Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:41:54 -0400 From: "Bosco D'Mello" <[email protected]>
The 'respected' Fraser Institute is a right-leaning, conservative think-tank and registered charity. Mario responds: On the other hand, Bosco and his cronies are left-leaning, liberal individuals who have apparently never heard of a medical waiting list in Canada, where they live. Pretty amazing.. The 2009 report from the Fraser Institute repeated the 2006 report I posted earlier of the rationing in the FREE Canadian health care system of serious medical procedures. Bosco only has biased personal anecdotes in response. So, he has decided to attack the members and officers of the Fraser Institute with personal invective and snide slurs - accusing THEM of being biased, dishonest and "greedy". By the way, the Institute publishes its "biased" reports openly so that their research can be scrutinised by serious individuals. Perhaps Bosco can contact Nadeem Esmail and offer to debate him on Goanet. Rather than rebutt the reports of the worsening rationing of health care in Canada in spite of the escalating costs with credible information that there is no serious rationing of health care in Canada, Bosco "objective" information is to cite unsubstantiated anecdotes by a left leaning crony who has admitted to being a socialist and admirer of Castro, Chavez and their new Comrade Obama. So, let me provide another Canadian target and see how Bosco tries to demonize him. This one is John Turley-Ewart, the National Post's deputy comment Editor. In addition to writing editorials and op eds for the National Post and Financial Post, Turley-Ewart is a member of the National Post's editorial board: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/01/29/john-turley-ewart-rationing-health-care-in-canada-continues-to-take-its-toll.aspx Excerpt: This is now the norm in Canada where rationed care leaves people hanging and hoping that their turn in the system will finally come, providing the diagnoses or relief that they need to move on with their lives. That rationing extends beyond the operating theatre. The Canadian Medical Association now estimates that more than 4 million Canadians don't have a family doctor. That amounts to 12% of the population, an astounding number that make efforts to direct people away from emergency rooms when they are sick a near useless endeavour. How far is Canada behind its OECD peers? The CMA paints a bleak picture: "The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average number of physicians per 1000 population is 36% higher than Canada's. To match the OECD ratio, Canada would need 26,000 more physicians." Canada is nowhere near able to produce the doctors it now requires, a shortage that was created two decades ago when provincial health ministers thought they could reduce health care spending by reducing the number of doctors they graduated annually. [end of excerpts] Once he figures out how to attack John Turley-Ewart, perhaps Bosco can start attacking the reports by the BBC and The Guardian of the rationing of health care in another FREE national health care system, in good old Blighty. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/may/06/health.politics http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/251988.stm
