But Obama and the Dems in Congress can’t wait to implement the same kind of flawed model in the U.S.
Quebec’s health officials revealed Wednesday night that the province’s breast cancer testing is seriously flawed, putting the treatment and lives of women at risk in a debacle similar to what took place in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hundreds of Quebec women may have received inadequate or ineffective treatment due to improper assessments, according to a study done in 25 laboratories under the supervision of the province’s pathologists association. …
Quebec pathologists have demanded for years that the Quebec government undertake quality control tests of the province’s laboratories, but to no avail. The pathologists decided to conduct the study themselves, which the Ministry of Health and Social Services is now scrambling to deal with.
Why spend any time or money fixing the system when keeping flawed tests like that will keep overall costs down? If people die earlier or give up fighting against an immovable bureaucracy, then we don’t have them plugging up the hospitals.
Now compare the socialist model with the numbers that were just released in the U.S.
The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment.
About 560,000 people died of cancer that year, according to an American Cancer Society report released Wednesday. The new numbers show the death rate fell by less than 2 percent, but since that decline was better than the previous year, the cancer society applauded the progress. …
The CDC recently reported death rates fell for:
• Lung and trachea cancers, from 54 deaths per 100,000 in 2005 to 51.5 in 2006.
• Colorectal cancers, from 18 to 17 per 100,000.
• Breast cancer, from 27 to 23.5 per 100,000.
Update (June 1, 09) – Looks like the taxpayers in the U.K. are going through similar distress. They’re actually being forced to wait outside of Accident and Emergency Departments (emergency rooms) in ambulances, hallways, and garages for hours on end before they can even get into the A&E waiting rooms.
An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of 999 patients are being left to wait in ambulances in car parks and holding bays, or in hospital corridors – in some cases for more than five hours – before they can even join the queue for urgent treatment.
Experts warn that hospitals are deliberately delaying when they accept patients – or are diverting them to different sites – in order to meet Government targets to treat people within fours hours of admitting them.
I’ve added the emphasis to the second sentence. Remember though folks that this is the sort of thing that you see going on in socialized medicine where government targets are “met” by gaming the system like this. So you can expect to start seeing the same types of waits and delays when Obama-care is instituted.
