Reply #92: Pure propaganda to discredit Canadian healthcare. FACT: The procedure was developed in Canada. [View All]

[snagglepuss]

This is part of a concerted effort to derail Canada's public health care by those who want Canadian healthcare opened to to private healthcare providers. The so-called better procedure was developed by Canadian doctors and is available in Canada.



"Maybe you’re guessing now that the premier decided to travel to the famous hospital where one of the physicians who authored the article fixes hearts. That would make sense. But here’s the funny thing: the authors are Dr. Thierry Mesana of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Dr. Subodh Verma of St. Michael’s Hospital at University of Toronto.

Apparently Ottawa and Toronto have somehow managed to emerge as leading centres for both the theory and practice of heart surgery—in particular, it seems, the operation Williams needed—despite the horrors of socialized medicine.

In case this leaves you fearing that the the premier might have received substandard care in the U.S., please don’t worry. I understand they have excellent physicians there. And that New England Journal of Medicine article is specifically meant to spread the word of the latest surgical techniques everywhere."



http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/22/heres-hoping-danny-w... /