Canadian Hip Replacements
I have a once-shattered hip now being held together by plates and screws. I'm told that I will eventually need at least one hip replacement.
Walter Williams, in the article I cited earlier, says that Canadian "hip-replacement patients often end up non-ambulatory while waiting an average of 20 weeks for the procedure, and that's after having waited 13 weeks just to see the specialist. The wait to get diagnostic scans followed by the wait for the radiologist to read them just might explain why Cleveland, Ohio, has become Canada's hip-replacement center."
So this aspect of socialized medicine strikes a personal chord with me.
Here's a comic strip that might be based on "a December 2003 story by Kerri Houston for the Frontiers of Freedom Institute titled 'Access Denied: Canada's Healthcare System Turns Patients into Victims'," [PDF] but is more likely based on the same Walter Williams article I've already pointed to.
Walter Williams, in the article I cited earlier, says that Canadian "hip-replacement patients often end up non-ambulatory while waiting an average of 20 weeks for the procedure, and that's after having waited 13 weeks just to see the specialist. The wait to get diagnostic scans followed by the wait for the radiologist to read them just might explain why Cleveland, Ohio, has become Canada's hip-replacement center."
So this aspect of socialized medicine strikes a personal chord with me.
Here's a comic strip that might be based on "a December 2003 story by Kerri Houston for the Frontiers of Freedom Institute titled 'Access Denied: Canada's Healthcare System Turns Patients into Victims'," [PDF] but is more likely based on the same Walter Williams article I've already pointed to.
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