delays, the mis-steps, the infections . . . all were the result of the Canadian health care system. I don't see how she can possibly trust them to operate on her other leg, not after this experience! What's the betting they'll offer her euthanasia under their M.A.I.D. program, rather than further surgery?
What would you do if she was one of your loved ones, dear readers? I'm pretty sure your reactions would be similar to mine - and they would not bode well for the health and future prospects of the bureaucrats and medical malpractice maniacs who've put her through all this.
Peter
9 comments:
I live in Ontario, Canada and having repeatedly experienced the mismanaged fustercluck that passes for health care here, I am not surprised by this story.
I too have repeatedly experienced worsening health problems due to multiple months of delays for tests and surgeries and lack of enough doctors and other front line medical providers.
Things continue to worsen here...and I don't have the money/resources/connections to travel out of Canada for first world medical care.
Worth noting is that every health care system has horror stories--juat look at your kidney stone saga, wherein your first surgery was apparently done by an incompetent butcher, for an example.
However, this kind of thing really should put to rest the weird and bizarre notion that the reason why the US system has horror stories at all is because it's for-profit. Rather, it's for-profit nature is why it has the type of horror stories that it does. With single-payer, however, you get horror stories like this.
Pick your poison.
‘Our Enemy, the State’.
All hail Albert Jay Nick.
I live in Manitoba, and while this is unusual, here, it is unfortunate. I to am considering knee replacement here. Still to be decided (by me).
I have zero doubt in my mind that this could happen in the USA as well, but the reasons and accountability (can you spell lawyers), would be vastly different.
My best wishes for bureaucrats and their soulless masters here in the Beautiful land we proudly call Canada, involve hempen rope and crosstrees.
And millions of American's demand Government run healthcare is a Human Right.
We're doomed. Frankly a thinning of the herd seems in order. There's too many stupid people.
The old joke was that Canadians were unarmed Americans with health care. They're still unarmed, but now subject to governmental medical malpractice and who don't stand a chance against "the greater good". Government can be a wise balance when it knows it's place.
The Canadian government has demonstrated it's care and consideration for its subjects during the trucking stand off. Any government that condones and administers euthanasia for said subjects is soulless, immoral and inhumane They can rot. Freeland is gone and petit' pierre is going.
Our government should be afraid of abusing it's citizens. And should be feared by the rest of the world for the same reason.
rick m
Also in the news, Canadian per capita medically assisted suicide rates higher than US per capita firearms deaths.
No one should be surprised that when someone else is responsible for your health care, your health care will be of lower quality.
I believe a lot of Canadians will cross the border to get health care in the USA. How and who pays is not known by me, but let me see if I can get some stats on that. Plus the Canadian dollar is about 70 cents now, so it takes more $$ to get things done here.
Who is the customer? The patient (self pay if possible), the insurance company (does have some accountability), the hospital administrators, the federal bureaucrats? I would argue that a goodly part of the problem lies in the answer to that question. If physicians and hospitals are penalized for "expensive" patient care, well, everyone should know what happens next.
TXRed
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