Monday 4 September 2017

The Great Canadian Healthcare Dictatorship gains momentum

   There is a steady erosion of health care  but you haven't seen anything yet!   Your government, which states they cannot afford to maintain the current system and has already applied cutbacks that most folks haven't noted yet, including substantial cut backs to physicians and nurses, invites largely inadequately screened immigrants into the country.  They generate huge, and I mean huge expenses to the system in general and to the health care system in particular \while Canadians wait and wait (and sometimes die waiting).  Physicians who can afford to, take an early retirement, or partially retire, while others move to provinces with a more respectful attitude.  Meanwhile, Canada will continue to try to fill the gap by scavanging the world, (particularly the poor countries) for foreign medical graduates whom they can control by restrictive licensing practices.  It is certainly cheaper than training our own, even if it is immoral.
   The dictatorial decree that our political masters have issued, in preventing those who do want to pay for their own care from doing so, is inappropriate.  As a result of this, they force some Canadians to shop abroad and spend their hard earned money supporting out of country health care systems, when it could be so usefully used by ours.  In an attempt to appear politically correct they care not one iota for the distress and suffering they cause to many.      Another example of the idiocy of so -called political correctness!
   Most developed countries do have a two-tiered system, in that those who wish to pay for health care directly or through private insurance are perfectly free to do so.  This injects extra funding into the health care system on a voluntary basis, shortens waiting lists in a very significant number of ways that I will deal with later.  The public generally don't know that there is no shortage of doctors ( surgeons, in particular ) and that the long waiting lists are deliberately construed by government as means of rationing care without appearing to do so by closing down operating rooms and hospital wards.   When challenged, health care administridiots will deviously explain it all as due to lack of support staff as though they were not responsible for the support staff cut-backs.   To simplify, while you the patient, are painfully waiting a year for your hip surgery, there are empty operating rooms and underemployed orthopedic surgeons readily available.   Your government is frivolously spending billions of  your dollars, while our once splendid health care system is embarrassingly at the bottom of list.   Despite all the facts, the government has succeeded in fooling most of the people most of the time.   Don't you wonder how stupid your government is to give a murderer and terrorist ten and a half million dollars when an elderly citizen has to wait a year for a hip replacement?
   Not all of the people are stupid.  Many know that the talk about inequality resulting from a two tiered system is a face saving governmental excuse for presiding over a declining system that they themselves dance around,all the time.  A couple of disgraced senators declared that worse than losing their unearned stipends was losing their 'special' health care benefits.   As a general practitioner in a University Hospital setting, I can't tell you how many times an administrator or their family members presumed special service was their right.   
   It's time for Canadians to wake up and to demand to know how much of our health care budget goes to the self serving administrative classes and how much to actually serving the sick and disabled.
   In the meantime there is a growing private sector in health care that is truly necessary, otherwise why would citizens be prepared to pay for a service they have already paid for through their taxes.  If they were getting what they were promised it wouldn't be necessary.

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