At least 15,000 Canadians died in a single year while waiting for their “free” government healthcare, some of them having been on the waiting list for more than 14 years, according to a new report from Saskatchewan-based think tank SecondStreet.org.
In a January 15 press release, SecondStreet.org legislative and policy director Harrison Fleming said:
Canadians pay really high taxes and yet our health care system is failing when compared to better-performing universal systems in Europe. Thousands of Canadians across the country find themselves on waitlists — in some cases for several years — with too many tragically dying before ever getting treated, or even diagnosed.
Wait Loss
SecondStreet.org filed Freedom of Information requests with various provincial healthcare bodies, seeking data on patients who had died while awaiting treatment between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024.
From the responses it received, the group was able to determine that “at least 15,474 patients died in Canada while waiting for surgeries or diagnostic scans.”
However, that count is based on data from “only 12 health bodies in seven provinces (representing 62% of the population),” and some of those only provided data indicating patients who died while awaiting surgery but not those who died while awaiting diagnostic scans. Extrapolating from the available data, SecondStreet.org estimated that 28,077 patients died in the government’s healthcare queue. […]
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As someone who worked in and with the system for 40 years,I know exactly why the Canadian system is failing: it was Americanized through “Health Care Reform” and the mass immigration that has happened over the last 35+ years.
Health care reform brought “Health Regions” which were essentially the American Health Maintenance Organizations my physician cousins complained ruined the US system. While heath regions may have made sense in some rural areas, they have been a disaster for cities where the Health Region decides which hospital will do what. On top of that, waiting lists for diagnostic testing grow because there are no filters to access, meaning anyone that picks up the phone can order a test without meeting proper criteria. In the hospital where I worked, the Technologist in Charge of the CT scanner was accused of being incompetent because the Northwestern Hospital in Chicago was doing, on average, six more patients a day with the same scanner. On investigation, it was found that, in fact Northwestern was doing on average 6 patients a day more, but they had TWO SCANNERS.
With that chaos occurring, over that same time period, Canada has increased its population by about 1/3, PLUS hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers, all of which have put a massive strain on the system.
Until “health care reform” (deform) Canada had the health care system the rest of the world looked to as being the best. It’s destruction has been intentional.
And how many Americans die every year (and/or lose their homes) due to lack of access to health care? Several years ago the count was 40,000. It’s likely even worse now. But I realize that’s not the kind of news this web site wants to acknowledge.