The Growing ‘Loopholes’ Allowing Private Care in Canada’s Staunchly Universal System
It is true. Wait a year for an MRI in the public system or you have at least two local choices for one within a week or so in Calgary, but the costs I am told can be from $300 to 730.
How can this be a bad thing? Unions, plus bureaucratic empire building and featherbedding , and incursions by Big Pharma, have immobilzed and de-incentivized the public sytem to where it is likely killing as many as it saves, and making life miserable for people on waiting lists. .
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/analysis-the-loopholes-that-allow-private-health-care-in-canada-5682783?utm_source=left-sharing-widget-v1&utm_medium=copyLink
UN Climate Summit blocks Rebel News — again
Sheila Gunn Reid discusses how the United Nations refused to allow Rebel News into its climate change conference in Brazil despite an email claiming Rebel News was accredited.
The United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil, is underway — and, in true UN fashion, it took all of ten minutes for the hypocrisy to hit us in the face.
For the first time in nine years, Rebel News was officially accredited to enter the conference grounds. We got the approval emails. We got our work visas. We flew half way around the world. We went to pick up our badges. Then the bureaucrats did what UN bureaucrats always do when a climate heretic gets too close: they found a problem.
Suddenly, our accreditation “didn’t allow” us inside the main venue — the pavilions, media rooms, and meeting halls packed with activists, diplomats, and 55,000 carbon-burning delegates who flew halfway around the world to lecture ordinary people about their energy use.
But somehow, we were ...
