re: #180 researchok

Sure, start here.

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada 2010 Report

Statistics Show Canadian Healthcare Is Inferior to American System

Surgical wait times jump to 18.2 weeks, second longest ever as all provinces record greater delays for treatment

Canadian health care wait times highest for orthopaedic surgery procedures

Quebec’s Wait Times for Surgery Jump to More Than 18 Weeks, Two Weeks Longer Than in 2009

Canadians visit U.S. to get health care

CANADA’S EXPECTANT MOMS HEADING TO U.S. TO DELIVER

Please understand I am for health care reform.

My point is that I believe Obama hit the nail on the head if gives local governments the wherewithal to deal with health care as best serves their needs. In looking at the ‘one size fits all model’, it is clear he has drawn his own conclusions

First link

“This January, the ombudsman ruled in Aucoin’s favor, awarding her the cost of treatment. She represents a dramatic new trend in Canadian health-care advocacy: finding the treatment you need in another country, and then fighting Canadian bureaucrats (and often suing) to get them to pick up the tab.”

First link is now invalid since once again all you’re showing is that the US is better IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY!

Second link doesn’t talk about comparable wait times in America so there’s no control group to measure your results against.

Third link has the same problem more or less what is this “median clinic” the Canadian results are being compared against?

Fourth link, once again I don’t see comparison against US times if they’re in there please point them out to me….

Fifth link: AGAIN NO COMPARISON TO WAIT TIMES IN THE US!

Sixth link: Is there a comparison to the US in this data? Because I don’t see it….

Seventh link

“”I go to the hospital in Windsor and two hours later, I’m done having angioplasty in Detroit,” he said. His $38,000 bill was covered by the Ontario health ministry.”

Oh hey look at that, once again COST IS NOT AN ISSUE IN THIS STORY!

“as well as people who pay out of pocket to avoid waiting in Canada.”

Okay that’s nice, BUT IT DOESN’T TALK AT ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN QUESTION AND WHAT THEIR FINANCIAL STATUS IS!

Last link

“The cost of these airlifts and treatments, paid to U.S. hospitals by the province under Canada’s universal health care system, runs upwards of $1,000 a child.”

Oh hey once again Canada is picking up the tab and not the patients!

Every one of your links fails!