Canada’s Healthcare: Don’t Get Sick there
The Canadian Fraser Institute has released a paper, How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2005 Report. The answer is NOT so good.
The report says Sweden, Japan, France and Australia all outperform Canada in the following areas: keeping women with breast cancer alive; preventing death from disease; waiting times for health services and the number of years people can expect to live without a disability.
“Canadians continue to not get value for their money,” says Nadeem Esmail, co-author of the report.
The entire report can be read here.
Is anyone surprised that the socialized Canadian healthcare system sucks?
Uhhhh NO!
5 Comments
Terry Jones
I'd be interested to see how American health care compares. I mean once you consider all the homeless and uninsured. Not that I'm advocating socialistic health care. It's common knowledge that Canadian health care is a nightmare. It's caused by people like one of my acquaintances on medicare who takes her kids to the emergency room over anything, because it's more convenient than a doctor's appointment, and she's not paying for it anyway. I'd just like to see some sort of full study that takes all sorts of details like these into account.
Flap
It is hard to make a strict comparison because of population alone. Canada is a much smaller country than the Unites States population wise. And don't be persuaded by all of the homeless and uninsured folks. Our Medicaid system takes care of all of those patients – and far better than the average patient in Canada,who is forced into Medicare without any alternatives (currently) except to leave.
But, I will provide a couple of links from my sister mirror blog http://flapsblog.blogspot.com that relates to yourt question:
http://flapsblog.blogspot.com/2005_03_05_flapsblo…
http://flapsblog.blogspot.com/2005/03/why-usa-hea…
The web blog Socialized Medicine which has some of the source articles is also a good resource.
letsconnect
What about Michigan? Spotted on dentistry.com:
“I live in Michigan where medicaid does not cover any dentistry. I have been on the donated dentitists list for 2 years and have heard nothing. I am in the final stages of gum disease and need all my teeth out. I am in pain everyday. I have infection all through my mouth. I can not afford dental schools. Is there any other place I could try? I have found no free clinics here.”
Flap
Letsconnect,
I posted before about contacting Michigan’s state dental association about resources for the indigent and poor.
The state’s medicaid program pays for emergency care and perhaps more. Federally qualified health care centers which are private provide care on a sliding fee schedule based on an ability to pay.
Also, some of the blegs that are present on the internet are sometimes lacking credibility.
So, if you have contact with the patient I would start with the Michigan state component of the American Dental Association.
Flap
Flap
LetsConnect,
My previous post on another thread – in case you missed it.
Letsconnect,
I suggest you go to the Michigan Dental Society and refer this patient to them.
The are located here: http://www.michigandental.org/.
I telephoned them and Michigan has an extensive medicaid system for poor children as well as rural health clinics, county facilities and community college dental hygiene facilities. The dental schools have very reduced fees on a sliding scale.
Adult state welfare cases are limited to emergencies but no one is turned away.
Since this is a limited snippet of an internet bulletin board bleg it is difficult to find out the true facts but the Michigan Dental Society can help.
Flap