Canadians who have died thousands of people died while waiting for “free” health care

According to a new report from Saskachuwan -based Think Tank SecondStreet.org, at least 15,000 Canadians died in a year while waiting for “free” government health care.

In a press release on January 15, Harrison Fleming, the legislation and policy director of SecondStreet.org, stated:

Canadians pay very high taxes, but our healthcare systems have failed compared to the universal system with better performance in Europe. I realized that thousands of Canadians from all over the country were on the standby list (in some cases for several years), and there are too many people to die tragic before being treated or diagnosed.

Waiting time

SecondStreet.org has submitted information on information to various state medical institutions in search of data about patients who died while waiting for treatment between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024. I did.

From the answer received, the group was able to determine that at least 15,474 patients died in Canada while waiting for surgery and diagnostic scanning.

However, the count is based on data from “only 12 health organizations (representing 62 % of the population)”, and some of them died while waiting for surgery. Only provided data indicating patients indicating the patient who died while waiting for the diagnostic scan. 。 SECONDSTREET.ORG, inserting from available data, estimated that 28,077 patients had died of government health acoustic.

In Ontario, 378 patients died while waiting for heart surgery. Another patient died in 2023 after waiting for orthopedic surgery for 14 years. Another person was told in 2010 that he needed a CT scan. The patient died in 13, died five years later, but was still waiting for a scan. According to the report, “There are hundreds of other cases that have been waiting for more than 18 months since the death of the patient or not being diagnosed in Ontario alone.”

According to the Canadian Statistics Bureau, 326,571 Canadians died in 2023. Therefore, the estimated 28,077 people passed while the socialist medical system accounted for about 8.5 % of all deaths.

Euthanasian connection

In addition, the euthanasia prevented union was observed.

The number of deaths is overwhelming when the number of Canadians who have died in a treatment list is combined with euthanasian deaths.

The Ministry of Health in Canada reported in 2023 that 15,343 Canadians chose to kill with suicide Assisted.

However, the euthanasia Federation said, “Some of the deaths of euthanasian deaths are related to Canadians who” choose “to die from euthanasia because they gave up in line for treatment.” 。 The group emphasized the case of a 52 -year -old Colombian who decided to euthanize in 2023 after spending 10 weeks at a hospital waiting for cancer treatment.

Doctor's statistics

SecondStreet.org has been editing statistics on the death of a health care listing list since 2018. In the meantime, the group stated that “I have identified the tremendous 74,677 cases where the Canadians died while waiting for care.”

Not all of those patients have not died because they have not yet received life care. Some were simply waiting for treatment such as hip replacement and cataract surgery. Absolutely not essential, such treatments have improved the quality of life on the last day, and probably have made their life longer by maintaining mobile.

However, in many cases, authorities simply do not track such things, so it is impossible to judge whether medical delay has caused the patient's death directly. Some officials have explicitly told SecondStreet.org that they have not intentionally tracked such data. “SecondStreet.org understands that the government will track this data by chance through the waiting list system software. It does not intentionally track the problem and identify the area that requires improvement. “Read the report.

Colin Craig, President SecondStreet.org:

If a restaurant fails to test a health test, the government may share the news publicly and sometimes notify the facility to see it. However, when nearly 75,000 Canadians have died before receiving the necessary care, the government will actively reveal anything. Perhaps it was time to hold yourself on the same criterion that the government has everyone else.

In fact, this report is “carefully tracks how many patients die every year because the state government takes too long to provide treatment, taking into account the government's delegation to government companies. You can expect it to be disclosed rationally. ” However, whether it is a typical bureaucratic inefficient, even if it is out of the desire to not clarify their failures, the Canadian medical institution is not.

The report also states that the numbers from 2023 to 24 may be lacking.

Capitalism treatment

Socialized healthcare advocates argue that more money will solve these issues, of course. In anticipation of this, SecondStreet.org wrote that “health spending in Canada is only at a high level”, and “more than twice the inflation rate in the past 30 years.” In fact, “Canada is one of the highest spending in the world of healthcare. It is clear that money alone cannot solve this medical crisis. “

SecondStreet.org recommends some reforms that will definitely improve the problem rather than throwing them dollars, such as partnership with non -governmental clinics and ensuring health care at private clinics. Masu. However, the only reform that solves the Canadian healthcare system forever is to separate medical care and state. This is a prescription to cure healthcare disease in the United States.