Comparing ER wait times
tagged Boston, Canada, health care, Michael Moore, Ottawa and Sicko
Sigmund, Carl, and Alfred have a short post up
with the actual comparison, and while I’m sure there’s probably room for variance, I have to say that overall the results don’t surprise: wait times in Ottawa average about 20 hours, whereas wait times in Boston average about 1 hour.
I never understood what Michael Moore was getting at in Sicko. Not that I expect the man to turn in anything other than a distorted, misleading account of the subject he is covering, of course…but still. Dude totally glossed over several real problems that exist and persist in Canada’s system today.
Health care would have worked so much better in this country had it been able to stick to its original mandate: providing care for the chronically ill and accidentally injured. But as society got more and more lazy, and as Canadians took less and less interest in being active participants in their own health (see: obesity), it was inevitable that the system would become overloaded.
