94 % of Canadians support country's healthcare system

[tay]

A new poll conducted by Nanos Research, released today revealed the soaring Canada-wide support, up nearly ten-percent from a similar poll conducted a little over a year ago. Support has risen to a record 94-percent, from a strong showing in August 2010 of 86-percent, underlining that more than nine in ten Canadians support public solutions to making public healthcare stronger.


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Health care: 94% of Canadians - including Conservatives - choose public over for-profit solutions < Health care, Privatization | CUPE

 

[captain morgan]

I wonder what the polls would say had a for-profit medical company commissioned the poll.

 

[SLM]

I wonder what the polls would say had a for-profit medical company commissioned the poll.

I see you put the same kind of faith in 'polls' that I do, lol.

 

[captain morgan]

Yup... That and the notion that this 'poll' only made it to the CUPE website and not the MSM.

That said, I can't imagine that you would have a whole lot of people responding to a poll question that basically says: "do you want free healthcare or would you prefer to pay out of pocket"

It's like issuing a poll question asking if you like to win the lottery or earn $50 million by the sweat of your brow.

Disingenuous at best

 

[petros]

Overpaid and understaffed. We have a wonderful system.

 

[JLM]

I wonder what the polls would say had a for-profit medical company commissioned the poll.

The ironic part is this healthcare system is temporary!

 

[captain morgan]

Overpaid and understaffed. We have a wonderful system.

I would say that the system is over used and with no eye towards responsible use before I would vilify the population that works within it.

 

[SLM]

Yup... That and the notion that this 'poll' only made it to the CUPE website and not the MSM.

That said, I can't imagine that you would have a whole lot of people responding to a poll question that basically says: "do you want free healthcare or would you prefer to pay out of pocket"

It's like issuing a poll question asking if you like to win the lottery or earn $50 million by the sweat of your brow.

Disingenuous at best

All polls raise more questions than answers as far as I'm concerned.

 

[petros]

I would say that the system is over used and with no eye towards responsible use before I would vilify the population that works within it.

There are idiots who run (intended) to ER for a stubbed toe and there are idiots who x-ray stubbed toes knowing they are stubbed toes.

 

[SLM]

There are idiots who run (intended) to ER for a stubbed toe and there are idiots who x-ray stubbed toes knowing they are stubbed toes.

And there are people in ambulances in the ambulance bay because there isn't enough space in the hallways.

That I've seen with my own eyes.

 

[JLM]

We have too much "putting out fires" and too little concern for health. Some people put more value of self destructive practices.

 

[petros]

We have too many whiners. People will go see another Dr if the first one didn't Rx an anitbiotic for a viral infection and now there are something like 8 "superbugs" that are antibiotic resistant.

 

[taxslave]

Other than hospital employee members who got to vote in this poll and what questions were asked?

 

[captain morgan]

We have too many whiners.

Ohhhh.. I have a headache - Should I demand a raft of MRIs and intensive testing?

 

[Cannuck]

People need to stop oversimplifying the problem. It isn't just overpaid and understaffed. It isn't just over use of x-rays for stubbed toes. It isn't just about "putting out fires". It isn't just about whiners and demands of a raft of MRIs and intensive testing. It's all of the above and then some. It's an aging population. It's about increasingly expensive options like organ transplantations. It's about always improving pre-hospital care that keeps more and more people alive after heart attacks and accidents. It's about alot of things.

 

[petros]

People need to stop oversimplifying the problem. It isn't just overpaid and understaffed. It isn't just over use of x-rays for stubbed toes. It isn't just about "putting out fires". It isn't just about whiners and demands of a raft of MRIs and intensive testing. It's all of the above and then some. It's an aging population. It's about increasingly expensive options like organ transplantations. It's about always improving pre-hospital care that keeps more and more people alive after heart attacks and accidents. It's about alot of things.

Heart disease and the death rate from heart attacks has plummeted thanks to improved treament and public awareness. Stubbed toes on the other hand remain at an all time high.

 

[Cannuck]

Heart disease and the death rate from heart attacks has plummeted thanks to improved treament and public awareness.

Yes they have. They have also driven up health care costs. It didn't cost any money to treat somebody that was dead from a heart attack before they got to the hospital. Fifty years ago, an ambulance was little more than a van with a stretcher. Today it's an advanced life support system. Every two bit town has 2 or three AED machines. People that used to die are not dying anymore. It takes money to nurse them back to health or to nurse them while they die more slowly.

 

[petros]

Those are legitimate costs Cannuck. Stubbed toes aren't.

 

[CanIrish]

You want to know how good your health care is in Canada?? Go live somewhere else for a while..
Trust me, your health care is amazing.. protect it.

 

[Cannuck]

Those are legitimate costs Cannuck. Stubbed toes aren't.

I'm not familiar with the medical term "stubbed toe" so I wouldn't know.