Canada Healthcare Crisis

[BillyCarpenter]

Despite the lies and denials by a certain (see serial liar) Canadian, the crisis continues:

Canada: Premiers demand to meet Trudeau over health crisis




The leaders of Canada's provinces have urged PM Justin Trudeau to meet them over the nation's healthcare crisis.


Canada's hospitals have faced significant strain, with reports of patients dying while waiting for care.


Mr Trudeau has previously said he is willing to provide more funding, but with strings attached.


Medical treatment in Canada is publicly funded, with private non-profits owning hospitals and employing doctors, but government picking up the tab.




While the county's universal healthcare system uses a mix of federal and provincial money, it is administered provincially.


In a joint press conference on Friday, all 13 of Canada's premiers publicly asked Mr Trudeau to meet them early in the new year.


They renewed their request to raise the federal share of healthcare spending in Canada from 22% to 35%, accusing the Trudeau government of not paying its fair share.


"The number one issue in this entire country from coast to coast to coast is healthcare, and we can't do it alone," said Ontario's premier Doug Ford.


Hospitals across Canada have faced significant pressure this year due to staffing shortages and a rise in the number of sick people requiring care. In smaller communities, the shortages have forced some emergency departments to temporarily close their doors to patients.


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A surge in viral infections among children has put a strain on paediatric hospitals in recent months.


In the province of New Brunswick, protests sprang up after a man in his 70s died in an emergency department's waiting room on Wednesday.


In a September poll, 51% of Canadians said they don't feel confident they would receive timely care in a medical emergency.


Provincial health ministers met their federal counterpart as recently as November in Vancouver to pin down a deal on healthcare funding, but those talks collapsed.


Premiers have since accused Mr Trudeau of ignoring the issue and communicating with them via the media.


Mr Trudeau has previously said he expects the provinces to deliver better healthcare.


"It's not just about money," the prime minister said last month. "It's about creating a stronger, more robust healthcare system across the country."


Canada spends over 10% of its GDP on healthcare, about the same as the UK, compared with more than 16% for the US, according to World Bank data.

copier addict dare not defy Trudeau.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Welcome to hell.

EXCLUSIVE: 'I don't want to die, but I don't want to be homeless': Canadian man, 65, has a doctor's approval for euthanasia despite admitting becoming POOR is a main reason he's applying to die






A Canadian pensioner seeking euthanasia because he fears homelessness has received approval from a doctor despite admitting poverty is a major factor in the decision to end his own life.


Les Landry, 65, told assessors for the procedure he 'doesn't want to die' but has applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID) because he can't afford to live comfortably.


Astonishingly, a doctor has given one of the two signatures required for Landry to end his own life, despite knowing that financial hardship - not illness - is a leading reason for the profound decision.

A doctor approved Les Landry's application for medical assistance in dying, despite him saying poverty is a major factor in the decision to end his own life
Landry, 65, awaits verdict of second doctor who visited his home on Wednesday
Landry says if the second approval isn't given, he will 'shop' for another doctor willing to sign it off - something that's legal under Canada's euthanasia laws
He said benefit cuts mean 'sooner or later I just won't be able to afford to live'
Shocking case lays bare the relaxed approach to euthanasia in Canada, where experts say 'choosing to die is more accessible' than support for disabled people

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Let this be a warning to all Americans wanting single payer healthcare. Medical care will be rationed. Big time.




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The shocking case lays bare the increasingly relaxed approach to euthanasia in Canada, where experts say 'choosing to die is more accessible than support for people with disabilities'.

Dr Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, said Canada has reached a point where people are choosing to die 'not because they want they want to, but because they don't have adequate access' to proper health and social services.


More than 10,000 Canadians were euthanized last year, a tenfold increase on 2016 when the practise was legalized. In March, the law will change to allow mental health patients with no physical ailments to seek MAID.


Canada's law allows a person with a 'grievous and irremediable medical condition' to seek euthanasia, even if their illness isn't terminal.

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Let this be a warning to all Americans wanting single payer healthcare. Medical care will be rationed. Big time.




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It is already in the ACA.

[Copier Addict]

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From first visit with orthopedic surgeon to full hip replacement in just over two months.
I'm still in a bit of pain, but recovering nicely.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Democrats love to point to other countries that have socialized medicine as an example of what they want for America. I'm guessing they won't be pointing to Canada anytime soon.

Historic wait times.

Doctor shortage

Nurse shortage.

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2022 is a new study that finds Canada's health-care wait times reached 27.4 weeks in 2022—the longest ever recorded—and 195 per cent higher than the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when the Fraser Institute began tracking medical wait times.

Health Care Wait Times | Fraser Institute.

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Canadians have never waited this long for medical treatment, study finds



Physicians in the survey also reported to the institute that patients were waiting an average of six weeks longer than was clinically acceptable.


The survey broke down the wait times based on medical specialities as well, with the shortest wait there for radiation treatments to treat cancer, which took on average 3.9 weeks. The longest wait time was for neurosurgery, which took 58.9 weeks, but there were also long waits for plastic surgery, which took 58.1 weeks and orthopedic surgery where patients waited on average 48.4 weeks.


The survey found that wait times to be treated were longest in Prince Edward Island at 64.7 weeks, and shortest in Ontario where they came in at 20.3 weeks. The survey was sent to physicians in the first part of the year. Since then hospitals across the country have come under increasing pressure due to outbreaks of influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus.

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Democrats love to point to other countries that have socialized medicine as an example of what they want for America. I'm guessing they won't be pointing to Canada anytime soon.

Historic wait times.

Doctor shortage

Nurse shortage.

Just like Missisppi last in everything

[BillyCarpenter]

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Canadian leaders are begging Trudeau for more money to fund their collapsing healthcare system. In a cost cutting move designed to prop up the system, Trudeau expands assisted suicide to include mentallly ill patients.

Canada prepares to expand assisted death amid debate

TORONTO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Canada is preparing to expand its medically assisted death framework to become one of the broadest in the world, a change some want to delay due to concerns vulnerable people have easier access to death than to a life without suffering.
Starting in March, people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness will be able to access assisted death. Mental illness was excluded when the most recent medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law was passed in 2021.


That will make Canada one of six countries in the world where a person suffering from mental illness alone who is not near their natural death can get a doctor to help them die.


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-prepares-expand-assisted-death-amid-debate-2022-12-11/

This makes Canada a terrible country to live in. Really despicable.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Maybe some Canadians are hopped up on pain killers and fail to realize the gravity of Canada's healthcare crisis.




New report out today:

Canada’s health care facing ‘national crisis’ that can’t be solved by provinces: Singh


Canadian health care is facing a “national crisis” that requires federal action to solve, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says.




“The Red Cross being called into children’s hospitals in Ottawa, trailers being set up because of the overflow in children’s hospitals in Alberta, children dying because of the flu in B.C. It is clear that this is a national crisis and it cannot be solved at the provincial level,” Singh said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson.


“One of the major concerns is human health-care resource shortage — the worker shortage, health-care worker shortage — that can’t be solved by provinces who are trying to recruit from one province, creating a shortage in the province they recruit from. That’s not a solution.”


He said the NDP isn’t ruling out pulling its support from the governance deal that’s keeping the Liberal Party in power. But for now, his party is going to focus on trying to “force this government to act” as doctors warn that children’s hospitals are under severe strain.


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“There may come a time when it becomes clear to us that the Liberal government is just not willing to do what’s needed to help people — and we reserve the right to withhold our support,” Singh said.


Stephenson had asked whether the NDP would withhold support if the federal government doesn’t provide more health funding to the provinces, which are urging more cash amid growing strains.


READ MORE: Premiers demand ‘urgent’ meeting with Trudeau on health funding


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the supply and confidence agreement with the NDP on March 22, telling reporters it would be in place until 2025 — though either party can back out at any time.


Under the deal, the NDP has agreed to support the Liberals in confidence votes for that period of time in exchange for progress on specific files.


Singh told Stephenson he understands the “ramifications” of withholding his support — a decision that would cause the government to fall and likely trigger another federal election.


“But right now, our focus is on fighting and not giving up on people,” he said.


Speaking Friday, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged that Canadians are feeling “frustrated and frightened” by the situation in hospitals.


Canadian health care is facing a “national crisis” that requires federal action to solve, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says.
“The Red Cross being called into children’s hospitals in Ottawa, trailers being set up because of the overflow in children’s hospitals in Alberta, children dying because of the flu in B.C. It is clear that this is a national crisis and it cannot be solved at the provincial level,” Singh said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson.
“One of the major concerns is human health-care resource shortage — the worker shortage, health-care worker shortage — that can’t be solved by provinces who are trying to recruit from one province, creating a shortage in the province they recruit from. That’s not a solution.”
He said the NDP isn’t ruling out pulling its support from the governance deal that’s keeping the Liberal Party in power. But for now, his party is going to focus on trying to “force this government to act” as doctors warn that children’s hospitals are under severe strain.

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“There may come a time when it becomes clear to us that the Liberal government is just not willing to do what’s needed to help people — and we reserve the right to withhold our support,” Singh said.
Stephenson had asked whether the NDP would withhold support if the federal government doesn’t provide more health funding to the provinces, which are urging more cash amid growing strains.
READ MORE: Premiers demand ‘urgent’ meeting with Trudeau on health funding

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the supply and confidence agreement with the NDP on March 22, telling reporters it would be in place until 2025 — though either party can back out at any time.
Under the deal, the NDP has agreed to support the Liberals in confidence votes for that period of time in exchange for progress on specific files.
Singh told Stephenson he understands the “ramifications” of withholding his support — a decision that would cause the government to fall and likely trigger another federal election.
“But right now, our focus is on fighting and not giving up on people,” he said.
Speaking Friday, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged that Canadians are feeling “frustrated and frightened” by the situation in hospitals.
Speaking in a joint press conference on Friday, the premiers called for an “urgent” meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to “hammer out a deal” on health-care funding before the spring federal budget.
But Freeland said Friday that federal and provincial governments need to find solutions, rather than focus on dollars.


“We understand that Canadians are really worried and frustrated and frightened, actually, in many parts of the country about the state of the health-care system, and we know that we need to work together to make it better,” Freeland told reporters during an event in Toronto Friday.


“Yes, that does mean some more investment, but it also means a focus on being sure we get the results that Canadians quite rightly expect of us from those investments alone.”


NDP has 'a problem' supporting gun bill changes: Singh
The NDP also does not support the Liberals’ proposed amendment to Bill C-21, the planned gun reform law, Singh said in his interview with Stephenson.


The Liberal amendment has been facing questions about how far it will expand the scope of weapons that are prohibited in Canada. The move prompted blowback from numerous hunters, including Montreal Canadiens star Carey Price, who called the proposed legislation “unjust.”

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I'd hate to know that I'd just had surgery in a Canadian hospital. Kids are dying. Can you imagine having surgery there? Probably be a good idea to go to the USA and make sure everything is on the up and up.

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Canadian man approved for euthanasia despite citing POVERTY as key reason for his decision | Daily Mail Online

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How long will copier addict continue to lie about Canada's healthcare crisis?

Canadian woman dies in emergency room after seven-hour wait; husband says she was 'neglected'


A Canadian woman died after waiting seven hours in the emergency room, with her family blaming complications and shortcomings in the country's health care system for the death.


"I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of the patient who died at Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre," Canadian Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson wrote in a statement released Monday. "This is a tragic loss, and my heart goes out to them. I understand they want answers.


"Nova Scotia Health has begun an investigation, known as a quality review, into this case to determine what happened, how we can do better, and what we can do to prevent it from happening in the future."

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Doesn't Canada have basically the same National Healthcare System as the UK. They are after all still under the British Crown.

Some NHS patients waiting 1,000 days for routine surgery, damning figures show - Mirror Online

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More than 26 000 Americans die each year because of lack of health insurance - PMC