tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post4501067657018824648..comments2024-01-30T12:46:10.810-05:00Comments on Yappa Ding Ding: We Have Met The Enemy and He Is UsYappahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-42443779631278059842010-10-24T11:59:24.599-04:002010-10-24T11:59:24.599-04:00Yappa, perhaps there's not more pushback becau...Yappa, perhaps there's not more pushback because many Canadians dislike their health care system. <br /><br />And it's funny that since you can't dispute his factual statistics, you simply dismiss him as a kook. Typical...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611032836078159508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-27067959904513635002010-10-24T11:56:56.937-04:002010-10-24T11:56:56.937-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611032836078159508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-69594734980748832232009-09-28T13:02:52.208-04:002009-09-28T13:02:52.208-04:00WesternGrit -
Hear, hear!WesternGrit -<br /><br />Hear, hear!Yappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-70722077352852424732009-09-28T12:59:08.523-04:002009-09-28T12:59:08.523-04:00Tomm,
I think all your comments are correct. My p...Tomm,<br /><br />I think all your comments are correct. My point was a side issue, that I am surprised there's not more push-back by Canadians about the way we're being vilified in the US media and political circles.Yappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-10984245350179522142009-09-28T12:57:57.786-04:002009-09-28T12:57:57.786-04:00Martin -
Weird example of liver transplants, sinc...Martin -<br /><br />Weird example of liver transplants, since transplants depend first and foremost on donors, which health providers have little control over.<br /><br />I have no idea if the numbers you cite are correct. After reading your second post with its paranoid ramblings about the World Health Organization, I doubt the veracity of anything you say.Yappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-51891285616301926902009-08-16T23:46:37.511-04:002009-08-16T23:46:37.511-04:00Oh... in response to WesternGrit's comments on...Oh... in response to WesternGrit's comments on WHO reports, WHO is simply an agency of the UN. The UN is a pseudo-democratic organization in which the majority of member countries are either communist, socialist, or dictatorships. The UN is politicized, and therefore the WHO is politicized. It doesn't surprise me that WHO has produced reports which are critical of the American health care system. However, when one of those country's political leaders needs a liver transplant, where do you think they are going to go, Canada, or the US?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611032836078159508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-44454555681334333692009-08-16T23:32:43.102-04:002009-08-16T23:32:43.102-04:00The author of the article does a marvelous job car...The author of the article does a marvelous job carefully picking the most favorable statistics about the Canadian health care system. However, I can pick a few stats of my own. In Canada, only 13 people per million get liver transplants each year. In the US, the number is 83 per million. So, it looks like 70 Canadians per million (or about 2,100) die each year because liver transplants are rationed in Canada. Just looking at the raw numbers, in 2004 (the most recent year for which I could find data) there were 404 liver transplants in Canada, while in the US there were 23,400 the same year. A difference of 23,000!<br /><br />OK, here's a stat the Canadians should like: In Canada, only 51 people died while on the waiting list for a liver in 2004. In the US, 2,018 people on the liver waiting list died that same year. How could that be? Are Canadians less likely to suffer from liver disease? Do Canadians drink less alcohol? (LOL, I used to live in Toronto, and I KNOW that's not true). Why do fewer Canadians die while on the waiting list? Simple... It's because in Canada it's nearly impossible to get on the waiting list, much less get an actual transplant! And this doesn't just apply to liver transplants. It applies to nearly every other type of major surgery, too. Sure, it might be easy to get a prescription for for amoxicillin or to get a mole removed, but seriously, life-saving health care is rationed in Canada. That's just a fact. Sorry...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611032836078159508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-4836818431249956582009-08-03T06:12:12.548-04:002009-08-03T06:12:12.548-04:00It's the Obama effect. They are our "bes...It's the Obama effect. They are our "best friends", but I too am appalled by the ignorance of their outright lies about our system of healthcare (which is simply much better than theirs').<br /><br />Unfortunately we are up against a concerted lobby/effort by drug companies, insurance companies, billions of lobby dollars, campaign funding (for mostly Republicans, but Dems too), and a media that is cross-owned by the Big Drug-Insurance-HealthCos...<br /><br />Oh... One more thing: We have a government whose very members and grassroots have spent YEARS bashing our system publicly, and on the campaign trail. Years of being told we "have a waiting list problem" has it's effect.<br /><br />I ask the clueless morons out there (on both sides of the border) to read the WHO reports, and maybe watch "Sicko"...WesternGrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658358114507615351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-89245678605125493392009-08-03T00:40:33.301-04:002009-08-03T00:40:33.301-04:00Yappa,
Obama's election has increased the pos...Yappa,<br /><br />Obama's election has increased the positive Canadian vibe with the US. I'm surprised you are surprised.<br /><br />I have a question though, the US is our best ally, our neighbor, a cultural mirror, and home to the vast majority of our exports. That being said, why wouldn't Canadian's feel good about American's? In comparison to any other nation on this planet, they are by the far and away our closest friend.Tommhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06072854015300215347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-63507742264844793732009-08-02T22:46:13.829-04:002009-08-02T22:46:13.829-04:00Have to say, that for the first time in a long tim...Have to say, that for the first time in a long time,I think Canadians are feeling sympathy for the US citizens. They see Americans struggle to get something we already have and treasure, see the chicanery practiced by healthcare opponents, and know that it's going to be tough. <br /><br />It also doesn't hurt that so far, Obama seems to be holding back most of the lions he's in the cage with...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com