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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (163)	1/15/2005 9:10:38 PM
From: fresc	Respond to of 42652

<<It leaves out the part about inadequate facilities. Long lines. Huge delays. The fact that without US profit motive medical R&D here would suffer dramatically.>> Have been to CANADA! NO! View of a American AUTHER! Gotta Love your Lobbyists :) You are the only Country that pays those outrageous prices! You keep believing that money for research will dry up with the lowering prescription drugs. Who is naive! Significantly more diagnostic tests are being done than just a few years ago. Compared to September 1999, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority reports: 26% more CT Scans were performed in November 2003; 41% more MRI exams were performed in November 2003; 52% more Bone Density exams were performed in November 2003; 18% more Stress MIBI exams were performed in November 2003. This year, funding is being added for 14,000 more ultrasound exams in Winnipeg. More than $5 million has been invested in new ultrasound equipment across Manitoba over the past 4 years. The number of Manitobans waiting for elective cardiac surgery has been reduced by more than 30% since 1999, when wait list statistics were first compiled. The wait time for life-saving cancer radiation therapy has been cut in half since 1999. This has ended the need to send Manitoba cancer patients to the United States for radiation therapy. 11 new and replacement CT scanners have been installed across Manitoba over the past 4 years, many of them in rural and northern Manitoba locations that have never had a CT scanner before. Each new CT scanner outside Winnipeg will help keep about 2,600 patients off wait lists in Winnipeg. In 2004, two new MRI machines will become operational, including one in Brandon - the first ever MRI machine outside Winnipeg. Reducing wait times requires more than funding and equipment – it also requires trained health care professionals – doctors, nurses, technologists and others. Over the past 4 years, health care training in Manitoba has been expanded by more than 500 training spaces. This expansion includes new training spaces for lab, x-ray and ultrasound technologists. source: Gov. of Manitoba