The Lindsay McCreith Story

Timely Medical Alternatives helps Lindsay McCreith of Ontario get urgent brain surgery in Buffalo, NY.

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• health
• care
• canada
• single
• payer

[Konig1985]

whats the point of free if govt cannot provide it lol

[pranays]

You are full of shit again under the Canada health act only youre Doctor and you get to decide what kind of medical service you need. The only time the government gets involved is if you leave the country the government decide if they will pay for medical done out of state. That include your lie about elderly and the knee and hip surgery, you are a huge liar and Reich wing propagandises you cannot win a debate with lies in Canada only in the USA were lying is second nature to you right wingers.

[cordovamx]

My friend, your attitude towards the Canadian health care system fits the definition of close-mindedness.

[cordovamx]

because having the government make those decisions is so much better right?

[cordovamx]

lol why would you remove your own comments then?

GDP does NOT include population densities, it is simply a measurement of the goods and service provided by a country. A freshman level college statistics class teaches that.

No cherry picking here; the information is out there and I simply read, and understood it.

You know you miserably lost this debate, thats why you still have yet to present facts other than opinion- but hey, you enjoy your health care. Ignorance sure must be bliss...

[pranays]

% of GDP takes the population difference into consideration so yes it is a fair compression. It would not be a fair comparison if it was a straight dollar value, you dont seem to understand anything or you simply deny facts to prove yourself right. Your arguments are weak so you have to rig the debate. Im done with you and this will be my last post you so full of shit. Info cherry picking how very Bush and Cheney of you.

[cordovamx]

Trolling can be defined as one who purposely insights arguments for no other sake than arguing, one who swears, rants and raves and does not contribute to the discussion and one who speaks maliciously to others. I have done nothing of the sort, you have done all of the above. (hence the reason why nearly all of your comments have been deleted from the thread, none of mine have been removed.)

[cordovamx]

After years of government control the Canadian medical system is badly injured and bleeding citizens' hard-earned tax dollars. The institute compared health care systems in the industrialized countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and found Canada currently spends the most, yet ranks among the lowest on indicators like access to physicians, quality of medical equipment, and key health outcomes. (July 2004 Vancouver FI "Paying, More, Getting Less")

[cordovamx]

Canadians also have less children, so naturally, your infant mortality rate is going to be lower than ours. Canada: 330,000 a year; the US: 4,096,335a year. Even when adjusted for population densities we still have more births annually, so obviously our infant mortality rate will be higher. Still, it is not a criteria for ranking a health system as socio-economics between our two countries vary so widely.

[cordovamx]

Infant mortality rate is not a measure of a countries health system, there are far too many factors that play into such a statistic to rate a health care system upon it as a solo value. However, probably one of the best ways to measure the wellness of a health system is in "responsiveness", a measurement of how quickly and effectively a health system caters to patients, and how quickly those patients recover. In the WHO report the US ranked #1, while Canada ranked #7.