What is the top agenda item of the annual meeting of Canada’s physicians? Fixing their broken health care system. Here’s a taste:
The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country’s health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.
Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country – who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting – recognize that changes must be made.
“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
“We know that there must be change,” she said. “We’re all running flat out, we’re all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands.”
The pitch for change at the conference is to start with a presentation from Dr. Robert Ouellet, the current president of the CMA, who has said there’s a critical need to make Canada’s health-care system patient-centred. He will present details from his fact-finding trip to Europe in January, where he met with health groups in England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and France.
His thoughts on the issue are already clear. Ouellet has been saying since his return that “a health-care revolution has passed us by,” that it’s possible to make wait lists disappear while maintaining universal coverage and “that competition should be welcomed, not feared.”
In other words, Ouellet believes there could be a role for private health-care delivery within the public system.
The annual meeting of Canadian bureaucrats in St. Barts issued a statement. “These doctors will be re-assimilated.”
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“…competition should be welcomed, not feared.”
Somehow I doubt this will get any play South of the Canadian border.
God fucking damn it.
Got back this morning from a protest outside Barack’s VFW speech in Phoenix. I knew the local news people were going to skew it, but they all keep focusing on the one asshole who came to the protest with an AR-15 slung on his back and was eager to point out that it was legal in our state to do so. (And I don’t even know whose side he was on.)
That and I can’t find myself in any of the photos taken of the event.
Of course they are going to focus on the idiot with the AK. Thats what these clueless media zerons do. It doesn’t matter though. Obama lost control of the message. How many people showed up Jake?
Imagine if Pres. Bush were supporting a major legislative initiative similar to one in Canada, and Canadian officials were struggling trying to fix their own system around the same time the US policy was being discussed.
Think that nugget would be all over the news? Yup?
Let’s see how far this Canadian story goes …
The Zero also thought CA was a great example of success.