{"id":285,"date":"2000-07-01T00:20:02","date_gmt":"2000-07-01T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2000\/07\/01\/you-want-to-take\/"},"modified":"2000-07-01T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2000-07-01T00:20:02","slug":"you-want-to-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2000\/07\/01\/you-want-to-take\/","title":{"rendered":"you want to take"},"content":{"rendered":"

you want to take my what?<\/u><\/b> – let’s talk about health
\n eh’? <\/p>\n

Some discussions this evening prompted me to take a moment out
\n and look at the health care system of Canada<\/a>.
\n OK, basically someone went into the standard "Canada rocks!
\n Our
\n health care<\/a> system…" stuff. I know, it’s a crock but
\n they are so proud of it.<\/p>\n

In any case, I bounced out onto the web and found some info<\/a>
\n about the situation up there. I have no intention of claiming that
\n this is a complete overview of the situation… nor am I implying
\n that there is nothing to be learned from our Northern neighbors
\n but I am a little tired of the smug thing eh’? <\/p>\n

Yes, it would be nice if health care in the US was free, yes there
\n are horror stories of families destroyed by the costs. I don’t think
\n the alternative shown in Canada is the answer. There is a good article<\/a>
\n at intellectualcapital.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n
\n

"Emergency rooms this winter are so crowded that
\n patients have been left to wait on hallway stretchers for
\n as long as 48 hours before a doctor sees them. Two deaths
\n in Toronto recently were blamed on the fact that ambulances
\n were turned away from overcrowded emergency wards. <\/p>\n

On average, Canadians have to wait six weeks to see
\n a specialist and a further seven weeks to get treatment. It
\n takes an average 11 weeks to get a MRI and five weeks for
\n a CT scan, according to Vancouver’s Fraser Institute, which
\n monitors waiting periods. <\/p>\n

Waiting lists for procedures like heart surgery or
\n radiation therapy for cancer stretch out for weeks, sometimes
\n months. When the delays get too long, the provinces of Ontario
\n and Quebec send cancer patients across the border to US hospitals,
\n at great expense." – link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

you want to take my what? – let’s talk about health eh’? Some discussions this evening prompted me to take a moment out and look at the health care system of Canada. OK, basically someone went into the standard "Canada rocks! Our health care system…" stuff. I know, it’s a crock but they are so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}