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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (115940)	2/28/2008 11:10:20 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Yikes, looks the Canadian gov't is stiffing some of the victims: The federal and provincial governments were releasing details of a $1.1-billion package to compensate people who had contracted hepatitis C from transfusions of tainted blood. The major catch — you had to be infected between 1986 and 1990 to qualify. Canada wasn't using a test that might have screened for the virus between those years. The governments argued there was no test available to screen blood for the virus before 1986, so there was no way to protect the blood supply. [ Baloney. They could have ensured that the agency which ran its blood system didn't take blood from high-risk people. ] After 1990, the governments said, all possible precautions were in place. The offer came despite a recommendation by the report of the Krever Inquiry a year earlier, which called for compensation for anyone harmed by bad blood, regardless of when they were infected. .............. The federal government, provincial health ministries, pharmaceutical companies and people who guided the blood system when the tainted transfusions occurred could also be named if they were deemed responsible. The Inquiry wrapped up in December 1996. In July 1997, then Health Minister Allan Rock announced the Red Cross would not have a role in a new Canadian blood agency. After more than 50 years of running the country's blood system, the Red Cross would be reduced to recruiting blood donors. [ Get that, the Canadian had let the CRC run the country's blood system. Whether the CRC is called a NGO or not, when the gov't relies on it to run the entire blood system for the country, it is clearly a part of "the system". Of course, your concern is defending the good name of socialized medicine at all costs for idealogical reasons. If you have to mis-represent the facts of the situation to do it, then you do that. ] http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/taintedblood/