The other day I wrote about the new head of the Canadian Medical Association declaring that Canada’s health care system is in super deep yogurt. Today there comes this about cutting surgeries in Canada due to lack of funds:

VANCOUVER — Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.

Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million.

“This hasn’t been announced by the health authority … but these cuts are coming,” Dix said, citing figures gleaned from a leaked executive summary of “proposed VCH surgical reductions.”

The health authority confirmed the document is genuine, but said it represents ideas only.

“It is a planning document. It has not been approved or implemented,” said spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo.

Dr. Brian Brodie, president of the BC Medical Association, called the proposed surgical cuts “a nightmare.”

All I can think to write is: Is This What The Democrats Want To Bequeath To US?

It’s not very out in the open yet, but there is real concern that Social Security is going to be in deficit in two years. If they have to start cutting there, how will a government health care system ever manage to provide the care that is being promised by the President and this Democratic controlled congress? The answer — No way in Hell! Nope! Nada! It’ll be rationing baby, no matter what they tell you in those town hall meetings.

There may not actually be any “death panels” or outright “denial” of care — but simply postponing services like surgery, as is being discussed in Canada, easily can result in the same effect.

Let’s fix what’s not so great about the system that we have now, not scrap it and start all over from scratch.

On Obamacare? Just say NO!

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