The Secrets Of Vancouver BC, Canada

Free Healthcare Means They Get To Dictate How We Live Breath and Eat

The regional health authority in Nova Scotia has banned the sale of some doughnuts and muffins at on-site Tim Hortons franchises.

In Nova Scotia, 4 of 30 hospitals offer abortion services…. Freedom of  choice.

A comprehensive 2004 study in the CMA Journal found preventable medical errors contribute to between 9,000 and 24,000 deaths in Canada a year.

Glad to see that they are looking out for us.

photo credit: Like_the_Grand_Canyon



David Dodge Drops The Health Care Bomb

David Dodge, former governor of the Bank of Canada, dropped a ticking time bomb, ad no one seems to have noticed.

The Canadian universal health care model, with governments as the major funders of service, is fiscally unsustainable.

Dodge reports that health care spending in Canada could rise to take up almost 19 per cent of the national economy within 20 years, up from about 12 per cent today.

In dollar terms, that works out to an increase from about $5,000 today to $10,700 by 2031 in constant dollars for every person in Canada. If Election 2011 is being fought over family values, how’s this for dinner-table political chat: Health care costs for a family of four will jump 50 per cent to $42,800 within 20 years. Story:

Get this: In the US, regardless of the income tax rate, has the tax revenue ever passed 20% of GDP. Call it Hauser’s Law, because it is as central to the economics of taxation as Boyle’s Law is to the physics of gases.

There simply is not enough money to tax our way out of this… as much as Canadians seem to love new taxes.

This means that Canada’s “Free” health care model needs to be addressed quickly – which we know will not happen.

So just when all of us Baby Boomers need it most, it will collapse.. or the country will.  Along with our Canada Pensions.

Make the choice soon.

photo credit: Sister72

Surviving Canada’s Health Care.

Glenn Beck helps us to navigate our health care system. Danny Williams’ story:

Where will we go now?

Bonus news on Glenn Beck…maybe this is why the left’s heads explode when you say his name.

Glenn Beck Made $32 Million in 2009

Worst Pro-Healthcare Ad Ever

Use sex (or lack of it) to pass health care.

Question: What would you withhold from someone who opposes health care reform? Cookies, a Christmas gift, sex?

Wonder who thought this up.  George Soros? The good thing is that this strategy will lead to less democrats being born.

Who Do You Trust?

Perhaps the worst spokesman ever.. on American Health Care reform.

The White House really needs to hire a czar to explain this Obamanation… their current spokesperson isn’t up to the job.

Let’s hope Americans kill it soon. The ramifications are huge for the world economy. And not in a good way, Joe.

Paramedics Endanger Vancouver.

Unions playing with people’s lives:

Following last week’s government-imposed back-to-work contract after a seven month strike….

Over 50 paramedics booked their shifts off right before they were about to start on Friday night,  pulling 35 ambulances off the road.

On Saturday more shifts were booked off, and the BCAS said it will be down 24 ambulances, including 10 in Metro Vancouver, and 10 in the Fraser Valley. Boston Bar, Hope, Agassiz, and Pemberton will be without an ambulance all together and will rely on neighbouring municipalities.

Victoria sent Vancouver a few ambulances to help deal with the shortage:

Sending ambulances from Victoria to the Lower Mainland on the weekend was “extremely stupid,” according to a spokesman for the union representing the province’s 3,500 ambulance paramedics.

“That was a very ill-conceived idea and someone needs to be held accountable,” said B.J. Chute, director of public education for the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C.

Two ambulances and two crews travelled by ferry from Victoria to the Lower Mainland Friday and remained there throughout yesterday.

No, B.J., pulling a stunt like this is stupid.

John Strohmeier, the president of CUPE Local 873, said the union had nothing to do with the cancelled shifts.

Glad to hear the union isn’t behind this. They won’t mind if, as Ronald Reagan did, we just fire anyone that misses work without proof.

Someone needs to be held accountable.

As the body count starts to rise in Vancouver, hopefully our politicians will realize that an outright ban on the union actions in health care is a reasonable solution. Or, even better, it’s time to open up the service to private competition.

That would end the union’s playing with people’s lives.

photo credit: t-dot-s-dot

Wall Street Journal Comment Wisdom

Came across this in the comments section in an article about Harry Reid and US healthcare… it’s about as close to fact as I’ve come across. It’s spreading across the net this month.

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn`t buy one.
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.
A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a black man or Hispanic are conservative, they see themselves as independently successful.
Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.
If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he’s in labor and then sues.

photo credit: Todd Ehlers

Canadians Tell USA – We’re Dying Up Here

Vancouver Sun: A former president of the Canadian Medical Association declares in a new U. S. television ad that patients here are languishing, suffering and even dying on wait lists, as a conservative lobby group ramps up the debate over health re-form in the United States.

A pro-medicare advocate calls the $1-million ad campaign by Conservatives for Patient Rights (CPR) on CNN and Fox News an “outrageous” distortion of the reality in this country, and has drafted an open letter to U. S. President Barack Obama refuting its claims.

A B. C. medical broker who is also working with the U. S. group, however, says Americans must know the pitfalls of “single-payer” systems like Canada’s.

This is sure to get a rise of our ‘Free Health Care’ supporters.

Here’s how I explain our health care to Americans:

Free means we pay high taxes – if Americans are willing to pay an additional 20-25% income tax, they too can have free health. My premuim in the US for my family was just over $1,000 a month (employer paid) – working out to 10% on an average family income of $80,000 (yes $80K… I lived in a rich state). The plan gave me access to specialists but had a yearly deductible of $1,500 for hospital.

In Canada the way to skip the waiting lists is to call an ambulance. This way they have to get you in a bed, and they put you in emergency status. My mother in law was bumped 3 times for open heart surgery and almost died. She wouldn’t take the emergency route because she was afraid she’d get a bill for the ambulance.

If you don’t have a family doctor, you’ll have to go to a walk-in clinic. Getting a family doctor is all but impossible as they have capped their earning. A hard working doctor is only allowed to work so hard. We’ve spent a year trying to get a family doctor.

Our hospitals are nice, clean and well run. If you need an operation, they put together the team. In the US you have to find and arrange each specialist for surgery.

We have cheap drugs. And very little drug research because of it.

The US already has free health care – it’s called Medicaid. I did a marketing program for a medicaid enroller in new York. My job was to get people signed up – illegal immigrants, low income and people whose companies didn’t offer insurance. These programs, referred to as Medicaid managed care, allow private insurance companies or health maintenance organizations to contract directly with a state Medicaid department at a fixed price per enrollee. The health plans then enroll eligible individuals into their programs and become responsible for assuring Medicaid benefits are delivered to eligible beneficiaries. It costs between $7 and $50 a month. To qualify all you do is take a means test. It also includes full dental and vision which is better than Canada. And it is bankrupting the states.

Having experienced both systems, I much prefer the current US one. But I’m a white guy that works for a living…

Is The Looting Almost Over?

Or has it just begun… Obama shows his logic in this interview.

C-SPAN INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

President Barack H. Obama

Host:  Steve Scully

Tape Date:  Friday, May 22, 2009

Air Date/Time:  Saturday, May 23 at 10:00 am ET

SCULLY:  Yet, it all takes money.  You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion.  At what point do we run out of money?

OBAMA:  Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we’ve made on health care so far.  This is a consequence of the crisis that we’ve seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades.

So we’ve got a short-term problem, which is we had to spend a lot of money to salvage our financial system, we had to deal with the auto companies, a huge recession which drains tax revenue at the same time it’s putting more pressure on governments to provide unemployment insurance or make sure that food stamps are available for people who have been laid off.

So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem.  The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem.  And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare.  If we don’t reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can’t get control of the deficit.

So, one option is just to do nothing.  We say, well, it’s too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care.  We can’t afford it. We’ve got this big deficit.  Let’s just keep the health care system that we’ve got now.

Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything. That’s the wrong option.

I think the right option is to say, where are the game changers, the investments that we can make now that are going to reduce costs, even if they don’t reduce them this year or next year, but 10 years from now or 20 years from now, we are going to see substantially lower costs.

So if his “trajectory” shows that health care will consume everything – the answer is more?

Obama should look to Canada and how our government run health care has evolved  – the Canadian Government used to cover 50% of the costs, now it’s around 25%…

In BC, health care costs are now 41% of the provincial budget – predicted to rise to 70% in the coming years.

It’s a great model to follow if you want to cripple the American dream and tax the incentive out of prosperity.

And from Kate:

Who Can Take Tomorrow? Spend It All Today?