On May 15, 7:12=A0am, "Dionysus" <no surren...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> FROM NCPA
>
> HEAD: LONG WAITS FOR HEALTH CARE ARE COSTING CANADIANS BILLIONS
>
> Excessive waits for health care services endured by Canadian patients
have=
> imposed huge costs on the nation's citizens according to a study from
the
> Centre for Spatial Economics.
>
> Other major findings:
>
> The study of medical wait times in all 10 of Canada's provinces found
> excessive delays for four key procedures--total joint replacement
surgery,=
> cataract surgery, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and magnetic
> resonance imaging (MRI) scans--cost the nation an estimated $14.8
billion =
in
> 2007.
>
> This in turn lowered federal and provincial government revenues by a
total=
> of $4.4 billion, the re****t noted.
> However, it is individuals who bear these costs. =A0When the government
> controls all of health care, it looks for ways to save money, and the
> easiest way to save is to deny care or ration care through long waits,
say=
s
> Charles M. Arlinghaus, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for
Public
> Policy.
>
> Rationing care by using waiting lists puts a heavy strain on an economy
by=
> incurring high costs through reduced worker productivity, says Devon
> Herrick, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.
> Canadian Medicare uses rationing by waiting because the cost of lost
> productivity is borne by the individual and employer, whereas the cost
of
> actually providing needed care falls on the public system.
>
> For example:
>
> Excessive waiting for total joint replacement surgery was the most
expensi=
ve
> byproduct of Canada's health care rationing, at nearly $26,400 per
patient=
..
>
> That was followed closely by MRIs ($20,000), coronary artery bypass
graft
> surgery ($19,400), and cataract surgery ($2,900).
> Herrick disagrees with the study's policy prescription, saying private
car=
e
> options would be more effective than increased government investment in
th=
e
> system.
>
> "Canadians should be allowed to pay for care privately if they so
choose.
> It is unconscionable to forbid patients from paying for care the public
> system cannot provide them in a timely manner," he says.
>
> Source: Sanjit Bagchi, "Long Waits for Health Care Are Costing Canadians
> Billions of Dollars," Health Care News, June 1, 2008.
> *********
> "Unconscionable," a wonderful one word description for socialist
medicine,=
> and the bozos want to do it here! The free market, capitalism, and
> competition are the only solutions everywhere.
>
> Dionysus
His Surrenderness sounds like a broken record with all his copy and
pastes!
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