Nationaler Post – Mindestens 15.000 Kanadier starben im Laufe eines Jahres auf eine Operation oder einen diagnostischen Scan, so die von der Public Policy Think Tank Secondstreet.org gesammelten staatlichen Daten.
Die wahre Zahl für das Geschäftsjahr 2023-24 ist aufgrund eines „riesigen Lochs“ in den Daten wahrscheinlich fast doppelt so hoch wie der Präsident der Secondstreet, Colin Craig. Fehlende Daten von Quebec, Alberta, Neufundland und Labrador und dem größten Teil von Manitoba.
Die staatlichen Gesundheitsbehörden, die auf Anfragen über Informationsfreiheit (FOI) reagierten, machen 62 Prozent der Bevölkerung aus. „Wenn die Ergebnisse der Provinzen, die uns Daten lieferten, über Provinzen extrapoliert werden, die es nicht taten, steigt die Gesamtsteigerung von 28.000 Menschen an“, sagte Craig.
Der Bericht ist der neueste Brief „gestorben auf einer Warteliste“ -Richtlinie von Secondstreet, seit die konservativen Organisation im Frühjahr 2018 begann, die Wartelisten-Todesfälle zu verfolgen. Seitdem hat der Think Tank 74.677 Fälle gezählt, in denen Kanadier während des Wartens auf Behandlungen verstorben sind. Diese reichen von potenziell lebensrettenden, wie Herzoperationen oder Krebstherapie bis hin zu lebenssteigernden, wie Kataraktoperationen und Hüftersatz.
Trotz historisch hoher Gesundheitsausgaben in Kanada ist „es klar, dass das Geld allein diese Gesundheitskrise nicht lösen kann“, so der Bericht.
„Kanadier zahlen wirklich hohe Steuern und dennoch scheitert unser Gesundheitssystem im Vergleich zu verbesserten Universalsystemen in Europa“, sagte Harrison Fleming, Legislativ- und Politikdirektor bei Secondstreet, in einer Pressemitteilung. „Tausende Kanadier im ganzen Land befinden sich auf Wartelisten – in einigen Fällen seit mehreren Jahren -, wobei zu viele tragisch sterben, bevor sie jemals behandelt oder sogar diagnostiziert werden.“
„Wir sind uns einer Regierung in Kanada nicht bewusst, die diese Daten mit Zweck verfolgt“, sagte Craig. Stattdessen scheint es zufällig verfolgt zu werden.
„Jemand ruft an und sagt: ‚Ich möchte Sie nur wissen lassen, dass mein Mann verstorben ist, also muss er nicht mehr operiert werden.‘ Und die Person, die die (Wait-List Management-Software) leitet, klickt auf ein Feld, in dem diese Operation storniert wird. „Oh, der Patient ist gestorben.“
„Wir sind uns einer Regierung, die diese Daten wirklich analysiert, sie analysiert, sie analysiert und Änderungen an der Grundlage von“ Wir haben viele Patienten sterben, während wir auf das Verfahren X warten. “ Das sollte passieren. “
Für ihren jüngsten Bericht reichte Secondstreet FOI -Anfragen in ganz Kanada mit mehr als 30 staatlichen Gesundheitsabteilungen, Gesundheitsbehörden und Gesundheitsregionen für Fälle ein, in denen Menschen zwischen dem 1. April 2023 und dem 31. März 2024 aus chirurgischen und diagnostischen Wartelisten entfernt wurden, weil sie gestorben sind.
Nur 12 Gesundheitsbehörden in sieben Provinzen lieferten vollständige oder teilweise Daten. Alberta verfolgt die Daten nicht mehr, sagte Craig, obwohl er fünf Jahre in Folge Informationen bereitstellte.
Laut dem Bericht starben im Geschäftsjahr 2023-24 mindestens 15.474 Menschen in Kanada in einer chirurgischen oder diagnostischen Wartezeit. Die Waiten variierten von weniger als einer Woche bis zu mehr als 14 Jahren.
Nach den angebotenen Informationsgesundheitsbehörden starben 11.682 Menschen, während sie auf eine MRT, eine Koloskopie oder einen anderen diagnostischen Scan warteten, während 3.792 während des Wartens auf eine Operation starben.
Die Todesfälle der chirurgischen Warteliste waren im Vorjahr in Gesundheitsbehörden mit fünf Jahren Daten zurückzuführen. Ontario verzeichnete einen Rückgang des Vorjahres von 2.096 im Jahr 2022-23 auf 1.935. Die Todesfälle der Diagnose -Scan -Warteliste nahmen auch in Ontario von 9.404 auf 7.947 ab.
„Offensichtlich ist das ein positives Zeichen“, sagte Craig. „Aber ich glaube nicht, dass jemand feiern sollte, dass wir immer noch Tausende von Menschen in Ontario haben, während wir auf Operationen oder diagnostische Scans warten.“
Jüngste Daten von Ontario Health deuten darauf hin, dass 378 Menschen 2023-24 gestorben sind, während er auf eine Herzoperation oder auf ein Herzverfahren wartete, sagte er. Was nicht klar ist, ist „wie viele dieser Patienten gestorben sind, weil das System einfach zu lange gedauert hat“, sagte Craig.
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Israel has free healthcare too but it’s better because it is funded by US taxpayers
Quebec is the worst…no doctors and your best chance of getting a diagnostic scan is of you have a life threatening car accident….
I received a shoulder reconstruction surgery and only paid for my prescription opioid medication out of pocket. Definitely not free per say
Did they die BECAUSE they didn’t get the surgery/were on the waitlist, or did they HAPPEN to die while they were on the waitlist for something else?
There are drawbacks to everything. But I still rather have a Universal Healthcare system.
And now, a new study in today’s American Journal of Public Health says the numbers are a lot higher than we thought. The study estimates that **35,327 to 44,789 people between the ages of 18 and 64** die in the U.S. each year because they lack heath insurance.
No it’s not “free” we have unnaturally high taxation rates and it’s definetly not perfect. Many flaws that need to be corrected, including lack of ability to retaining qualified physicians – despite having amazing education programs, longer than average waitlists, overcrowding of hospitals and underfunding of preventative medicine and mental health.
BUT I would still rather this, than a privatized system that prioritizes those who have money and power over those who do not.
Insurance companies should not be able to dictate who lives and who dies based off how much money they can afford.
Lol, millions of americans have died from preventable heart diseases because they believe they cant afford to go to the hospital.
74k? Thats barely a scratch in the American system you fool.
Health care, just like every human resource or service, is a zero sum game. The more people have access to it, the worse it will be for everyone but at least they’ll have something. It’s all a balancing act. Just have to ask yourself whether you’d be okay sacrificing the quality of your own care so that more people get it (and most Americans would definitely answer no lol)
This is what privatisation does and blames it on socialism. Look up Tommy Douglas. It worked for decades until it was pillaged by the same people who are selling us all down the river. We are focuse horizontal when we should be looking vertical.
Still a much better system than in the us.
Cool
Now run the numbers who die in the U.S. because health care is unaffordable
Then do the medical/related bankruptcies
Imagine being this cucked and defending that who gets healthcare should be based on how much money they have, not how serious it is and what the resources available are.
Let’s watch Trump’s big beautiful bill fuck every average American, and then come back to this conversation
[Lack of Insurance to Blame for Almost 45,000 Deaths: Study](https://pnhp.org/news/lack-of-insurance-to-blame-for-almost-45000-deaths-study/)
It took me a second to realize why that number is higher than the average number of Americans who died EACH YEAR due to lack of insurance. It’s because your total is from 2018. You are padding your numbers. Less people die on the Canadian system than America.
I couldn’t find direct numbers on how many people have died due to insurance companies denying treatment. Though it is enough for a person to shoot an insurance CEO in public.
Blame Ford in Ontario
This is probably entirely because many provinces are run by conservatives who are actively to ruining our health care system so they can move us to a private system so they can make more money
The Canadian health system has a „one issue only problem“. You go to your GP (if you have one) and you’re allowed to enquire about one problem. That goes up the chain, to the wait list and back down. I had fluid on my lungs which turned out to be lymphatic cancer, and the only way I found out was because a man outside the hospital said emergency is the only way to be seen, and that you have to say certain things to get a scan. I had to scam my way into treatment. Canada is a disaster
Us has 200.00 deaths a year Deaths Associated with Health Insurance / Access to Care so it’s 1.400.000 since 2018! 0.4% of the population!
https://pnhp.org/news/estimated-us-deaths-associated-with-health-insurance-access-to-care/
I’m canada your lucky if you can find a doctor.
In my 40’s / Living in AB – I just paid $30k for a private hip replacement. AMA
Bunch of Americans will say, no I wish I was in Canada cause America sucks, then actual Canadians will point out that their taxes are insane and their healthcare is actual shit, then the Americans will say they are lying cause America sucks.
I can tell you a good portion of that is transplant wait lists. There is no amount of money in the world that will make that list shorter unless it’s on organ donation campaigns. My father will likely die in that list.
“A specialist will be in touch with you in the next 6 months”
They practice euthanasia as well…
And what’s the wait time for fully insured people in America? Yeah that’s what I thought.
Yes the health care is free but and it’s a biiiig booty but that is if you can get to see a doctor. The majority of the people I know of who were born and raised in Canada don’t have a “family” doctor. The drop in clinics are overwhelmed and don’t give a F what’s wrong with you and you can’t blame them with how overloaded they are. Really the nurses are the best thing we have in our health care system.
It’s a rotating door with every part of our medical system in Canada, but I am thankful for the stitches x-rays etc that I’ve needed haven’t left me bankrupt. If you’re a proactive person you have to be delicate with how you approach the system here otherwise they’ll think you’re a hypochondriac then you’re really boned.
And yet Canadian life expectancy is better than the US. Weird huh? It’s almost as if publicly funded healthcare works.
You make it more accessible, more people try to use it. It makes it less accessible.
You charge more, it’s less accessible. therefore, less people use it. Making it more accessible.
Paid article by the cabal to pu for privatization of the public health care system in Canada.
No doubt these number are FAKE.
They should instead post the death statistics from the USA private healthcare, a disgrace for majority of Americans.
My entire YouTube and content was started because I watched my grandmother die from a cancer she wanted to fight. I still can’t believe they let her die- her parents died a year and 2 years before her. It was and still is a shock to me and it happened in 2021
okay sooo government healthcare is bad…. and you guys also say private health insurance corporations are bad…. so what the fuck do you people want?
I think you have to understand health care is largely influenced also by personal opinion too.
Unfortunately family doctors are poorly paid at least in BC, leaving many to burnout and retire. There is almost no contingency plan for patients afterwards. If the doctors are lucky to find a person who will take on their patients then those patients get referred, if not patients are left trying to find their own doctor.
And unfortunately, yes, doctors do screen patients and will decline complex patients. You almost have to lie on the forms to get in and then be honest afterwards.
I’m waiting for a NP but they get to chose if they want me as a patient or not. But it’s been a few weeks so now I’m losing hope.
I do think a big problem is the system choosing to cheap out in health care.
BC alleges they’re doing what they can to fix it, but problems run deep. It goes beyond poor pay – getting right testing in a timely manner, proper interventions etc, and cost. People also don’t realise medical intervention isn’t cheap and getting medical coverage for certain conditions is also awful. If you don’t have expendable income it is a rough go.
Even urgent and primary care is supposed to be intended as a bridge but getting in as a patient on those sites takes a lot of work too. And it’s not clear exactly the mandates either for qualifying patients. It’s a shit show really.
I know a family member went to the states for cancer treatment as the wait list was so long here they would have likely passed if they hadn’t done so, but the bc govt set up an agreement with Washington state to accept some Canadian patients.
US dead due to lack of healthcare is more.
And there are some that prefer this result of “free” healthcare.
And millions of Americans will he uninsured and die.
I also want to add it’s not that it’s bad to have free health care and we should eliminate it. It’s that we have to work on improving it.
Not like paid healthcare on the US is that much better. I have heard more than once health care professionals giving me better care because I could pay. That’s disgusting too. Went to school in the US and know friends who had to bail on semesters at school because they had to pay off their medical bill first.
We don’t have that problem here in Canada at least.
Throw it all out guys, and remember: if you find a flaw in any policy besides Capitalism itself, you need to discard it immediately. Not Capitalism though. Don’t go looking for flaws in Capitalism. Don’t apply the same rules to Capitalism guys I’m serious.
I live in Arizona and pay private insurance.
I have to wait 9 months just to get an appointment to see a new PCP.
Tell me again how for profit healthcare doesn’t have long wait lists.
The alternative to long wait lists is shorter lists, if it’s a for profit healthcare system. In other words, the lists are shorter because more people don’t receive necessary healthcare.
People will just get sick and die an unnecessary or premature death.
Profiting off the sick and injured should be illegal.
That’s a legit genocide right there
National Post is garbage, and anything published by them is editorial not news. Unreliable crap owned by an American Trumper. That newspaper isn’t fit for the bottom of a birdcage.
It’s all part of the depopulation plan.
Ok now do how many Americans died waiting who had very expensive health insurance… I’ll wait.