Medicine In Canada

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WaPo - I'm sure - meant this story as a slap to "overpaid" doctors in the US.

In a move that can only be described as utterly Canadian, hundreds of doctors in Quebec are protesting their pay raises, saying they already make too much money.

As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 700 physicians, residents and medical students from the Canadian province had signed an online petition asking for their pay raises to be canceled. A group named Médecins Québécois Pour le Régime Public (MQRP), which represents Quebec doctors and advocates for public health, started the petition Feb. 25.

Then it goes on to describe the reasons the docs are pushing back:

The physicians group said it could not in good conscience accept pay raises when working conditions remained difficult for others in their profession — including nurses and clerks — and while patients “live with the lack of access to required services because of drastic cuts in recent years.”

I thought the Canadian system was supposed to be a model for what the US should do to fix its own "health care crisis".

Wrote a nurse, who is troubled by working conditions and the standard of patient care:

“I don’t know where you're going to get your information, but it’s not in the reality of nursing,” the nurse wrote. She later added: “I am broken by my profession, I am ashamed of the poverty of the care that I provide as far as possible. My Health system is sick and dying.”

Hmmm.....

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Oh, and sorry in advance to some who would complain that this post is "anecdotal"...

[Chicks]

Here’s an idea. How ‘bout we ask the Canadian people if they are happy with their healthcare system?

New poll shows Canadians overwhelmingly support public health care

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/...c-health-care/

Oops. Poor Whell.

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Originally Posted by whell

Oh, and sorry in advance to some who would complain that this post is "anecdotal"...

It's funny how you knew that a single data point does not a trend make but you went with it anyway.

Thanks for the chuckles, Mike. My seventh grade debate team would've mugged you before eating your lunch, of course that was Montgomery county, Md., where they actually spent some money on edumacation...

[finnbow]

Never mind the anecdotes: Do Canadians like their health-care system?

By an overwhelming margin, Canadians prefer the Canadian health care system to the American one. Overall, 82% said they preferred the Canadian system, fully ten times the number who said the American system is superior (8%).

The vast majority of Canadians, 91 per cent, felt that Canada's health care system was better than the United States.




http://news.gallup.com/poll/8056/hea...in-canada.aspx

I guess Whell came here looking for yet another beat-down. Sometimes, I feel like I'm picking on an intellectual cripple.