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If so you may want to check out the link below.


http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healt...ml#britain


Since Obama is set on bringing Universal Health Care to us, check out the excerpts below from the site.

"VANCOUVER—In constant pain and facing a wait of 18 months to two years for hip replacement surgery, Pamela and Cliff Jansen took their health care into their own hands.

[I]The North Vancouver couple, both suffering from osteoarthritis, decided last fall to go to Belgium for their operations, renegotiating their mortgage to pay the $35,000 tab.

Today, the Jansens consider it the best investment they've ever made. Each has full range of motion and flexibility and they resumed recreational ice dancing months ago."

"It's a question Dr. Ken Hughes has heard more often in the past few years. About 9,000 people in B.C. are now waiting for knee and hip replacements and the total is increasing by 10 per cent annually. But there's funding for just 6,000, meaning an 18-month wait.

Those figures will get worse unless funding is increased or patients are allowed to participate in what Hughes, president of the B.C. Orthopedic Association, calls "queue-sharing."

"Susan Warner swallows addictive painkillers every day to ease the crippling pain she endures waiting for knee-replacement surgery.

One of her knees gave out in October and the Calgary woman has been waiting for the surgery since. However, Warner, 51, is lost in a lineup for the operation at the Rockyview General Hospital that she says could last 18 months.
"It's inhuman. The quality of my life is horrible and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it," she said Tuesday.
Waiting lists are crippling Canada's health-care system and frustrating patients and doctors alike. The Canadian Medical Association released a 10-point prescription on Tuesday that targets waiting lists for surgery and diagnostic procedures like MRIs and CT scans.
It proposes setting benchmark waiting times for surgery, hiring more health professionals, and expanding options for Canadians to get treatment in other jurisdictions."

"There are about 25,000 Calgarians waiting for surgery or scans at the city's four major hospitals. And the Calgary Health Region estimates waiting times for surgery are growing at an astronomical rate of 12 to 18 per cent every year.
Alberta Health's website says waiting times in Calgary are as follows:
- 62 weeks for a hip replacement at Peter Lougheed Centre;
- 62 weeks for general surgery at Rocky- view General Hospital;
- 30 weeks for MRI scans at Foothills Medical Centre;
- 54 weeks for knee replacement surgery at Rockyview General Hospital;
- 11 weeks for cardiac surgery at Foothills Medical Centre.
For Warner, the wait has come with a heavy price. She says she has become addicted to painkillers that are a daily staple to help her hobble through her workday."

Get in line . . .
Waiting periods for surgical procedures at Calgary hospitals:
Hips, knees, bones, joints and muscles: 20 to 62 weeks
MRI scans: 17 to 31 weeks
General surgery (removal of gall bladder, hernia, lumps, cysts, varicose veins): 23 to 62 weeks
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As long as our liberal friends don't have to pay for it, they're for it