Preston Manning warned in the 1990's that public health care would become unsustainable unless the Canada Health Act was reformed. The former PC party, the Liberals, and the NDP dismissed his warnings as trying to bring US style health care delivery to Canada. Now his warnings are reality and we still bury our heads in the sand and pretend Canadian health care is not on life support.
Tsunami of critical reports show Canadian health care is on life support
If every government in Canada — federal and provincial — is treating health care as a priority, then why is the system irretrievably broken, year after year?
Most of all, why does nothing ever get better, despite decades of studies documenting the same problems over and over again?
This week alone, four studies documented major problems with Canada's health-care system, all of which were made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, but all of which have been issues for decades.
A Fraser Institute study released Thursday reports that median wait times for medical treatment across 12 specialties in 10 provinces this year are the highest they've ever been in the three decades during which comparable records have been kept — 27.7 weeks from a referral by a general practitioner to treatment by a specialist.
That's up from 27.4 weeks last year and 198% longer than in 1993 when it was 9.3 weeks.
A report by SecondStreet.org released Wednesday found that, based on partial data from the provinces, at least 17,032 patients died in Canada while waiting for surgery or diagnostic tests between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023 and that the total number could be as high as 31,397, a 64% increase over the past five years.
A report by the Ontario Auditor General on four aspects of the province's health care system also released Wednesday found:
* 200 unplanned emergency department closures in provincial hospitals between June 2022 and June 2023 because of a shortage of doctors and nurses in 23 hospitals, mainly in rural, remote and northern Ontario locations.
* wait times for treatment in emergency rooms are increasing, along with hallway medicine.
* staff in long-term care homes lack critical training, plus there aren't enough of them to ensure patient safety and quality care.
* Public Health Ontario is struggling with inefficiency in its labs and poor coordination of public health research in areas such as latent tuberculosis and wastewater testing for COVID-19.
A study released by the Ontario Health Coalition Tuesday reported 1,199 temporary or permanent closures of hospital services this year up to Nov. 24, resulting in the loss of 31,055 hours of patient care, the equivalent of 3.44 years.
A report by the Ontario College of Family Physicians last month said that last year, 2.3 million Ontarians didn't have a family doctor, which will increase to 4.4 million by 2026, a major reason hospital emergency rooms are overwhelmed by patients who could be treated by a family doctor if they had one.
A report released by the Fraser Institute last month comparing Canada's health-care system to those of 29 other developed countries with universal health-care systems, who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, (excluding the U.S. which doesn't have universal health care) found that in 2021:
Canada ranked 28th out of 30 countries for the number of doctors (2.8 per 1,000 people); 23rd out of 29 for the number of beds dedicated to physical care (2.3 per 1,000); 25th out of 29 for MRIs (10.3 per million people) and 26th out of 30 for CT scanners (14.9 per million).
Among 10 comparable universal health care systems that measure medical wait times, Canada's were the longest, with the lowest percentage of patients waiting four weeks or less to see a specialist (38%) and the lowest percentage waiting four months or less for elective surgery (62%).
While more money (which federal and provincial government claim they don't have) may be needed in some areas of health care, money alone isn't going to fix the problems.
Adjusted for age — the percentage of the population over 65 — Canada ranks highest for expenditures on health care as a percentage of GDP among 30 OECD nations, and ninth-highest per capita.
The public cost of Canadian health care last year was $331 billion or $8,563 per Canadian, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, with health care consuming about 40% of provincial budgets and accounting for 12.2% of Canada's GDP.
Given all this, it's painfully obvious that Canada's health care system, based on the myth of "free" health care, is broken and that we need to start seriously studying what other developed countries with universal health care are doing right that we're doing wrong.
Or nothing will ever change.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-tsunami-of-critical-reports-show-canadian-health-care-is-on-life-support
I have to laugh, the official opposition here in Alberta is claiming the sky is falling on the province's health care. It's the whole fucking country and it was no better when the dippers were in office.
Singapore's health care puts Canada's to shame. Singaporeans live longer too.
Socialism always fails in the end
Quote from: Biggie Smiles on December 11, 2023, 11:39:51 AMSocialism always fails in the end
They will double on stupid here until the rising cost of public health care bankrupts every province.
Quote from: Shen Li on December 11, 2023, 11:32:24 AMI have to laugh, the official opposition here in Alberta is claiming the sky is falling on the province's health care. It's the whole fucking country and it was no better when the dippers were in office.
Singapore's health care puts Canada's to shame. Singaporeans live longer too.
It's no wonder. Too many participants. Health care here is pretty good. Vaccines, most drugs are free. Drs visits free. Part of one's residency
Anyone here knows about Calpine and how it relates to Canada? They have a tidy operation going in Sonoma and Lake counties in Ca.
My understanding is there is no actual Canadian healthcare system but instead each province has its own.
Quote from: Seamajor1 on December 11, 2023, 12:21:37 PMAnyone here knows about Calpine and how it relates to Canada? They have a tidy operation going in Sonoma and Lake counties in Ca.
Google says Calpine is a Texas based energy generator with power plants mostly based upon natural gas fired and a few geothermal powered. I am not sure what they have to do with healthcare in Canada.
Seabs isn't all there, if you know what I mean...
Google Calpine and Canada pension plan investment board.
Google chemical castration and old folks homes.
https://www.cppinvestments.com/newsroom/cppib-calpine-18-08-2017/
Cucknadians have been coming to the USA for decades to pay out of pocket for diagnostics and operations because Cucknadia's health care is fucked. Now America's health care is fucked just as bad because of President Nigger and Juan McStain. At least McStain is dead and rotting in hell where he belongs!
Quote from: Lokmar on December 11, 2023, 01:57:02 PMCucknadians have been coming to the USA for decades to pay out of pocket for diagnostics and operations because Cucknadia's health care is fucked. Now America's health care is fucked just as bad because of President Nigger and Juan McStain. At least McStain is dead and rotting in hell where he belongs!
health care system is pretty good where I live...Lokmar!
Plus it's free!
However, I agree that there are wide disparities in the level of healthcare from region to region. Like the States, the poor ones lack or don't get a family doctor. Lower quality care, etc etc.
I think Dove posted a YT video about Nova Scotia, one of the poorer regions/provinces in Canada where the people there dont have very good quality healthcare. But if a person is in a more prosperous region, they get better healthcare.
One thing that weighs the system down are too many fucking freeloaders. ie - bums who come off the street and use it as their own personl daycare centre. I def think that free loaders or repeat/heavy users of the system who use it unecessarily should pay for extra visits. I think in the US, they do this right? and your system is largely fee payer and private. I believe even Obamacare places limits on the amount of times a patient can access they healthcare system. one major step/improvement is the system needs to be rationed in order to save it. the bums who abuse it need to be told that the state is not their babysitter.
You know what I would do for the street bums who come in every night flooding our hospitals, is bar them from entering, and instead put them in makeshift trailers where they could get visited by a paramedic. But not a doctor. It's hard to believe that we put our best physicians caring for a bunch of undeserving bums like that. Physicians in emergency rooms should only be deployed for those truly in need.
Our hosptials ought not be drunk tanks or overnight detox centers
Fuck those people.
Socialized medicine can only work if people stay healthy and don't overburden the system. The system doesn't work if too many people freeload or abuse it.
I think people who abuse the system, should be relegated to 2nd or 3rd tier. That way the people who really need it get the help first.
Quote from: Oerdin on December 11, 2023, 12:53:49 PMMy understanding is there is no actual Canadian healthcare system but instead each province has its own.
We have the Canada Health Act which sets guidelines for how health care is delivered in Canada..
Ottawa gives back some of the taxes it takes from provinces to pay for it, but the provinces pay for most of it out of their own budgets..
My province is the fastest growing through both internal migration and immigration..
In recent years our provincial government has drastically increased our health care budget, but there never seems to be enough emergency beds and wait times for necessary procedures are still too long..
Taiwan spends less than we do and has better results.......I don't know what Canada is doing wrong.
Health care is neither good nor free in JOE's province.
B.C. has the longest wait times for walk-in clinics compared to other provinces, new data finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-walk-in-clinic-wait-times-1.6428497#:~:text=Residents%20of%20British%20Columbia%20wait%20an%20average%20of,than%20double%20the%20national%20average%20of%2025%20minutes.
B.C. will spend $8,800 per person on health care in 2022: Report
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-health-care-spending-8800-per-person-2022-cihi-data
Quote from: formosan on December 11, 2023, 03:27:00 PMWe have the Canada Health Act which sets guidelines for how health care is delivered in Canada..
Ottawa gives back some of the taxes it takes from provinces to pay for it, but the provinces pay for most of it out of their own budgets..
My province is the fastest growing through both internal migration and immigration..
In recent years our provincial government has drastically increased our health care budget, but there never seems to be enough emergency beds and wait times for necessary procedures are still too long..
Taiwan spends less than we do and has better results.......I don't know what Canada is doing wrong.
I went to a healthcare drop in clinic once and all one worker did was sweep the floor all afternoon. I waited 3 hours to see someone, which was absolutely useless in the end as I could've seen the neighborhood pharmicist for 5 min to get an answer. and I just saw one person acting as a glorified janitor. I watched for all that time, and all she did was sweep the floor with a broom. She's probably getting $30 to $40 an hour to sweep the floor. and she didn't do anything else. So her wage is likely costing the taxpayer $100 per hour plus benefits, etc whatever she receives.
yes, that is an example of waste that needs to be addressed.
Quote from: Frood on December 11, 2023, 01:36:21 PMGoogle chemical castration and old folks homes.
Old people suck.
There was like 15,000 of them at the walmart this morning when I went to pick up dog food for my three lovely animals
it was awful
Quote from: Biggie Smiles on December 11, 2023, 03:52:56 PMOld people suck.
There was like 15,000 of them at the walmart this morning when I went to pick up dog food for my three lovely animals
it was awful
You must have a lot livin in Flordia, Bigly.
Isn't that where all the old people in America flock to when they retire?
Quote from: JOE on December 11, 2023, 03:53:57 PMYou must have a lot livin in Flordia, Bigly.
Isn't that where all the old people in America flock to when they retire?
yeah there are a lot of old people here
I thought COVID would have done a better job than it did
but like AIDS it turned out to be a huge disappointment
they're still here :thumbdown:
Quote from: Biggie Smiles on December 11, 2023, 03:56:00 PMyeah there are a lot of old people here
I thought COVID would have done a better job than it did
but like AIDS it turned out to be a huge disappointment
they're still here :thumbdown:
AIDS killed a lot more people that COIVD I think
And at least in the States and Canada they were mostly gay.
Quote from: JOE on December 11, 2023, 03:57:38 PMAIDS killed a lot more people that COIVD I think
And at least in the States and Canada they were mostly gay.
Yeah, I had high hopes for AIDS -- but all good things must come to an end it seems
Quote from: Biggie Smiles on December 11, 2023, 03:52:56 PMOld people suck.
There was like 15,000 of them at the walmart this morning when I went to pick up dog food for my three lovely animals
it was awful
Did you grab enough dog food before the oldies took it all?
Those animals will eat anything...
Quote from: Frood on December 11, 2023, 04:09:34 PMDid you grab enough dog food before the oldies took it all?
Those animals will eat anything...
yeah
they seem to like the gravy train the most though. They just add warm water and the shit is like beefy jerky to them with they false teef and what not.
ugh... and don't get me started on the fight I got into with this moose looking bitch that looked alot like Murdumb. Fucking bitch looked like Mr Crabs off of Spongebob
Quote from: Biggie Smiles on December 11, 2023, 04:11:25 PMyeah
they seem to like the gravy train the most though. They just add warm water and the shit is like beefy jerky to them with they false teef and what not.
ugh... and don't get me started on the fight I got into with this moose looking bitch that looked alot like Murdumb. Fucking bitch looked like Mr Crabs off of Spongebob
You ever seen two oldie pensioners fighting over three mushy zucchini in a discount bag at the supermarket?
Must be like going down on Murdy...
Quote from: Frood on December 11, 2023, 04:16:08 PMYou ever seen two oldie pensioners fighting over three mushy zucchini in a discount bag at the supermarket?
Must be like going down on Murdy...
I would rather stuff my face into a blender and switch it on than go down on Murdy
I'm going to go throw up now
we were in florida last week.... found a place called "joe patti".... bought a couple of cans of snails and some spices i needed....
Quote from: Biggie Smiles on December 11, 2023, 04:17:33 PMI would rather stuff my face into a blender and switch it on than go down on Murdy
I'm going to go throw up now
So a "NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM" comment is completely out of order right now? :pardon:
Quote from: JOE on December 11, 2023, 03:23:12 PMhealth care system is pretty good where I live...Lokmar!
Plus it's free!
However, I agree that there are wide disparities in the level of healthcare from region to region. Like the States, the poor ones lack or don't get a family doctor. Lower quality care, etc etc.
I think Dove posted a YT video about Nova Scotia, one of the poorer regions/provinces in Canada where the people there dont have very good quality healthcare. But if a person is in a more prosperous region, they get better healthcare.
One thing that weighs the system down are too many fucking freeloaders. ie - bums who come off the street and use it as their own personl daycare centre. I def think that free loaders or repeat/heavy users of the system who use it unecessarily should pay for extra visits. I think in the US, they do this right? and your system is largely fee payer and private. I believe even Obamacare places limits on the amount of times a patient can access they healthcare system. one major step/improvement is the system needs to be rationed in order to save it. the bums who abuse it need to be told that the state is not their babysitter.
You know what I would do for the street bums who come in every night flooding our hospitals, is bar them from entering, and instead put them in makeshift trailers where they could get visited by a paramedic. But not a doctor. It's hard to believe that we put our best physicians caring for a bunch of undeserving bums like that. Physicians in emergency rooms should only be deployed for those truly in need.
Our hosptials ought not be drunk tanks or overnight detox centers
Fuck those people.
Socialized medicine can only work if people stay healthy and don't overburden the system. The system doesn't work if too many people freeload or abuse it.
I think people who abuse the system, should be relegated to 2nd or 3rd tier. That way the people who really need it get the help first.
No, its shit. You cant lie to me, josephine. See, I worked for a big RV Dealership that had on-site camping and we hosted your fellow citizens every year. They all had the same thing to say about your shitty health care...ITS SHIT!, and the wait times are abysmal. The wait for simple things like an MRI is criminal in Canduhduh. People with cancer have to wait 6 months or more for procedures! One retired couple in particular, always came several times per year. I suspect that one of them were getting treatment for something...I didnt pry. I got along with them well and the woman would fix us the best cinnamon buns I've ever had. Anyway, they warned us that if we ever did the shit Canduhduh did, we'd be screwed. Viola! Along came O'Nigger Care!
Quote from: formosan on December 11, 2023, 03:30:10 PMHealth care is neither good nor free in JOE's province.
B.C. has the longest wait times for walk-in clinics compared to other provinces, new data finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-walk-in-clinic-wait-times-1.6428497#:~:text=Residents%20of%20British%20Columbia%20wait%20an%20average%20of,than%20double%20the%20national%20average%20of%2025%20minutes.
B.C. will spend $8,800 per person on health care in 2022: Report
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-health-care-spending-8800-per-person-2022-cihi-data
I knew josephine was lying all along. He always lies. Thats another reason why I always kick him in the nuts. I fucking HATE liars!
Quote from: Biggie Smiles on December 11, 2023, 03:52:56 PMOld people suck.
There was like 15,000 of them at the walmart this morning when I went to pick up dog food for my three lovely animals
it was awful
Damn, dude. Stay the fuck outta Walmart! While I'll admit that the one by my son's place in Clermont isnt too bad, it's still a shithole! I'll gladly pay more just so I dont punish myself with the frustration.
Quote from: DKG on December 11, 2023, 08:45:57 AMPreston Manning warned in the 1990's that public health care would become unsustainable unless the Canada Health Act was reformed. The former PC party, the Liberals, and the NDP dismissed his warnings as trying to bring US style health care delivery to Canada. Now his warnings are reality and we still bury our heads in the sand and pretend Canadian health care is not on life support.
Tsunami of critical reports show Canadian health care is on life support
If every government in Canada — federal and provincial — is treating health care as a priority, then why is the system irretrievably broken, year after year?
Most of all, why does nothing ever get better, despite decades of studies documenting the same problems over and over again?
This week alone, four studies documented major problems with Canada's health-care system, all of which were made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, but all of which have been issues for decades.
A Fraser Institute study released Thursday reports that median wait times for medical treatment across 12 specialties in 10 provinces this year are the highest they've ever been in the three decades during which comparable records have been kept — 27.7 weeks from a referral by a general practitioner to treatment by a specialist.
That's up from 27.4 weeks last year and 198% longer than in 1993 when it was 9.3 weeks.
A report by SecondStreet.org released Wednesday found that, based on partial data from the provinces, at least 17,032 patients died in Canada while waiting for surgery or diagnostic tests between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023 and that the total number could be as high as 31,397, a 64% increase over the past five years.
A report by the Ontario Auditor General on four aspects of the province's health care system also released Wednesday found:
* 200 unplanned emergency department closures in provincial hospitals between June 2022 and June 2023 because of a shortage of doctors and nurses in 23 hospitals, mainly in rural, remote and northern Ontario locations.
* wait times for treatment in emergency rooms are increasing, along with hallway medicine.
* staff in long-term care homes lack critical training, plus there aren't enough of them to ensure patient safety and quality care.
* Public Health Ontario is struggling with inefficiency in its labs and poor coordination of public health research in areas such as latent tuberculosis and wastewater testing for COVID-19.
A study released by the Ontario Health Coalition Tuesday reported 1,199 temporary or permanent closures of hospital services this year up to Nov. 24, resulting in the loss of 31,055 hours of patient care, the equivalent of 3.44 years.
A report by the Ontario College of Family Physicians last month said that last year, 2.3 million Ontarians didn't have a family doctor, which will increase to 4.4 million by 2026, a major reason hospital emergency rooms are overwhelmed by patients who could be treated by a family doctor if they had one.
A report released by the Fraser Institute last month comparing Canada's health-care system to those of 29 other developed countries with universal health-care systems, who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, (excluding the U.S. which doesn't have universal health care) found that in 2021:
Canada ranked 28th out of 30 countries for the number of doctors (2.8 per 1,000 people); 23rd out of 29 for the number of beds dedicated to physical care (2.3 per 1,000); 25th out of 29 for MRIs (10.3 per million people) and 26th out of 30 for CT scanners (14.9 per million).
Among 10 comparable universal health care systems that measure medical wait times, Canada's were the longest, with the lowest percentage of patients waiting four weeks or less to see a specialist (38%) and the lowest percentage waiting four months or less for elective surgery (62%).
While more money (which federal and provincial government claim they don't have) may be needed in some areas of health care, money alone isn't going to fix the problems.
Adjusted for age — the percentage of the population over 65 — Canada ranks highest for expenditures on health care as a percentage of GDP among 30 OECD nations, and ninth-highest per capita.
The public cost of Canadian health care last year was $331 billion or $8,563 per Canadian, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, with health care consuming about 40% of provincial budgets and accounting for 12.2% of Canada's GDP.
Given all this, it's painfully obvious that Canada's health care system, based on the myth of "free" health care, is broken and that we need to start seriously studying what other developed countries with universal health care are doing right that we're doing wrong.
Or nothing will ever change.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-tsunami-of-critical-reports-show-canadian-health-care-is-on-life-support
It is the same in every province. The opposition party claims health care is falling apart and they will fix it. Nothing changes and next election it is the other party cliaming they are the saviours of health care.
I don't know how we would save health care in Canada. I like how it is supposed to work in theory. I know I hate the US model. I want it to remain a single payer system.
Quote from: Oerdin on December 11, 2023, 12:55:49 PMGoogle says Calpine is a Texas based energy generator with power plants mostly based upon natural gas fired and a few geothermal powered. I am not sure what they have to do with healthcare in Canada.
It doesn't. Seamoron can't follow a thread. In the Leftist Lounge thread, he asked me if I smoke. What an idiot.
Quote from: Brent on December 11, 2023, 07:01:00 PMIt doesn't. Seamoron can't follow a thread. In the Leftist Lounge thread, he asked me if I smoke. What an idiot.
You seem the type sonny.
Quote from: Brent on December 11, 2023, 06:45:27 PMI want it to remain a single payer system.
That is what got us to the edge of the cliff we are at now.
Quote from: DKG on December 12, 2023, 12:08:10 PMThat is what got us to the edge of the cliff we are at now.
:ecomcity: :ecomcity: Trusting our health care to big companies. :crazy:
Quote from: formosan on December 11, 2023, 03:30:10 PMHealth care is neither good nor free in JOE's province.
B.C. has the longest wait times for walk-in clinics compared to other provinces, new data finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-walk-in-clinic-wait-times-1.6428497#:~:text=Residents%20of%20British%20Columbia%20wait%20an%20average%20of,than%20double%20the%20national%20average%20of%2025%20minutes.
B.C. will spend $8,800 per person on health care in 2022: Report
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-health-care-spending-8800-per-person-2022-cihi-data
I'm healthy so I don't notice, Fashionista.
Even when I need medical help, I try not to bother the doctors or nurses too much. Last time I went was when I had an infected thumb. They disinfected and that was it. Then I got outta there within a half hour. Pronto done. Now scram.
socialized medicine could work, but there's too many freeloaders.
They definitely need to ration the healthcare system here and elsewhere in Canada to limit its abuse by bums, drug addicts and hobos. Even where they have subsidized healthcare in the USA, they let those who get it know that it has its limits. I believe someone like a welfare recipient or disabilities person in the USA can't just keep seeing a doctor or ER continuously like they do in Canada. I would force rationing and the abusers by making them pay for unecessary visits. That's certainly one way to reduce the budgetary problems the health care system is facing in Canada.
Other than the elderly, the governments here should force repeat users to sign a waiver that there is a limit on how many demands they can make on the system.
I see bums come off the street and get free ER. They should throw those types in a trailer overnight and send them a paramedic, not a doctor. A lotta doctors got COVID because of bums like that. Maybe when they get robots up and running, that's all they get. Some automated dummy to attend to their drunken needs.
Our doctors are simply too precious to take care of the undeserving.
Health care in Canada is almost in free fall.
Economic prosperity and quality of life are determined by a number of factors. Two of the most important are health and education.
So it was troubling to see several reports about deteriorating health in Canada. The first was a sort of canary in the coal mine warning: life expectancy in Canada is dropping. A report published by Statistics Canada showed that life expectancy for Canadians declined for the third straight year in 2022. In countries with high living standards, life expectancy goes up, not down.
The second sign of trouble was a report published last week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that showed Canada was falling behind other OECD countries in several key health indicators. According to the report, Canada was at or near the bottom with regard to the total number of physicians per capita, and was dead last when it came to receiving timely treatment in emergency care or access to a specialist.
But that's what happens when the economy doesn't function properly — when we import more and export less, when we stop making products here in Canada, and when a growing portion of the wealth we do produce gets gobbled up by our bureaucracy and interest payments on our mushrooming debt. There's less and less money for social programs like health.
We're also slipping when it comes to education. An education assessment report from the OECD published last week shows that the math scores of Canadian high school students continue to fall year after year — part of a steady downward slide that began about 20 years ago.
That doesn't bode well for our country's future prosperity in a world that is becoming increasingly tech driven, a world where math skills are critical.
The countries that scored highest in math were predominantly Asian and European. With poor math skills and a lack of technically skilled workers, how are we going to compete against these countries in the years ahead? And if we can't compete, do we really think we'll maintain our once-high standard of living?
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-is-canadas-standard-of-living-starting-to-unravel
Quote from: JOE on December 12, 2023, 06:15:46 PMI see bums come off the street and get free ER. They should throw those types in a trailer overnight and send them a paramedic, not a doctor. A lotta doctors got COVID because of bums like that. Maybe when they get robots up and running, that's all they get. Some automated dummy to attend to their drunken needs.
Our doctors are simply too precious to take care of the undeserving.
Joe was one of those bums for years.
He only has some money now because his mother croaked.
Quote from: TheProwler on December 13, 2023, 03:07:27 AMJoe was one of those bums for years.
He only has some money now because his mother croaked.
No. I'm just currently a plain old renter, Prowler.
However, what I see going on in my city is alarming. Typical rents are $2500-3000 a month for new renters.
People in my city getting pushed out onto the streets because of greedy uncaring politicians and fucking developers. I know people like that - who were doing fine for years and now the high cost of rent is killng them. Homelessness and drug addiction is gettin worse. More and more people are living in Vans or their cars.
That's why I'd rather make plans now and get out while I can in order to avoid becoming a victim just like them. If it's becoming this bad now, I wager it'll be much worse in 10 even 5 years from now.
Our city is just run by a bunch of greedy pigs. And unfortunately Vancouver has become a reflection of it. They reward land hoarders when in reality they should be punishing them.
Incidentally - land hoarding is not a person or family merely owning a single home and a single vacation home. It's more like people or corporations ownig 10, 20 100 of these things, jacking up the prices or denying people affordable housing. And I think this practice should end in Canada. Especially Vancouver @The Prowler. Some countries area already doing this and have passed laws to combat land hoarding.
I have friends with families to support and they see their taxes/fees on their homes go up substantially. We should give those kind of people a break and hammer the land hoarders with taxes instead. Let them subsidize everybody else with their greed. Tax the land hoarder, not the single homeowner.
Quote from: TheProwler on December 13, 2023, 03:07:27 AMJoe was one of those bums for years.
He only has some money now because his mother croaked.
No, it's because his boyfriend Thiel has money. Joe mooches off of him.
Quote from: Brent on December 12, 2023, 03:04:21 PM:ecomcity: :ecomcity: Trusting our health care to big companies. :crazy:
Ya left out insurance companies that drive the prices up. You do understand how this works, right?
Quote from: Seamajor1 on December 13, 2023, 10:55:58 AMYa left out insurance companies that drive the prices up. You do understand how this works, right?
What? Insurance prices are a symptom of the disease, not a cause of it. Most countries have private health insurance and they do not pay the premiums Americans do. Most countries have a form of public health care, but it does not caost anywhere near as much as what Canadians pay and it delivers better results.
Insurance and re insurance drive costs up in the USA. Drs visit here, $40. In California $460. Root canal $6000. Here $300. I visited an emergency room for Flu in Sonoma county community hospital. $2300. I would call insurance companies the exact reason for high pricing.
Quote from: Seamajor1 on December 13, 2023, 11:11:45 AMInsurance and re insurance drive costs up in the USA. Drs visit here, $40. In California $460. Root canal $6000. Here $300. I visited an emergency room for Flu in Sonoma county community hospital. $2300. I would call insurance companies the exact reason for high pricing.
I know American health care costs are expensive. Canada too.
Quote from: JOE on December 13, 2023, 09:54:04 AMNo. I'm just currently a plain old renter, Prowler.
Oh, I never knew that.
Canada's health care is reactive instead of proactive like Taiwanese health care..
We wait until small issues become big expensive serious problems before anything is done..
That is not a very efficient or humane way to deliver health care.
Quote from: Brent on December 11, 2023, 06:45:27 PMI don't know how we would save health care in Canada. I like how it is supposed to work in theory. I know I hate the US model. I want it to remain a single payer system.
The system should be rationed so that over users and repeat offenders pay extra.
They should be forewarned of the limits and that the healthcare system is not their daycare centre or nanny state.
also, they make the hospitals too damn comfy now.
And they cater too much to the whims of freeloaders and bums.
Back in the day, they were ugly inside and not meant to look like a hotel. They were painted green, grey shit colors so nobody would wanna stay in them for too long.
They make these new hospitals look to pretty inside. Maybe that courtesy could be extended to old people who worked hard all their lives but nobody else. or sick Kids in a children's hosptial
Other than seniors or sick children, make the hospitals look like an army barrack for everybody else, especially the street bums.
I don't think those hoboes from the street should be allowed in a hospital. I'm sure in the States they frequently get turned away. "Sorry, no shoes, no shirt, no wash...no service. now gtfo."
Quote from: Lokmar on December 11, 2023, 06:15:11 PMNo, its shit. You cant lie to me, josephine. See, I worked for a big RV Dealership that had on-site camping and we hosted your fellow citizens every year. They all had the same thing to say about your shitty health care...ITS SHIT!, and the wait times are abysmal. The wait for simple things like an MRI is criminal in Canduhduh. People with cancer have to wait 6 months or more for procedures! One retired couple in particular, always came several times per year. I suspect that one of them were getting treatment for something...I didnt pry. I got along with them well and the woman would fix us the best cinnamon buns I've ever had. Anyway, they warned us that if we ever did the shit Canduhduh did, we'd be screwed. Viola! Along came O'Nigger Care!
...and yet, what is a stay at the hospital supposed to be like - a night at at 5 star Hilton?
Geez, I don't use the healthcare system here more than I absolutely have to. Even tho it's free and I could. Get in and then get the fuck out. Don't be a burden on the system and the taxpayer.
I would rather not spend any time or set foot in a hospital at all.
Quote from: formosan on December 13, 2023, 01:44:15 PMCanada's health care is reactive instead of proactive like Taiwanese health care..
We wait until small issues become big expensive serious problems before anything is done..
That is not a very efficient or humane way to deliver health care.
Wrong. Canada's health care woes are caused by the same thing that is causing homelessness and classroom overcrowding. We cannot take in one million immigrants, refugees and TFW's every year without these social ills.
Quote from: Seamajor1 on December 13, 2023, 11:11:45 AMInsurance and re insurance drive costs up in the USA. Drs visit here, $40. In California $460. Root canal $6000. Here $300. I visited an emergency room for Flu in Sonoma county community hospital. $2300. I would call insurance companies the exact reason for high pricing.
Last root canal I had was 1/3rd of that.
Insurance should be made illegal. Maybe allow catastrophic policies. Also, government negotiating prices for health care should be eliminated under penalty of death.
Problem solved.
Quote from: Lokmar on December 13, 2023, 07:44:16 PMInsurance should be made illegal. Maybe allow catastrophic policies. Also, government negotiating prices for health care should be eliminated under penalty of death.
Problem solved.
I like it. Drs insurance and re insurance does not exist here.
Quote from: Brent on December 13, 2023, 02:54:37 PMWrong. Canada's health care woes are caused by the same thing that is causing homelessness and classroom overcrowding. We cannot take in one million immigrants, refugees and TFW's every year without these social ills.
Regardless of what is causing our health care problems, Chief Medical Officers from several provinces including my own issued pleas to the public to stay away from emergency rooms over the Christmas holdays unless it's necessary.
I was reading Canada just had too provincial elections where the sorry state of health care was a top issue.
Nothing significant will change at the provincial level. The Canada Health Act itself has to change. It better happen soon too before public health care collapses from coast to coast.
Health was not a deciding factor for us to leave Canada. However, Canada's crumbling public health care was a consideration.
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Canada's healthcare system ranks last among peer countries in terms of wait times. Reform is critical: patients deserve timely care, not endless waits.
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Access to a waitlist is not access to health care. People are suffering and dying while waiting for care. That is proof of a failing system. Shifting to activity-based funding can incentivize productivity, increase efficiency, and help turn these trends around.
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