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Re: Talking Green (ie. the party)
« Reply #45 on: October 16, 2020, 12:12:29 pm »
how many of these 'exceptions to the rule' are legitimate cases of the unavailability of 'best treatment'. Queue triage management should ensure acute needs patients are at the top end of the queue... or skip the queue all together. Are you able to provide stats as to how many Canadians seek life-saving treatments outside of Canada (cancer or otherwise)?

more pointedly, can you point to countries that have 2-tier systems where the 'bottom tier' hasn't been compromised by the development/expansion of the 'top tier'?

There are numbers available on the web for both Canadians and Americans travelling out of country for health care. I based my '2 1/2 times' more for Americans on those figures. I believe it's something like 1.2 M Americans and the equal would be roughly .12 Canadians. The stats say something like 40,000 Canadians travel.

Wilbur can't say just what he would refuse to the bottom tier in healthcare and so can't be taken seriously until he does come up with some satisfactory explanations.

It's correct to say that the rankings for Canada's healthcare are all over the board but it's also correct to say that we're always rated better than the US system.

I have a suspicioin that the next Conservative government will have another run at introducing some sort of private 'for profit' system into our healthcare system. The profits to be had are just too big for the Cons to ignore.
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