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Originally Posted by OilersBaby
Sucks big time. The US isn't the only one with health care issues. Sure in Canada everyone is entitled to health care but what's the point if you die while waiting for it?
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This post sounds very defensive, are you by chance American? It sounds like you're grasping at straws a little bit here, despite our wait times, Canada is nowhere near the States in terms of health care problems. Also,this unfortunite incident is not a good example to say "Sure in Canada everyone is entitled to health care but what's the point if you die while waiting for it?" It was a mistake. If the patient had checked in, and then was left knowingly in the waiting room, then passed away, then it would be an example you could use.
You're trying to make it sound like this is an example of how bad our health care is, that it's gotten to the point where patients die waiting for help. I completely disagree, and believe that this is an unfortunite case of poor comunication/oversight, call it what you will, but it was not due to major overcrowding or lack of resources. I know one could make the argument that more staff would have solved this particular case, but it's a case of having maybe one person in charge of walking around the ER looking at each person periodically, it's not like throwing billions of dollars at health and reinventing the health care system as we know it would have changed this outcome. It was one isolated, unfortunite circumstance, nothing more imo.