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Post by peeves on Oct 6, 2021 13:33:01 GMT -5
Overview of Canada Capital Ottawa Region North America GDP Per Capita, PPP $50,661 GDP $1.74 trillion Population 37,593,384 Area 9,984,670 SQ.KM Canada takes up about two-fifths of the North American continent, making it the second-largest country in the world after Russia. The country is sparsely populated, with most of its residents living within 125 miles of its border with the United States. Canada’s expansive wilderness to the north plays a large role in Canadian identity, as does the country’s reputation of welcoming immigrants. More on Canada Trudeau Wins a 'Status Quo' Election Countries That Accept the Most Migrants Survey: Children Face Uncertainty Although the Norse briefly settled in Canada during the 10th century, European exploration accelerated in the 1500s. France and Britain angled for control over the region, with the British cementing their dominance in the year 1763. The country was a collection of British colonies until it became a self-governing dominion in 1867. Canadians pride themselves in encouraging all of their citizens to honor their own cultures. In 1971, Canada adopted a national policy of multiculturalism, which celebrates the country’s diversity. At the same time, Canada faces national challenges related to the concerns of indigenous people and those in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec. While constitutional guarantees allow the province wide-ranging cultural and linguistic autonomy, movements for complete independence come in waves. The list of accomplished and eclectic Canadian writers and artists is long. Joni Mitchell, Avril Lavigne and Drake are just a few of the Canadians who have made an impression on modern music. Technically, Canada is a constitutional monarchy with the U.K. monarch as the head of state. The royal leader is represented locally by a largely ceremonial governor-general appointed by the Canadian prime minister. The government follows the British style of parliamentary democracy. The capital, Ottawa, is located in the province of Ontario. Canada is a high-tech industrial society with a high standard of living. Trade agreements in the 1980s and 1990s dramatically bolstered trade with the U.S., and now the two counties are each other's largest trading partner. While the service sector is Canada’s biggest economic driver, the country is a significant exporter of energy, food and minerals. Canada ranks third in the world in proven oil reserves and is the world’s fourth-largest oil producer. Canada is a member of the United Nations, through which it has participated in many peacekeeping missions. It is also a member of NATO and the Commonwealth of Nations. Canada Rankings |
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Post by peeves on Oct 6, 2021 13:35:57 GMT -5
Attributes 100.0 A good job market 7.7 Affordable 99.9 Economically stable 99.0 Family-friendly 61.6 Income equality 100.0 Politically stable
96.7 Safe 97.8 Well-developed public education system 95.9 Well-developed public health system   If Canada's "well -developed",  I say IN A PIGS EAR! |
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Post by campy on Oct 7, 2021 3:33:22 GMT -5
The point is, Peeves. The rest of the world doesn't think like you do when it comes to Canada.
That's obvious.
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Post by peeves on Oct 7, 2021 8:34:01 GMT -5
The point is, Peeves. The rest of the world doesn't think like you do when it comes to Canada. That's obvious. The point is -----atop your cranium. The posts I made re Canada were factual and documented statistics on-----CANADA'S poor health care. You cannot, did not,, will not address facts, and are usually only able to opine in reply with failed attempts at insulting me. (that's called ad hominem* response.) So in kind, you are a block head a hard head, a stubborn, unmovable person that strays from facts, obfuscates often with no source or reference and is a general waste of time except to provide me with laughs and opportunities to post factual accounts in reply to your hyperbole...
*adjective
Attacking a person's character or motivations rather than a position or argument.Appealing to the emotions rather than to logic or reason.
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Post by campy on Oct 7, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -5
You have an opinion to which you are entitled.
It doesn't mean that others have to accept it or agree with you.
I have had no problems at all with my health care. I don't think it's abysmal like you do.
When I first joined another forum to which you were a member, I was advised by the moderator to put you on ignore. Now I know why.
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Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2021 19:00:53 GMT -5
Canada's health care is not rated very high, IMO it sucks for the most part. Not because we have lousy doctors or anything like that but we are rationed and are put on unacceptable long wait lists (before Covid) I had a 15 month wait to talk to a back specialist, that isn't health care. www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-s-health-system-ranked-second-last-among-11-countries-report-1.5533045TORONTO -- A new report has ranked Canada's health system second last, ahead of the United States, among high-income countries.
The report, released on Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund, ranked 11 high-income countries on key health-system measures, including equity, access to care, affordability, health-care outcomes, and administrative efficiency.
The report found that the top-performing health systems overall are in Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia, while Switzerland, Canada and the U.S. were the countries with the worst health-care systems, respectively.
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Post by peeves on Oct 8, 2021 9:41:27 GMT -5
You have an opinion to which you are entitled. It doesn't mean that others have to accept it or agree with you. I have had no problems at all with my health care. I don't think it's abysmal like you do. When I first joined another forum to which you were a member, I was advised by the moderator to put you on ignore. Now I know why.
There again you resort to personal attack.
It is past time where I will accept your predilection/ prepossession to avoid addressing any posted facts by twisting your reply to an opinion of the poster. If you cannot grow up and opine on the post, NOT on the poster, then you're obfuscating. If you can't refute the facts, you are not addressing the subject post. If you can't give a source for your post it is an opinion. If you make things up, it's trolling or hyperbole or a lie.
Now I couldn't care less if you whined about me and were advised to put me on ignore because can't refute my (usually) factual posts or opinions. I only reply to your inane twisted opinions that avoid the subject matter for fun and an opportunity for another posted statement. Your ad hominem choice of reply adds naught to the subject.. Now since it makes me grin to address your perception above, to wit, "You have an opinion to which you are entitled.
It doesn't mean that others have to accept it or agree with you.
I have had no problems at all with my health care. I don't think it's abysmal like you do."
I stated: A) my personal opinion based on family experience over several ER visits ---then. B) I gave links and facts and references to Canada's poor Health Care in comparison to other countries. I provided abysmal wait times for ER,( 4-6 hours),and for specialist appointments including one of 4 + months for MY ear-nose appointment.
In reply you opined that "I was negative". You did not provide even one factual challenge to those posted facts with anything but an obfuscated opinion and a focus on me.
So, in summing up. It is the quite apparent that the general opinion based on factual stats that Canada's Health Care is sub par.
"Waiting Your Turn indicates that, overall, waiting times for medically necessary treatment have increased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 20.9 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 19.8 weeks reported in 2018. This year’s wait time is just shy of the longest wait time recorded in this survey’s history (21.2 weeks in 2017) and is 124% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.
There is a great deal of variation in the total waiting time faced by patients across the provinces. Ontario reports the shortest total wait—16.0 weeks—while Prince Edward Island reports the longest—49.3 weeks. There is also a great deal of variation among specialties. Patients wait longest between a GP referral and orthopaedic surgery (39.1 weeks), while those waiting for medical oncology begin treatment in 4.4 weeks.
The total wait time that patients face can be examined in two consecutive segments.
From referral by a general practitioner to consultation with a specialist. The waiting time in this segment increased from 8.7 weeks in 2018 to 10.1 weeks in 2019. This wait time is 173% longer than in 1993, when it was 3.7 weeks. The shortest waits for specialist consultations are in Quebec (7.2 weeks) while the longest occur in Prince Edward Island (28.8 weeks"
Wait times in the ER Canada.
"A new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows one out of three Canadians reported waiting four hours or more the last time they went to the emergency department.
In fact, Canada has ranked the worst out of 11 industrialized countries for basic health care services like waiting to see a family doctor, waiting to see a specialist or waiting for an elective surgery according to a recent survey conducted by The Commonwealth Fund."
(expecting a intelligent response likely one consisting of "that's your negative opinion."
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Post by windy on Oct 8, 2021 19:01:28 GMT -5
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Post by peeves on Oct 9, 2021 7:57:06 GMT -5
Some line up in clinics or wait hours in the ER. Some are beginning to think that's the norm and acceptable. Some Canadians are quite simply sheep that will ignore, and roll over and take what they get. Compared to other industrialized countries Canada's Health Care sucks and the facts/stats seem accurate to me.
If anyone can prove differently I'd love to hear about it.
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Post by campy on Oct 9, 2021 10:04:45 GMT -5
All I have is my personal experience. I'm 88 year of age so I can't knock the health care Ì received. Emergency rooms are just that. If there's a lineup and someone is ahead of you that's what emergencies create.
If you walk in with a chip on your shoulder, don't expect favors.
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Post by windy on Oct 9, 2021 11:01:59 GMT -5
The issue for emergency rooms is that more and more people are using them because they can't find a regular doctor. There isn't a doctor or clinic in our area that is taking new patients, so if you don't have a regular doctor and need a doctor to check some minor ailment, you have to go to the emergency room. Emergency room wait times are high in just about every hospital across the country, you can check Ontario stats here. www.hqontario.ca/system-performance/time-spent-in-emergency-departments . People are dying every day due to Covid collateral damage, most facilities, ICUs, and beds are being taken up by people who refused to be vaccinated and are now sick. Elective surgeries and many critical procedures are being cancelled, the system is in overload and we kowtow to the selfish minority. There should be designated hospitals for Covid patients, and some hospitals reserved for everyday care and surgeries, let the willingly unvaccinated suffer the fate of their own doing. |
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Post by peeves on Oct 9, 2021 13:06:30 GMT -5
All I have is my personal experience. I'm 88 year of age so I can't knock the health care Ì received. Emergency rooms are just that. If there's a lineup and someone is ahead of you that's what emergencies create. If you walk in with a chip on your shoulder, don't expect favors. Your personal experience DOES NOT change NOR does it address, the stats or facts I've presented in the subject post. Nor do you challenge,refute or show they are non factual. In other words, I gave my personal 89 year old trauma and lack of medical attention in the ER and you gave yours.
However, I provided links to studies that referenced ACTUAL facts. You ignored them and continued your childish attention to disparaging me as being negative. etc.
NOWHERE did I see you confront,deny,refute or address the subject, which IS NOT ME, but OUR poor HEALTH CARE IN COMPARISON TO OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU CANT THEN blow your  personal experience out your ear. Speak to the stats and studies!!! 
If you're moved in by ambulance from a stretcher/gurney,broken wrist,torn knee head and elbow bleeding, and near 90 years old, one might expect that over some three hours you'd be offered a pain killer and a band aid. I wasn't and was never in any way,means or manner in any condition to have a conversation , even had the opportunity availed me..
As for a "chip on the shoulder" , I've never seen anyone come into the ER in other than pain and not a chip, but possibly a broken shoulder. Only a numb nuts would suggest such a scenario as a possibility for poor MEDICAL treatment.
What creates a potentially 4-6 hour wait for even seeing a doctor is the clear evidence that which I have factually presented, "Wait times in the ER Canada.
"A new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows one out of three Canadians reported waiting four hours or more the last time they went to the emergency department.
In fact, Canada has ranked the worst out of 11 industrialized countries for basic health care services".
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Post by peeves on Oct 9, 2021 13:24:16 GMT -5
The issue for emergency rooms is that more and more people are using them because they can't find a regular doctor. There isn't a doctor or clinic in our area that is taking new patients, so if you don't have a regular doctor and need a doctor to check some minor ailment, you have to go to the emergency room. Emergency room wait times are high in just about every hospital across the country, you can check Ontario stats here. www.hqontario.ca/system-performance/time-spent-in-emergency-departments . People are dying every day due to Covid collateral damage, most facilities, ICUs, and beds are being taken up by people who refused to be vaccinated and are now sick. Elective surgeries and many critical procedures are being cancelled, the system is in overload and we kowtow to the selfish minority. There should be designated hospitals for Covid patients, and some hospitals reserved for everyday care and surgeries, let the willingly unvaccinated suffer the fate of their own doing. About 25 + years ago I waited in the old St. Catharines hospital for over 4 hours before seeing a doctor. The wait time for any there just before or after my arrival by ambulance was about the same. In my then condition I wasn't particularly keeping track, but things went very slowly indeed.. and that was 2 decades ago. About 15 years ago my wife spent an hour lying on an ambulance gurney outside the ER rooms before she was admitted, then another 2 hours+ before she saw a doctor. The ambulance and 2 attending paramedics can't leave until the ER accepts the patient so they were tied up as well. My point is that this is a decades old problem and seems to include the Niagara's 4 hospitals. I cannot speak to other situs.
I once went to a London Ontario specialist for an appointment, a good drive from Niagara. We waited 3 hours past my appointment to get to see the Doctor. The desk attendant explained that they had"double booked". Hardly professional, but seemingly the way of things.. ASIDE; I got a parking ticket .
Your suggested designation of hospitals has too much common sense to be implemented by our office overloaded establishment, but it's a good suggestion given that the majority of those tying up hospitals are the noxious UN-vaccinated scoffing idiots.
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Post by peeves on Oct 9, 2021 15:03:31 GMT -5
Initial post referencing Canada's Health Care
"Consider, for instance, that of the 28 industrialized countries with universal health care, Canada spends the second highest (adjusted for age) as a share of the economy.
But on measure after measure of performance, Canada ranks in the middle or bottom of comparable countries. For example, on the number of doctors per 1,000 residents, Canada ranks 26th of 28 countries, and 25th out of 26 on the number of acute care beds. On key indicators of wait times, Canada is consistently the lowest-ranked among comparable countries with universal health care."
Our (seniors), drugs are pretty cheap with prescriptions filled for about $4 once you qualify. There's also an annual $ 100 fee to pay and you can use costs for tax purposes. That saves us tons of money.
There is a need for reform with more choices made available.
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Post by campy on Oct 9, 2021 19:11:33 GMT -5
Quality of Life Rank: 1
Best Countries Overall Rank: 1
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If Canada's "well -developed", 
I say IN A PIGS EAR! 
personal experience out your ear. Speak to the stats and studies!!! 