Free stuff is grand, if you don’t die waiting for it…

Today, SecondStreet.org released government data showing an additional 15,474 patients in Canada died in 2023-24 before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. However, that number is incomplete, as several governments provide either partial data, or simply do not track the problem.

Key Findings

  • At least 15,474 patients died in Canada while waiting for surgeries or diagnostic scans. This figure does not include Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia only provided data on patients who died while waiting for surgeries – not diagnostic scans.
  • If one extrapolates the data provided across provinces and health regions that did not provide data, an estimated 28,077 patients died last year on health care waiting lists.
  • While some response data is vague, SecondStreet.org observed cases where patients died after waiting anywhere from less than a week for treatment to more than 14 years.
  • New data from Ontario Health suggests 378 patients died while waiting for cardiac surgery or a cardiac procedure.
  • Since April 2018, SecondStreet.org has identified a staggering 74,677 cases where Canadians died while waiting for care.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/2018-over-75000-canadians-died-waiting-health-care

 

On the flip side, how many US citizens were forced to use most or all of their life savings to pay for the exhorbitant cost of medical operations in the US? A question for another time perhaps………