Federal politicians are not talking about healthcare, is the Canada Health Act to blame?
Healthcare Costs of War.
Ever wonder how much a country spends on healthcare as a result of going to war? It is not just the costs associated with the actual wartime period. Rather, they extend much longer beyond – and at an exponential rate that may surprise you. The folks at MBA Healthcare Management have put together an interesting infographic to highlight just how much the U.S. (which is already the world’s greatest healthcare spender by a …
Should patients be accountable for their own health (-care costs)?
Free healthcare. That is the shining star of our nation’s healthcare system. In any international discussion or comparison of our system, Canadians pride themselves on the fact that access to essential health services is not prohibited by an individual’s ability to pay. Taxes collected from those who are financially better off, are redistributed to cover healthcare costs of the whole community, regardless of how old, how poor, how unfortunate, or how sick someone …
Coffee Fund for a Road Trip – Lessons for Healthcare
Guest post by Shawn Mondoux. Suppose that you had worked your entire life and put away savings, small amounts from each paycheck that had gone into a fund that you were accumulating over 20 or more years of work. The goal of this money was to cover the cost of a dream trip with four of your closest, most intimate friends. The four of you had been pooling your money, together and in …
Blame-shifting ER Wait Times onto Patients.
It recently came to my attention that the UK has been deploying a public health message with regards to ER wait times; more specifically, it looks like a public education campaign aimed at redirecting “inappropriate” visits away from emergency rooms. The premise is that many minor and non-life-threatening conditions can be (and should be) treated outside the ER, and that the onus is on the patients themselves to basically triage their own ailments. …
The case for Healthcare Workers to get mandatory flu shots.
It is a very interesting social phenomenon how some healthcare workers have come to put up such an emotionally charged and adamant fight against getting vaccinated. This issue reached a head with the recent battle in British Columbia over trying to make it mandatory for frontline nurses to get the flu shot. I call this a “social phenomenon” because the surprising resistance is exponentially spurred by forces beyond any solid scientific evidence, despite …