Re: Torn??
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:48 am
What you got in response was somewhere around a 50/50 split of those who did and those who didn't. And they/we gave reasons for both. We all responded to your subject title, 'Torn??' Do I or don't I. The information that came out of your post is very informative for others I might add, who may be feeling the same way. We all have different reasons for every action we take in life. What another person does, for whatever reason, rarely affects those outside of the immediate family and freinds. You and your husband are not the only ones who will have to live with this decision, and if that's okay, great. No one will have a problem with it I'm sure.
As for Canadian healthcare, I've spoken with a goodly number of persons who have problems with the system in Canada. My mother for one. She asked me some months back how long it would take to get a non-emergency MRI performed and I said I didn't really know. She said up there it would be about a month, maybe a bit more. Well two weeks later I found out how long as I needed one on my cervical spine, and it was scheduled for 5 days later. I've spoken with others where a lumbar MRI for SI problems took 2 months to get done.
You know it is not the medical communities fault for this either. It is the government's hand in it that is the problem. My mother told me last year the BC Auto Insurance entity had really pissed her off with what they did. Why I asked. She said that during 2006 there were fewer repair and replacement claims for auto accidents, and they had a surplus of funds available after all was said and done. Something in the area of $20,000,000.00 +, and instead of putting it away for a year of high claims and costs, they decided to divvy it up between the employees across the province instead. Those in higher places got a bundle, and it trickled down from there. So I have little respect for government run providers. And strange as it is, I work here in the States for a State agency too, so I kinda know both ends of the issue. My work involves payments through a program that enable persons who are mentally and physically disabled to be either on their own or living with family. And more than once I've gone to bat for them and their families when head office becomes ignorant and cold when they think a service shouldn't be allowed. They don't talk to the mental health clients or their families directly, I do. I help in finding solutions for things like the inncontinent client who's pins in his hips are backing out and head office won't authorize a washer and dryer for his apt. He is in a wheelchair most of the time because of the pain and can't possibly bring his soiled bed linens nearly every day to the laundrymat. Plus the embarrassment of a grown man having to do this, where's the dignity in that. So I help in finding solutions for this sort of thing. It's part of my job, and unfortunately it tends to overlap into the rest of my life.
As for Canadian healthcare, I've spoken with a goodly number of persons who have problems with the system in Canada. My mother for one. She asked me some months back how long it would take to get a non-emergency MRI performed and I said I didn't really know. She said up there it would be about a month, maybe a bit more. Well two weeks later I found out how long as I needed one on my cervical spine, and it was scheduled for 5 days later. I've spoken with others where a lumbar MRI for SI problems took 2 months to get done.
You know it is not the medical communities fault for this either. It is the government's hand in it that is the problem. My mother told me last year the BC Auto Insurance entity had really pissed her off with what they did. Why I asked. She said that during 2006 there were fewer repair and replacement claims for auto accidents, and they had a surplus of funds available after all was said and done. Something in the area of $20,000,000.00 +, and instead of putting it away for a year of high claims and costs, they decided to divvy it up between the employees across the province instead. Those in higher places got a bundle, and it trickled down from there. So I have little respect for government run providers. And strange as it is, I work here in the States for a State agency too, so I kinda know both ends of the issue. My work involves payments through a program that enable persons who are mentally and physically disabled to be either on their own or living with family. And more than once I've gone to bat for them and their families when head office becomes ignorant and cold when they think a service shouldn't be allowed. They don't talk to the mental health clients or their families directly, I do. I help in finding solutions for things like the inncontinent client who's pins in his hips are backing out and head office won't authorize a washer and dryer for his apt. He is in a wheelchair most of the time because of the pain and can't possibly bring his soiled bed linens nearly every day to the laundrymat. Plus the embarrassment of a grown man having to do this, where's the dignity in that. So I help in finding solutions for this sort of thing. It's part of my job, and unfortunately it tends to overlap into the rest of my life.