Reuters reports on health care in Canada:
Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system. ...
"There's got to be some change ...
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!]
The San Francisco Examiner reports:
Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition and drive rates down? The truth is the public ...
Polis calls for Senate to add public option to health care bill, reports the Daily Camera (Boulder). As Paul Hsieh, MD has noted:
In the Dec. 10 [2008] Wall Street Journal, Polis wrote: "Our United States Congress... now finds itself poring over 'business plans' submitted this week by Ford, GM and ...
From the Independent (UK):
Poor standards of care at an accident and emergency unit in one of the country's flagship hospitals may have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of over 400 patients, an official NHS investigation has concluded. Dirty equipment and an absence of leadership contributed to a death rate almost ...
From Unfinished business, Report Card on Wait Times in Canada, published by the Wait Time Alliance:
the median wait time for patients requiring an inpatient bed-that is, from the time the patient presented at the ED [emergency department] to the time they were admitted to an inpatient bed-was 19 hours (average ...
We all agree that medical care should cost less and be available to more people. The problem is that most of the health care reform proposals coming from Congress and the White House are reforms designed to give government more control over your medical care. Though the politicians say otherwise, ...
This video is an entry for the Galen's Institute's "Do No Harm" contest. All the entries are here. I haven't watched them all, but I've learned something. Each video is about 90 seconds. If it doesn't grab my attention in the first 10 seconds or so, I move on to ...
A scary video showing that the proponents of the "public" medical insurance plan see this as a means to establishing a monopoly on medical insurance. I'd like to see this video go "viral." If you would too, take a moment to help make it happen!
See background information on the video ...
Bottom line: The province of British Columbia claims that there is constitutional right to health care. Yet, it's illegal to pay a doctor for services for medical care that's covered by the government plan. But why would you do that? Maybe if you want the care now, instead of waiting ...
On April 14 the Denver Post published an excellent letter by Tish Jeffers of Centennial. Excellent work, Tish!
Re: “Look to Canada for single-payer success,” April 11 letter to the editor.
So, Timothy Snowden, who visits Canada often, has polled the entire population about their single-payer health system? He hit the nail ...
