Well had to clear off a few cobwebs but otherwise the blog seems to be standing.
I can’t believe this weather first it rains then it pours then it thunderstorms then it rains again. The sun came out and it was still raining. Must be monsoon season.
Shona Holmes is making the rounds lying for the GOP. A commentator after this article backs her up. One never knows if it is just your garden variety moron or a plant but re his assertion “In Canada, I was put on a year-long waiting list to see a knee specialist.” Either he really doesn’t need it badly or has the same relation to the truth Holmes has. My husband got a referral from the local clinic and was in seeing the surgeon within two weeks. When he has the arrangements made and is ready to go for surgery it will be 3 months from decision to procedure.
I’ve seen 3 specialists within the last year and quite the opposite from being denied procedures I have put a couple off while I consider if I want to undergo them.
When we took my son to emerg with a scare he saw a ped within an hour and the emerg was packed that day.
Our system may not be perfect but one only has to look to dentistry to see how private health care would work.
To support our health care system visit the Canadian Health Care Coalition
* sorry for the rambling post.
In 2002 I knew something was wrong with me, so one Wednesday (about 3:00AM) I walked out and flagged down a police car …. and asked them to take me to a hospital. They could not, but called an ambulance. A doctor looked at me … then a specialist looked at me, then they shipped off to another hospital for a major operation on my heart.
Sometime later I received a $30 bill for the ambulance ride. The open heart surgery would have cost several hundred thousand dollars in the US (would have cost??? I would be all sorts of dead now) – I was in the hospital for about a month with no direct charge to me. I think of this about tax time every year – and think of this every time some fool wants to mindlessly cut taxes, cutting without a specific purpose in mind.