Evidently, they’re either confused and don’t realize how wonderful nationalized health care is, or else they’re most likely racists.
I mean, what other excuse can these confused, likely racist ingrates offer for fleeing free shit provided them by goodly and beneficent statists whose goodliness and beneficence is self-evident, given the free shit they’re providing in a goodly and beneficent way? To confused racists?
Daily Caller:
A Canadian study released Wednesday found that many provinces in our neighbor to the north have seen patients fleeing the country and opting for medical treatment in the United States.
The nonpartisan Fraser Institute reported that 46,159 Canadians sought medical treatment outside of Canada in 2011, as wait times increased 104 percent — more than double — compared with statistics from 1993.
Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10 provinces reported an average total wait time of 19 weeks between the time a general practitioner refers a patient and the time a specialist provides elective treatment — the longest they have ever recorded.
In 2011, Canadians enrolled in the nation’s government-dominated health service waited long periods of time for an estimated 941,321 procedures. As many as 2.8 percent of Canadians were waiting for treatment at any given time, according to the Institute.
“In some cases, these patients needed to leave Canada due to a lack of available resources or a lack of appropriate procedure/technology,” according to the Institute. “In others, their departure will have been driven by a desire to return more quickly to their lives, to seek out superior quality care, or perhaps to save their own lives or avoid the risk of disability.”
Increases in the number of patients leaving Canada for treatment were seen in seven of the ten Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
“Some of these patients will have been sent out of country by the public health care system due to a lack of available resources or the fact that some procedures or equipment are not provided in their home jurisdiction,” the report concluded.
Oh, I see: the ingrates are fleeing because the free stuff being provided them by goodly and beneficent statists isn’t good enough for them. Typical of the flaccid masses, getting their cake and then actually wanting to eat it, too.
It’s enough to make a goodly and beneficent central planner despise the masses he otherwise champions. Out of goodliness and beneficence.
A good move on their part.
I see Alberta (where my parents live) isn’t on the list. I wonder how much variation there is between provinces when it comes to administration and the resultant quality of care.
My dad turned 80 a couple years ago, and just since then he was found to have bladder cancer, with surgery to remove some small tumors pretty quickly (within six weeks as I remember), and got an artificial knee installed.
Still, this is in no way advocacy for national health care. Canadians pay stupid high taxes, and I have no doubt they benefit from America’s innovations and technological advancements that will come to a grinding halt with our adoption of national health care.
Natasha Richardson was unavailable for comment.
– Theres another pressure on the bogus Canadian system they failed to mention. I recall some years ago hearing about the “nursing crisus” due to so many graduates migrating south for better paying jobs. Could be thats improved but with government control I doubt it.
OT: 6 charts that show the Welfare State run amok
Oh, I see: the ingrates are fleeing because the free stuff being provided them by goodly and beneficent statists isn’t good enough for them.
How long before the “rich” go to Japan, etc. and we hear complaints of the lack of “fairness” ?
My sister decided that registering for bone-marrow was a bad idea because wealthy people might target you for organs. Now, I admit she has a few screws loose, but how far-fetched is it, really?
In my case, I don’t think anyone would want my parts. I’m using them up.
This is news? Patients, doctors, nurses and actors have been fleeing/escaping for almost as long as I can remember.
As it was foreseen, so shall it be.
Can we call the Democratic party the “Creepy Party” yet???
I am informed by a very superior progressive on twitter that those were all rich people who simply didn’t want to wait their turns. You know how there’s no real rush with medical diagnosis and treatment, right?
“First violent crimes, then theft, tax evasion, false advertising, and even traffic violations became punishable by the organ banks.”
– So they installed OR’s in every traffic court. DUI’s cost you a fine of a kidney, texting while driving, just a lung.
richard mcenroe says July 12, 2012 at 1:02 pm
When you’re up against a death panel, there’s a reason to panic and flee.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/25/ontario-health-care-%E2%80%94-constantly-climbing-cost-ever-worsening-service/
– In truth, it probably won;t come to anything like that senario. Medical science now has stem cell “growth armatures” for many organs. They are grown quickly from your own cells. Complete functioal organs. The list grows larger each year.
– Of course the costs are high, but thats just a technicality.
I am informed by a very superior progressive on twitter that those were all rich people who simply didn’t want to wait their turns.
Assuming our civilization doesn’t collapse, my current dream business plan involves ferrying the wealthy to boutique health care centers in the Caribbean on a luxury cruising catamaran. They get quality health care and a first-rate tropical sailing cruise in one convenient package. I get to spend my days sailing the next-best thing to the Federation starship Reliant. Plus, I figure I can make a tidy bundle bringing quality tobacco and rum back to the mainland.
I read that short story in the collection “All the Myriad Ways.”
OT, but not really.
Hobbity unseriousness from Andrew Napolitano:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/12/the-roberts-ruling-on-obamacare-signals
You need a gunners mate?
My dream job will be to hoist the Jolly Roger and liberate the wallets of returning health vacationers.
Hey, if the government can do it, why can’t I?
And Squid, perhaps we can have a referral business.
That was good stuff from Napolitano, Dale. Thanks.
BigBangHunter says July 12, 2012 at 11:53 am
– Theres another pressure on the bogus Canadian system they failed to mention. I recall some years ago hearing about the “nursing crisus” due to so many graduates migrating south for better paying jobs. Could be thats improved but with government control I doubt it.
That’s absolutely true.
I had a Canadian lady friend a few years ago who used to explain that regularly. Her younger sister’s also a nurse. Guess where sis relocated since completing her residency terms.
I see sis more often than I see lady nowadays.
Equality of outcomes, enforced edition. A LeftLibProgg’s wet dream, coming to America, in spite of that raggedy-assed old out-of-date Constitution. Get you some queue and SHUT UP!
Waiting your turn is always a good idea when it comes to life-threatening emergencies.
I mean if you don’t, how can the state do the appropriate financial triage and decide how much the life you’re saving is really worth?
We need to apply this to all potential cases of life-saving. Why should a healthy fireman in his thirties risk his long years of remaining life to rescue a ninety-year-old grandmother from an inferno? Grandma’s had her time! Don’t dive back into that burning building to save her; a death by fire is at least marginally better than living out her days in a terrible nursing home where her grandchildren never visit her.
I propose we institute government assessments that put your “estimated remaining quality life years” somewhere in a permanent file. Heck, it should be one that anyone can access via smartphone, so if they’re deciding whether or not to dive into that flooded river after you, they’ll know that they’ll only be saving you for another (estimated) ten years before your liver fails, at which point you’ll be costing the state too much and taking a spot from some poor little child on the organ donor waiting list.
Once we’ve got this straightened out, I know we’ll have a more compassionate, caring society dedicated to everyone getting exactly as many (estimated) years of life as they deserve.
No worries Pellegri, I’m sure the IRS will be benevolent.
All the NICU cases in Ontario end up in Buffalo.
For example: http://www.cp24.com/parents-separated-from-baby-after-transfer-to-us-hospital-because-they-lack-passports-1.411429
It’s important to remember that ObamaCare only promises universal coverage. It doesn’t address availability of providers or services, except, well, to reduce the availability of both. The difference between “free” health insurance and free health care will soon become as apparent in the U.S. as it is in Canada.