universal access?
really? that's what they're calling it, here. well ... FUCK ... there are certainly some deluded people living in this country, then, aren't there? we, here, in the great white north, are always shooting our mouthes off about our great system of universally accessible health care. i'm sitting here, thinking, no one really has access to anything, because the system has no capacity to enable anyone access to anything in a timely manner.
need a lifesaving MRI for diagnostic purposes? huh! good look. well, you may be able to jump the queue if you have some ca$h in your pocket. have a suspicious lump? need a biopsy? or chemo? good luck ... you may be waiting awhile. but ... if you are a 90-something yr old, demented and disabled resident of a nursing home, who has taken a fall ... then of course you can have the quickest access to the OR, despite the fact that you have not walked in years, that you are absolutely NOT a surgical candidate, and that there is little likelihood you will survive the surgery. this makes perfect sense, doesn't it? that the greatest bulk of health care resources go toward those most futile of causes? don't get all outraged about the fact that i've said something the rest of you may not be able to bring yourselves to think of. it's just the truth - as i see it.
okay ... so this is why the average canadian income earner pays 40% of his/her salary to taxes? for this ... universally inaccessible system, in which everything - especially the quality of health care - gets reduced to the lowest - no the worse - common denominator? lol that's pretty fucking funny.
all my life i have heard this ... this BS about how universal access is a defining and great canadian characteristic. what a load of crap. really, the fact of the matter is that this ... myth of universal access that we cling to is merely another indication of how mediocre and pathetic canada is. we have a bunch of overpayed, underworked, complacent and arrogant civil servants that run the country ... we all know how corrupt they all are, thanks to the Gomery thing.
i'm fed up ... of paying for something i never get. of hearing about how privatization will erode the 'canadian way of life' ...! maybe that would be a good thing ... the canadian way seems to be accept mediocrity to keep the peace. don't rock the boat ... we don't really want to know what isn't working.
well ... i'm here to tell you all FUCK THIS BULL SHIT. I THINK I AM OUTTA HERE! I just wonder -- why didn't i think of this sooner?
need a lifesaving MRI for diagnostic purposes? huh! good look. well, you may be able to jump the queue if you have some ca$h in your pocket. have a suspicious lump? need a biopsy? or chemo? good luck ... you may be waiting awhile. but ... if you are a 90-something yr old, demented and disabled resident of a nursing home, who has taken a fall ... then of course you can have the quickest access to the OR, despite the fact that you have not walked in years, that you are absolutely NOT a surgical candidate, and that there is little likelihood you will survive the surgery. this makes perfect sense, doesn't it? that the greatest bulk of health care resources go toward those most futile of causes? don't get all outraged about the fact that i've said something the rest of you may not be able to bring yourselves to think of. it's just the truth - as i see it.
okay ... so this is why the average canadian income earner pays 40% of his/her salary to taxes? for this ... universally inaccessible system, in which everything - especially the quality of health care - gets reduced to the lowest - no the worse - common denominator? lol that's pretty fucking funny.
all my life i have heard this ... this BS about how universal access is a defining and great canadian characteristic. what a load of crap. really, the fact of the matter is that this ... myth of universal access that we cling to is merely another indication of how mediocre and pathetic canada is. we have a bunch of overpayed, underworked, complacent and arrogant civil servants that run the country ... we all know how corrupt they all are, thanks to the Gomery thing.
i'm fed up ... of paying for something i never get. of hearing about how privatization will erode the 'canadian way of life' ...! maybe that would be a good thing ... the canadian way seems to be accept mediocrity to keep the peace. don't rock the boat ... we don't really want to know what isn't working.
well ... i'm here to tell you all FUCK THIS BULL SHIT. I THINK I AM OUTTA HERE! I just wonder -- why didn't i think of this sooner?
