The anecdotal evidence has been growing for awhile that more and more Canadians are traveling to other countries, primarily the US, for medical care. Between the advertisements offering Canadians quick surgeries, to the stories we hear from family and friends
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Socialized Medicine Doesn’t Improve Health of the Poor
Among the pillars of Canada’s health care system is the contention that it improves the health of the poor. By doing away with financial impediments to medical services, Canada’s socialized regime is supposed to enable the poor to live as healthily
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CCF: Origins of Canadian Socialism
Canada today is most clearly a socialist nation, but without delving back to the earlier part of the 20th Century it is not apparent why. Was the culprit imported egalitarian ideals from Europe? Perhaps the transformation of a lingering admiration
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On the Right to Medical Insurance
Many claim that health care is a human right and that only an unjust society such as our own would fail to provide adequate coverage in this regard.
The problem with this claim is that it is but a variant of
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Telling Health Care Stats
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 by posted in Health Care.
Following up on Predrag Rajsic’s article today, “Time as a Price”, here are a number of illuminating charts generated from the StatsCan website:
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 105-3002.
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 105-3003
In other words, wait times for a visit
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Time as a Price
Canadian emergency rooms are infamous for their long wait times. A recent study has shown that in most of them the average wait time exceeds 6 hours and sometimes reaches up to 23 hours. While some call for action in
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The IMF has its say on Canada
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is out with its annual report on Canada’s economy. No one with even the slightest familiarity with IMF reports would identify that organization as Austrian in its orientation. Even so, the analysis provided by the
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BC’s new Gunshot and Stab Wound Disclosure Act
Saturday, December 11th, 2010 by posted in Civil Liberties, Economics, Health Care, Lifestyle, Politics, War on Drugs.
BC’s new Gunshot and Stab Wound Disclosure Act is set to come into effect February 1, 2011. It essentially conscripts medical professionals into the ranks of police informants by forcing them to report any gunshot wound (or would
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