Comments on: Canada Has Its Own Health Care Debate http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/03/canada-has-its-own-health-care-debate/ Politics and Culture from a Catholic perspective. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick Lugari http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/03/canada-has-its-own-health-care-debate/#comment-3624 Rick Lugari Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:48:04 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11236#comment-3624 Sorry, Ray. I was being sarcastic and mocking a type of argument that is offered by some in these parts. The really sad thing about it is that I didn't need to take much creative license to do it. Nevertheless, I should have written something at the end to indicate that I was being snarky. Sorry, Ray. I was being sarcastic and mocking a type of argument that is offered by some in these parts. The really sad thing about it is that I didn’t need to take much creative license to do it. Nevertheless, I should have written something at the end to indicate that I was being snarky.

]]> By: Ray O http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/03/canada-has-its-own-health-care-debate/#comment-3623 Ray O Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:42:26 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11236#comment-3623 Rick, You invoke the virtue of Hope in the same paragraph you call Abortion and Euthanasia "small things". In our creators eyes abortion is the modern day Holocaust. Hope is the virtue that makes the Christian Crave for the Kingdom of God and to place his trust in the promises of Jesus to get us there. Your insensitivity, to the point of trivialization, of the dignity of life clearly reflects your lack of Hope. Whenever a virtue whether Hope, Charity, Justice, etc are invoked without regard for it’s origin in divinity you have Nothing. Rick,
You invoke the virtue of Hope in the same paragraph you call Abortion and Euthanasia “small things”. In our creators eyes abortion is the modern day Holocaust. Hope is the virtue that makes the Christian Crave for the Kingdom of God and to place his trust in the promises of Jesus to get us there. Your insensitivity, to the point of trivialization, of the dignity of life clearly reflects your lack of Hope. Whenever a virtue whether Hope, Charity, Justice, etc are invoked without regard for it’s origin in divinity you have Nothing.

]]> By: Phillip http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/03/canada-has-its-own-health-care-debate/#comment-3622 Phillip Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:09:51 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11236#comment-3622 I also found this interesting. I wonder why this is happening? "While proponents of private clinics say they will shorten waiting lists and quicken service at public institutions, critics warn that they will drain the public system of doctors and nurses. Canada has a national doctor shortage already, with 1.4 million people in the province of Ontario alone without the services of a family doctor. "If anesthetists go to work in a private clinic," Manitoba's health minister, Tim Sale, argued recently, "the work that they were doing in the public sector is spread among fewer and fewer people." But most Canadians agree that current wait times are not acceptable. The median wait time between a referral by a family doctor and an appointment with a specialist has increased to 8.3 weeks last year from 3.7 weeks in 1993, according to a recent study by The Fraser Institute, a conservative research group. Meanwhile the median wait between an appointment with a specialist and treatment has increased to 9.4 weeks from 5.6 weeks over the same period. Average wait times between referral by a family doctor and treatment range from 5.5 weeks for oncology to 40 weeks for orthopedic surgery, according to the study." I also found this interesting. I wonder why this is happening?

“While proponents of private clinics say they will shorten waiting lists and quicken service at public institutions, critics warn that they will drain the public system of doctors and nurses. Canada has a national doctor shortage already, with 1.4 million people in the province of Ontario alone without the services of a family doctor.

“If anesthetists go to work in a private clinic,” Manitoba’s health minister, Tim Sale, argued recently, “the work that they were doing in the public sector is spread among fewer and fewer people.”

But most Canadians agree that current wait times are not acceptable.

The median wait time between a referral by a family doctor and an appointment with a specialist has increased to 8.3 weeks last year from 3.7 weeks in 1993, according to a recent study by The Fraser Institute, a conservative research group. Meanwhile the median wait between an appointment with a specialist and treatment has increased to 9.4 weeks from 5.6 weeks over the same period.

Average wait times between referral by a family doctor and treatment range from 5.5 weeks for oncology to 40 weeks for orthopedic surgery, according to the study.”

]]> By: Rick Lugari http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/03/canada-has-its-own-health-care-debate/#comment-3621 Rick Lugari Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:45:40 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11236#comment-3621 But..but..you're just pointing out the inefficiencies and poor care because you're already against government control of health care. Just like when you railed against GovMed because it will cover abortion and most likely euthanasia. These are small things, the important thing is that we have the honorable and intelligent people in congress give everyone free health care. Where's the <em>hope</em>, people?!? But..but..you’re just pointing out the inefficiencies and poor care because you’re already against government control of health care. Just like when you railed against GovMed because it will cover abortion and most likely euthanasia. These are small things, the important thing is that we have the honorable and intelligent people in congress give everyone free health care. Where’s the hope, people?!?

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