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Originally Posted by flameswin
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.
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I was born and raised in Canada until I was 22 and since then I have lived in the USA. I am 30 years old now. Yes it's expensive here in the USA but as a college educated woman (whew, my degree is actually good for something) who's had a full time job with benefits since she's graduated university, I've never had issues with health care here. I know there are hundreds of thousands of people suffering here in the USA because of the cost, but I have been lucky in that my employer pays all of my costs. I am married and my husband also has his employer pay for it and by us each having dual coverage, we dont have to pay anything for copays or pharmacy either.
And I guess right now I am frustrated with the Canadian system because of the loooooong wait times. My dad first went to his PCP in January and took until April to get diagnosed with cancer. He went through lots of blood tests, CT scans, MRI's, a bronchoscopy, and some other stuff I prolly am forgetting but considering how fast small cell lung cancer spreads..why did it take SO long to get appointments for tests to diagnose it?????? I thought I had a lump in my armpit a few years ago and even though Kaiser is crappy in California, I got an appt for a CT scan the very same day (2 hours after my initial appt). My dad had to wait upto a couple weeks in between tests.
So yeah thats why Im frustrated with the system....and to hear that a man died because no one checked on him. Poor dude. Mistakes are okay but when it causes life and death? They should be sued for negligence to make sure it doesnt happen again (not for the money because that doesnt replace the man, but just so they dont ever make that mistake of asking).