Comments on: Hanging By A Thread http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian-health-care-stories/hanging-by-a-thread/ Mon, 07 May 2012 22:02:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kartik http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian-health-care-stories/hanging-by-a-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Kartik Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:59:12 +0000 http://thepatientfactor.com/?p=70#comment-434 have gone and still go - I should say.... have gone and still go – I should say….

]]> By: Kartik http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian-health-care-stories/hanging-by-a-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Kartik Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:58:44 +0000 http://thepatientfactor.com/?p=70#comment-433 She's 1 amongst 1000s who go to the US for live saving or life improving treatment or diagnostic tests. Too many Canadians needlessly suffer and many also die waiting for care. It REALLY needs reform. A truly competitive market would work - with insurance returning back to it's traditional role. Some on the left like to use the life expectancy and infant mortality rate statistic to say our system is better. But those are terrible statistics when comparing health care systems. In fact, when it comes to survival rates for various forms of cancer, the US does marvelously and we're middle of the road. They have a cost issue and their system is not even close to being a free market - with the concept of insurance for health care being distorted to become first dollar payment for everything. More competition is what they need, as do WE! She’s 1 amongst 1000s who go to the US for live saving or life improving treatment or diagnostic tests. Too many Canadians needlessly suffer and many also die waiting for care. It REALLY needs reform. A truly competitive market would work – with insurance returning back to it’s traditional role.

Some on the left like to use the life expectancy and infant mortality rate statistic to say our system is better. But those are terrible statistics when comparing health care systems. In fact, when it comes to survival rates for various forms of cancer, the US does marvelously and we’re middle of the road. They have a cost issue and their system is not even close to being a free market – with the concept of insurance for health care being distorted to become first dollar payment for everything. More competition is what they need, as do WE!

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