There is a large difference between defending the government and disagreeing with the white nattys.
I am not a fan of Mr Trudeau
And as HOID has shown us THERE IS A LARGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH..............
and the LIE-BERAL FAKE NEWS HOID PREFERS TO TALK ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is a truly nasty article trying to defend the shameless two tier medicine policy beloved of greedy civil service union Hogs! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Two-tier health system would do wonders to reduce wait times
By DR. BRETT BELCHETZ, Guest Columnist
First posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 04:37 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 04:41 PM EST
TORONTO - We need fundamental change to fix Canadian health-care wait times.
(Yes- and simply CUTTING SERVICES to ordinary people would be a great way of improving service for civil service union HOGS! Its just too bad for the suffering poor who would be abandoned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The Fraser Institute released its annual report last week on wait times for specialist physician care across Canada and. the results, which shocked many Canadians, showed waits in our country to be the longest ever recorded in the survey’s 23-year history.
The median wait time between seeing a family doctor to receiving needed care from a specialist was 20 weeks. In 1993, when the Fraser Institute survey was first conducted, median wait time was only 10 weeks.
In some of the most vital specialties, waits are even longer. For neurosurgery, the worst performer on the Fraser survey, Canadians waited a median of 46.9 weeks — almost a full year — for care.
I share Canadians’ surprise at these numbers, not because the waits are so long, but because in my experience as a frontline emergency room physician, the waits I see are often much worse. I’ve seen a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis wait over six months to see a neurologist, patients with serious skin issues wait a year to see a dermatologist, and patients with chronic back pain wait well over a year to see a spinal surgeon. And my practice is in Toronto, with some of the most available specialist care in the country. I can only imagine what the suffering is like for patients in the more rural areas.
What is particularly heartbreaking is that these waits aren’t due to a lack of physicians. I know dozens of colleagues who can’t find jobs after training for more than a decade to learn their specialties.
(All of these issues come back to one simple problem- cash! LIE-beral govt refuses to spend on health care because it simply does not buy them the number of votes they require! Spending on social issues for special interest groups takes first- and virtually ONLY PRIORITY for LIE-berals!!!!!!)
(LIE-berals have let our roads rot away into pot holed tracks without getting needed maintenance because LIE-berals prefer to give pay raises to Dept of Transport civil service union Hogs!)
(Toronto council has neglected Gardiner Expressway for so long that it may have to
be suddenly dismantled on an emergency basis before it collapses and blocks Lakeshore Blvd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Our sewer and water systems are collapsing - and flooding our roads during storms due to LIE-beral preference for pay raises to water dept instead of needed maintenance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Lie-berals have given gravy to TTC workers instead of building new subways that are desperately needed!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Our hydro grid endures repeated transformer fires from being aged and neglected- in spite of the massive electricity price gouging LIE-berals have done for years!!!!)
(Cdns pay an aggregate total of the highest taxes in the western world and yet we are also HUGELY INDEBTED- with Ontari-owe being the most indebted sub national entity on the planet!!!!!!!!!!)
(LIE-beral spending priorities are SIMPLY WRONG- across the board!!!!!!!!!!)
Stunningly, as of last year, 178 fully trained orthopedic surgeons in Canada were unemployed, according to the Canadian Orthopedic Association and 78% of ear, nose and throat specialists who graduated failed to find a job. This is happening because our health-care system cannot afford to fund the operating rooms or hospital beds required for these badly needed physicians to provide care.
(That statement is WRONG! The truth is that LIE-berals REFUSE to fund the “operating rooms or hospital beds required”! LIE-berals have- as I said- OTHER spending priorities that win them more votes than health care spending!!!!!!!!!!!!)
But the lack of funding isn’t due to a lack of spending. At $4,522 (U.S.) per capita, we spend 33% more on health care than the United Kingdom, where 80% of patients see a specialist in under four weeks. In fact, our wait times are the longest among developed nations, according to the Washington, D.C-based Commonwealth Fund, which found that in the best European health-care systems, only 3% of patients wait more than two months to see a specialist.
(Yes- it is the administrative staff that gets a huge share of govt health care spending! LIE-berals simply cannot explain why the guy signing the cheques to pay the laundry service for clean sheets and pillow cases should ghet paid more than a brain surgeon!)
(IN their zeal to ensure all Cdns have a family doctor- LIE-berals are paying general practitioners a monthly fee to keep you on doctors record books- and yet when emergencies happen in evenings or weekends- most people end up at the hospital emergency room while the “family doctor” is in bed or on Sunday afternoon golf course - pocketing monthly fees for doing NOTHING- it equals double billing by muddled LIE-berals more focused on appearance than reality!!!!)
Europeans get a better bang for their buck because every country allows private care to flourish alongside their universal public health-care system and get at least 20% of their health care privately. In Ontario, with its $52-billion health-care budget, we could save $10 billion annually by emulating the ratio of 20% private care — enough to wipe out our deficit and still have $5 billion left over for public health care.
(Oh that is a NICE line of LIE-beral jiggery pokery! Only a HOG would suggest that it is acceptable that Cdns be so heavily taxed when healthy- and then ABANDONED when weak and ill!! LIE-berals talk so often about justice and fairness and equity- but clearly LIE-berals DO NOT OWN A DICTIONARY and do not recognize the quality of their HYPOCRITE SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!)
We are the only country in the developed world that prevents its citizens from purchasing care the government can’t provide in a timely manner. It’s clear our system needs a fundamental, top-to-bottom rethink, not just more of the same.
(It is fundamental LIE-beral bigotry and shameless vote buying that brought us to this point and now Belchetz wants to insist that only an EVEN MORE EXTREME SELFISH SCHEME will save us? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)
(And most Cdns live within 100 miles of the Yankee border -and Yank doctors will sell us ANY medical procedure we can pay for! Yet Belchetz ignores Yankee medical opportunities- user pay health care IS readily available to Cdns with cash so why is Belchetz ignoring it- unless its because he is trying to set up a grossly dishonest sort of two tier medicine here!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. When it comes to healthcare in Canada, we’ve done a phenomenal job of proving Einstein correct.
(And two tier health care would simply CONFIRM that definition of insanity! The cure for health care bigotry is NOT more bigotry! It is the pensions offered to our civil service and the gravy handed out to LIE-beral pals that prevents us from BUYING the better health care we need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
— Dr. Belchetz is an ER physician and a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute
(And apparently Belchetz is something of a blinkered and politically blinded LIE-beral bigot as well! Two tier medicine deserves to be publicly scorned- along with the selfish Hogs who are promoting it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)