“Healthcare Crisis”

Too many Canadians are leaving ERs before getting assessed

Last year, more than 1.2 million Canadians walked into an emergency room desperate for help, and walked out without ever being treated. That’s one in 13 patients nationwide. These people didn’t leave because their problems weren’t serious, but because the wait was simply too long.

A new report from the Montreal Economic Institute, or MEI, provides the first national snapshot of this troubling trend. Researchers obtained data directly from provincial ministries of health to track how many patients left emergency departments without being seen in 2024. The results are sobering.

Gotta give all that free healthcare to the 3rd World invaders our government ordered.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis"

Nearly 6M Canadians on Medical Waitlists as Delays Outpace Pandemic Backlog: Report

Nearly six million Canadians are currently on a health-care waitlist, surpassing levels recorded in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report suggests.

Government data obtained by think tank SecondStreet.org indicate at least 3.7 million Canadians are waiting for surgery, a diagnostic scan, or to see a specialist. But the organization is suggesting figures from Canada’s provinces and territories may not tell the full story.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", "Healthcare"

Canadians are leaving emergency rooms untreated in droves

Canada is facing an epidemic that most politicians simply won’t talk about – a staggering number of patients are left untreated because they leave emergency rooms rather than endure long wait times.

A new study from the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) shows that, out of the 16.3 million visits Canadians made to emergency rooms in 2024, nearly 8% ended with the patient simply walking out without receiving treatment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", Canada

GWYN MORGAN: Canada’s healthcare monopoly is killing us

Canadians are proud of their universal healthcare system. Politicians hold it up as proof of our compassion, while unions fight to preserve it, and judges unfailingly defend it. But pride and rhetoric can’t mask reality: Canada spends more on healthcare than almost any other country in the world and delivers some of the worst results. Our hospitals are overloaded, wait times are intolerable, and tens of thousands of patients die each year before receiving the treatment they need.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis"

Ontario couple whose teenage son died after 8-hour wait in ER calls for law reform

An Ontario family is calling on the provincial government to introduce legislation that would set maximum emergency room wait times for children after their teenage son died following an eight-hour wait for a doctor in a hospital last year.

GJ and Hazel van der Werken, of Burlington, Ont., said their 16-year-old son, Finlay, had a few days of mild illness and was suffering from migraines before his condition began to worsen. Hazel rushed him to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on Feb. 7, 2024, she said.

And who received treatment in advance of this young man?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", "Healthcare", Canada

Business, pleasure or surgery? Medical travel booms as more Canadians look for cheaper procedures abroad

When you picture yourself on summer vacation, are you on a beach? Or an operating table? For some travellers, the answer is a bit of both.

Call it a medical vacation. About 432,000 Canadians, faced with rising treatment costs at home, are expected to seek medical care abroad this year, 44 per cent more than two years earlier, according to the Medical Tourism Association. They travel for dental work, cosmetic surgeries, and fertility treatments, as well as more serious procedures like knee and hip replacements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", Canada

‘I had started saying goodbye’: Why some Canadians go abroad for medical care

Allyson Vandenberg of Toronto was rejected for back surgery before even stepping into a doctor’s office, at a point when her pain had become unbearable, she said.

“One doctor agreed to see me — with an eight-month wait — then rejected me before even entering the room,” she wrote in an email to CTVNews.ca. In severe pain, she began considering medical assistance in dying.

“I had started saying goodbye,” she said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"