Somebody Should Have Told Me This
Just when I figured I should give up on Canadian healthcare and sign up for the NRO cruise I come across this little tidbit.
And let’s not forget that a study by the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine (warning: pdf) estimates that at least 18,000 people die each year from inadequate health coverage. That’s the the equivalent of thirty World Trade Center bombings in the years since 9/11.
Now the head of the Institute of Medicine could be Ramsay Clark for all I know and I’m sure that there are excellent reasons to ignore the study but even if that figure has been exaggerated by a factor of ten...wow.
No Canadian likes the long delays patients face for some procedures but if this study is accurate then I’ll stick with the system I have.
