Go ahead, call me crazy...
...but before we spend another red cent on "safe" injection sites... or handing out free crack pipe kits to junkies... let's fix problems that affect people who actually give a shit whether they live or die...
Unequal access to cancer drugs – a long-standing issue for patients and oncologists – was to be remedied with the creation of the Joint Oncology Drug Review, to which all provinces but Quebec belong. Despite JODR's formation in March, 2007, the funding of some cancer drugs remains unequal across the country.{More}
“Here in Canada, it's still a postal-code lottery for cancer drugs,” said Bill Hryniuk, past chairman of the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada.
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{And still more}
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Yet inexplicably folks still cling to the illusion that we have "Equal and Free" access to health care here in Canada.
The key to keeping this illusion in place is just don't EVER get seriously ill. If you do have such bad taste as to need these drugs, you are stuck between two options. One being: mortgaging your house, raiding your RRSP's, borrowing money from a bank, going bankrupt so you can LEAVE this fine country to get the drugs or procedure you need.
Two: Just accept a bureaucratic decision and lay down and die with out complaint like a good polite Canadian should.
Yup we are sooooo much more enlightened then those crass uncaring Americans aren't we?
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"grey lady says... Two: Just accept a bureaucratic decision and lay down and die without complaint like a good polite Canadian should."
but that is what canadians typically do, isn't it?
remember when ohip came out of your regular taxes? now premier mcslippery sends everyone an anuual bill.
how is that, in any way, shape or form... "free" healthcare?
and no dalton... i'm not saying it should be free... but you gotta stop blowin smoke up my ass about how you're making my life so much better...
"Granny can't get a new hip, but you could get a new DICK!"
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