Dr. Brian Day

[FIXWCBCANADA]

injured jan 2003 received 1st MRI 3 yrs after injury;

received 2nd mri june 2006

received 3rd mri jan 2010

bankrupted by canadian medical system

5 ortho surgeons and 3 neurosurgeons all missed spinal injury;

over 100 doctors to date, wcb still disputing spinal injury

have received FÀ from WCB and am going to USA for medical care;

my friends brother died last week waiting for heart operation

my mother was killed by our good old canadian healthcare system

i`ve had 5 friends die waiting 4 diagnose

[MadHabber93]

@FIXWCBCANADA Now its 5 friends who died?? Every time you post you lose any, which is barely a trace, of creditibility you 'may' have. Too bad MRI wait times are measured in days for non-urgent care in your province. SOmething I"VE PROVEN, unlike your HORSESHIT stories that you can't even begin to prove. Ass.

[FIXWCBCANADA]

MADHABBER93 is a liar, due some research you loser, here is a doctor trying to help sick and injured and the government is filing a lawsuit against him; If you want proof, my mother died waiting for diagnose and treatment; I waited 5 years for an MRI; and am being denied surgery; Canada Healthcare just killed my friends 45 yr old brother who needed heart surgery, funerals thursday nov 2010; watch the Heather Sandstrom u-tube video; what good is universal healthcare when your DEAD; taxed to death

[MadHabber93]

@FIXWCBCANADA Me do research?Funny, you provide nothing but bullshit ancedotal stories that can't be verified, and I'm the liar?As I've pointed out, the Heather Sandstrom video is opinioniated B.S. This doctor is a dick, who cares for nothing more then the almighty dollar. He's being investigated by the province of B.C. for double billing the patient and the system TWICE for the same procedures.He owns the largest for PROFIT clinic in Canada. NO ONE WAITS 5 years for an MRI, I waited 10 days!!

[MadHabber93]

@FIXWCBCANADA And in one posting you claim you waited 3 years, then the next posting you claim 5 years?? Which lie is the right one?? Nice one sunshine.

[MadHabber93]

FixWCB is pigeonholing an entire system based on his troubles with his workman's comp claim that is handling his care. His beef should be with them not the Canadian system. His claim of waiting 3 years is b.s. The wait times in the province he lives in is immediate for emergency cases, and 32 days for others. Proof is in the pudding.

health.gov.sk. ca/diagnostic-imaging-mri-wait­-times

[FIXWCBCANADA]

TOOK ME 3 YEARS TO GET AN MRI? NOW I AM LEFT WITH NEUROPATHIC PAIN AND HAVE HAD MY HEALTH RUINED; PEOPLE DIE EVERYDAY WAITING FOR TIMELY DIAGNOSE AND TREATMENT; THANKS FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW CANADA;S HEALTHCARE KILLS SICK AND INJURED;

WITH THE HIGHEST TAXES ANYWHERE YOU'D THINK WE COULD GET SOMETHING FOR OUR MONEY; NOT HAPPENING; WHEN INJURED ON THE JOB; LOOKOUT EVERYTHING IS DENIED SO YOU NEVER GET HELP;

CANADA'S HEALTHCARE IS LEGALIZED FRAUD / INSURANCE RACKETEERING

[FIXWCBCANADA]

TOOK ME 3 YEARS TO GET AN MRI? NOW I AM LEFT WITH NEUROPATHIC PAIN AND HAVE HAD MY HEALTH RUINED; PEOPLE DIE EVERYDAY WAITING FOR TIMELY DIAGNOSE AND TREATMENT; THANKS FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW CANADA;S HEALTHCARE KILLS SICK AND INJURED;

WITH THE HIGHEST TAXES ANYWHERE YOU'D THINK WE COULD GET SOMETHING FOR OUR MONEY; NOT HAPPENING

[murphyj87]

Brian Day is a fraud and a front for the American insurance lobby. He has a financial stake in spreading false propaganda about Canadian hedalth acre. The fact is that 98% of Canadians avoid private clinic like Brian Day runs like the plague, as 98% of Canadians reject inferior American insurance run health acre and similarly reject an inferior American style inusrance run and insurance rationed system for Canada. BrianDay is a shill for the American insurance industry.

[jagjava]

Well I think that things are going to start improving as the Conservatives seem to be putting more money into health care after all the cut backs the Liberals did. Still given a choice, I'd much rather have our system than the US one.

[chrisarthur77]

I would think that the US would look to Canada because according to the WHO we have better health care. They could look to France which is ranked first as well. Alternatively, if they didn't want to improve too much they could look to Costa Rica or Dominica or Chile all of which have better health outcomes than the US.

On a value scale the US would come out dead last. It is not included in the sources the good doctor cites.....wonder why he doesn't use sources that also look at the US?

[chrisarthur77]

The reasons for the low ranking given by the doctor (lack of market influence) are the opposite of the source he cites (consumer powerhouse group), which finds that the individual and not the public pays too much for medicine.

[happydj2003]

there is nothing in the Hippocratic Oath about being "non-profit", or offering services as a monopoly to the government. what entitles some to think they should get the hard-earned skills of a physician for free? it takes 15 years of grueling work and avg of 250k to become a doctor. All others in society has the right to be motivated by profit?? why shouldn't a doctor? a doctor is sworn to the Hippocratic Oath, not to the communist manifesto as socialist free-loaders would like to advertise.

[mahalcat]

@happydj2003 this doctor feels he deserves even more that one payment for a procedure he thinks he deserves two! This Doctor is under investigation in Canada for double billing. His clinics are billing the gov't and the patients for one procedure.

All he cares about is money!!! He LIES, LIES, LIES!!!!!

[mj1890]

Wipe your mouth Dr. Day, you're talking Sh*t

[johncgaiser]

Can you tell what is "shit" exactly. When I ask, no one will tell me.

[mj1890]

Calling patients consumers, and using the word "choice" when his real aim is Profit.

[johncgaiser]

In a free market the "consumer" employs choice over products and services they consume. A doctor goes to great expense to educate themselves for at least 8 years. Why shouldn't a doctor seek a return on their investment?

Why should a doctor not seek to profit from his/her expertise?

What is your profession? Did you go to a school or seek education for your profession? Did you invest a considerable amount of time learning your profession?

Why would you not seek profit from your skill?

[johncgaiser]

Should an artist not seek compensation for their art?

[mj1890]

In many countries medical students are subsidised, although I dont know the situation in the states. My issue is not his personal need to make money, its is promotion of a private healthcare SYSTEM that treats patients as consumers, and disguises its greed (profiting as much as possible from ill heath) as "choice".

[johncgaiser]

Patients are consumers in the United States. That is its strength. We have choice as a consumer. Your assertion that a doctor should not promote profit for ill health is equivalent to the food industry marketing to the hungry.

The private health care industry should treat patients as consumers.

[mj1890]

"The private health care industry should treat patients as consumers". Enjoy!

Patients should be treated as patients. How many Canadians/Brits worry about health insurance? None.

Long live nationalised healthcare. Long live the NHS.

[mkroehler65]

Which is why we treat so many of them here in the US...

[mj1890]

no you dont . . .

[mkroehler65]

Yeah, we do... Including a friend of mine from Calgary, who is a cancer survivor, thanks to the care she was actually able to get in the US.

If you're happy with your system, good for you. But none of my friends in Canada or the UK are happy with it and recommend that we'd be better off with our current system.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 You don't know any more than 3 Canadians then. 97% of Canadians prefer the Canadian health care system that we've had for 45 years and totally reject American insurance run health care as totally inferior.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Yeah, I actually do know more than 3 canadians. Just out of curiosity, what's your source for the 97% figure?

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 The source is polls on the opinions of Canadians..

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Which poll? Where would I find these results?

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Correction, for every Canadian who goes to the United States for treat ment there are 1000 Americans who cross the border into Canada for health care. On a per capita basis, we treat 10,000 Americans in Canada for every Canadian treated in the United States.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Interesting statistic. Can you prove it?

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Yes, that is the data from comparing the data from Canadian hospitals compared to data from Amercian hospitals.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Where would I be able to confirm this data?

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Poll real Canadians.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Which confirms that your 97% satisfaction figure is pure BS.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 It sure beats the 26% satisfaction of Amercians with American insurance run health care. If you knew any real Canadian ypu would know that well over 9 in 10 totally rect American health care and the same number would totally reject any effort to introduce an American style insurance run system in Canada.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Which has nothing to do with my asking you to provide proof, regarding all of these statistics you keep throwing out. I bet you can't even substantiate that number, can you? Read it off a blog somewhere or just made the number up I suppose. If you can't substantiate what you're saying, then don't bother replying.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Canadians know what Canadians think You have no idea what Canadians think, since you only know a hgandful of Canadians. I would put my heaq;th ac re directly up agaist yours and mine would be far better than yours, and far betetr tah I had hwen I lived in two states during the 7 years I lived in the US. When I lived in the US, the health care I had was garbage compared to the health care I have in Canada. Until you use Canadian health care, you don't know what you're talking about.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 You're hilarious! You honestly think you know what every other Canadian thinks. Good thing the other 34 million or so have you to provide such guidance and advice. Certainly wouldn't want them to think for themselves...

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 They do think and what they do think is that American health acre is garbage compared to what we have in Canada. You know a handful of Canadians and you claim to know more about Canadians than someone who lived in Canada for 52 out of 59 years . American so called "health care" is a laughingstock outside of the United States.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 No, I never claimed to know more about Canadians than anyone else. I just find it comical that you claim to know everything, about all of them.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 I know thousands of times more Canadians than you do, and I know what Canadians think a thousand time more than you do too. You know nothing about Canadian health care and you know nothing of what Canadians think about it. Canadians ridicule Anerican insurance run health care as rotten third world health care and Canadians want nothing to do with inferior Ameriacn insurance run health care.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Except for the couple hundred or so Canadians that I know who hate the Canadian system. But, I forgot, you are the expert on what Canadians think.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Yes I am, for sure, compared to you You know no such thing about Canadians. Any of those Canadians you quote would have worse health care if they went to the United States,and would gripe ten times more about American insurance run health care than they do about Canadian health care, especially when they realize that insurance company bureaucrats, not physicians, were making their medical decisions in the US.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Those Canadains would not walk, they would run back to Canada once they actually found out how bad American insurance run health care was. Canadians know that physicians make theor health care decisions in Canada. Canadians run away from American health care as soon as they realize that insurance company bureaucrats, not physicians, decide it they get treatment or not, and what treatment they get, regardless of what their physician says.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Canadians know that we have far better health care than Amercians have. Insurance company bureaucrats, not physicians, make themedical decisions for Amercians, thus American insurance run health care is vastly inferior to what Canadian have.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 The fact that you have no idea how 97% real Canadians think is obvious by your total lack of knowledge of the status quo, where 1.5 million Amercians come to Canada for health care and 1.75 million Americans go to Mexico for teatment.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 No, the fact that you freely make up figures to support your own opinion is the problem. As for knowing any "real" Canadians, I have many Canadian friends, acquaintances and co-workers in several provinces and none of them are happy with the Canadian insurance program. If you're happy with the program, good for you. Just don't expect the rest of us to blindly follow you...

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Anywhere that people are denied health care as they are in the United States, and where insurance company bureaucrats, not physicians, make medical decisions, as happens in the United States is inferior, third world health care like the United States has when compared to what we have.

[execk2]

Day is a sell out to insurance and drug companies. Thankfully there is no merit to his darwin thinking. The whole world except the US is social medicine. The US AMA and drug companies spend so much time and energy trying to prove why the CDN system doesn't work, yet we live longer, less diseases, medical costs are 2/3 less than in the US.......... you get it? Day is a sell out! Send him to the states. His clinic does facelifts! Who cares!

[mj1890]

American Socialism: Bailing out $3 trillion of toxic debt, but afraid of free healthcare.

[creaturesGREATnSmall]

There is no such thing as FREE anything.

Especially health care. As someone who lived in Canada for a few years, let me tell you...the system doesn't work, and this is right where Obama wants to take Americans. You jerks who listen to all his rhetoric on nationalizing health care like its the utopian dream come true, will be singing a different tune if health care is socialized here like it is in Canada. Its not FREE when you have to pay with a shortened life!!

[mj1890]

Mate, I live in a country with nationalised healthcare, so I won't be changing my tune.

Tommy Douglas.

[execk2]

Well as a Canadian that lives in this country I can testify that it does work very well thank you very much. It's absolutely amazing the US trying to make it look bad to protect special interest when in fact it works great. Why do people live on 30 second snippets and make a decision on it. It works great, and we live longer than Americans and it costs 2/3 less than the US. Works? You bet! Dr. Day is a sell out to business and insurance.

[execk2]

"Its not FREE when you have to pay with a shortened life!! ", Are you retarded? Canadians, as others in countries with govt run health care live longer than Americans. So what' your point other than being idiotic?

[murphyj87]

@creaturesGREATnSmall 97% of Canadian disagree with you.

[execk2]

Propaganda, Brian Day is surely biased he runs a for profit clinic. This is nothing more than an insurance company movement to protect their cushy coverages. Pfft...what a joke this is!

[johncgaiser]

Can you accurately make your case that what day is claiming is false? The fact that he may run a for profit firm is irrelevant and has no weight on his truthfulness.

[execk2]

Come on.....are you an idiot?

[johncgaiser]

LOL. Nice. :)

[murphyj87]

@johncgaiser Yes, as a Canadian I can tell you that what the says is totally false.

[blanckepi]

Two words that would make health care much more affordable in the USA:

Tort reform!

Trial lawyers, ones like 2004 Democrat VP candidate John Edwards, have driven up the cost of health care in the USA with all of their ambulance-chasing frivolous law suits. Of course, these same trial lawyers are big-time donors to the Democrats.

Both work hand in hand to make the US health care system overly expensive, so that then the Democrats can ram through their power-grab agenda so as to "save" us.

[johncgaiser]

So, your either dying waiting for national health care or dying because you cant afford private health care.

Is that right?

[typhonsentra]

It's just a propaganda film.

[johncgaiser]

You think it's a lie?

[typhonsentra]

You can just as easily find video of doctors defending the system. Besides that, if the healthcare is so abysmal there why aren't there more people over there working to drastically change the system? It's common sense.

[TheOriginaKrillinFan]

There is.

[TheOriginaKrillinFan]

Funny thing is, they said the same about the other side of the Berlin Wall way back when. Certain media elements CENSORED what is shown, and that's a fact, and it's the same here: we only know what they LET us know unless we do some searching of our own and call them on it.

[TheOriginaKrillinFan]

And you're saying that governments DON'T use propaganda? Whatever, man. I've heard all kinds of stories of how something easily treatable has escalated into something AWFUL simply because the GOVERMENT decided they weren't worth the money to treat something so "minor", and even after it gets worse, they get wait listed.

[murphyj87]

@TheOriginaKrillinFan It's insurance company bureaucrats wedged between Americans and their physicians who do that. 1200, hip replacements were done in Canada in 2008 on people 85 years of age or older. People in Canada get excellent treatment regardless of income or age.

[murphyj87]

@TheOriginaKrillinFan You have no idea what you're talking about. You're just listening to the lying propaganda of the insurance company bureaucrats who run the US health care system. try listening to people in the nations you demean, they'll tell you that what you said is totally false.

[redscrollproductions]

False dichotomy

[murphyj87]

@johncgaiser No one dies frorm lack of access to health care in Canada. In the US, on the other hand 45,000 Amercians die from lack of access to health care. Millions of Americians are on waiting lists of decades waiting for Medicare (should they survive that long) to have treatment and surgery they should have had decades before.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 Don't tell Liam Neeson that.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Well that's the case. Ambulance attendents in theUS can't force people into an ambulance against their will in the US any more than they can in Canada. Natasha Richardson would have been as dead in the US as she was in Canada becaue she refused to get into an ambulance and refused medical aid.

[murphyj87]

@johncgaiser Most Canadians have treatment and surgery long before an American can get approval from the insurance company bureaucrat who makes medical decisions for Amercians wheter they can have the treatment of surgery or not.

[mkroehler65]

@murphyj87 This was fun, but I'm growing tired of the misinformation coming from our "friend" in Canada. Numerous studies have shown that most procedures take far longer in Canada. The Canadian Gov't and the Wait Time Alliance are trying to get it fixed. And, for those who get in to see a doctor, Medical Mistakes are the third leading cause of death (behind Cancer and Heart Disease) according to the CMA. Most major polls show that only 50-60% of Canadians are "satisfied" with their healthcare.

[mkroehler65]

@mkroehler65 And, it that weren't enough, the architect of the entire system, Claude Castonguay, admitted to a government committee, back in 2008, that the Canadian Health Care System was in "crisis". "We thought we could resolve the system's problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: "We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice."

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 Claude Castanguay had absolutely nothing to do with the entire system. He was a minor player in Quebec whose advice was rejected. There is no crisis in Canadian health care, but there is in American insurance run health care, which is imploding right now. Quoting Claude Castanguay about Canadian health care is of no more use than quoting Mickey Mouse about Canadian health care.

[murphyj87]

@mkroehler65 You mean the AMA that says that medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer. This is the United States that you are talking about. The Journal of the Amercian Medical Association says that 225,000 Amercians die from medical mistakes each year, many from unecessary surgery and many from cancers caused by excessive and indescriminate use of CT Scans in the US.