What's The Difference Between A Canadian Programmer

[Schneibster]

and an idiot?
A: Nothing

Q: What's the difference between a Canadian healthcare website and hell?
A: Nothing

[choff]

Q:What's the difference between Canadian healthcare and American healthcare.

A:It costs pprox. 6.4% GDP less.

....and it just plain works, I don't know of anybody on my side of the border who complains about death panels, lost coverage, or even waiting lists, and I've know lots of old people.

[Schneibster]

Hey, you're the guys who hosed it up, don't tell me how good yours works you can stuff that up your wahoo. Fix mine.

[choff]

With 20,000 pages of regulations the system is working precisely according to spec, namely, a blanket disqualification exists for any and every applicant. The only bug fixes required are because a handful of people actually have succeeded in signing up when such an event should not be possible.

[hanelyp]

Choff, a good joke with a strong grain of truth.

[JLawson]

With 20,000 pages of regulations the system is working precisely according to spec, namely, a blanket disqualification exists for any and every applicant. The only bug fixes required are because a handful of people actually have succeeded in signing up when such an event should not be possible.

There are bureaucrats who look at the regulations with intent to get as many people helped as possible.

There are bureaucrats who look at the regulations with the intent to help as few people as possible.

The latter far outnumber the former.

[choff]

It's probably no joke, I've lived under Socialist governments in my province and it's just like watching an old VHS from the 1970's. With that many regs being written you have dozens and perhaps hundreds of people drafting them who have no idea how their sections affects the others. Collectively they contradict each other or eradicate all coverage via a 1000 minor disqualifications. Compound that with the translation of political doubletalk into cold hard computer code and a system crash is assured.

Even if it doesn't crash, if you take any individual case and go through the the whole list of regs I can assure you will find some combination to disqualify that person completely.

K.I.S.S.

[Stubby]

Q:What's the difference between Canadian healthcare and American healthcare.

A:It costs pprox. 6.4% GDP less.

....and it just plain works, I don't know of anybody on my side of the border who complains about death panels, lost coverage, or even waiting lists, and I've know lots of old people.

I will complain about waiting lists or wait times in ER. We are understaffed.

[Diogenes]

I will complain about waiting lists or wait times in ER. We are understaffed.

There are at least four Canadian Doctors down here now of which I am aware, and this is not a particularly desirable market for Doctors. I can only imagine how much stronger is the lure to the larger Cities where their services can be far more lucrative.


The wonder is not that you are understaffed, the wonder is that you have any left at all. Must be a form of Patriotism or something.



Canadians wait 19 weeks for surgery: Report

Canadians are waiting about 19 weeks for surgery, a new study has found.

The median wait time jumped up in 2011, from 18.2 weeks in 2010, the Fraser Institute said Monday. This year's median wait time also exceeds the previous all-time high of 18.3 weeks in 2007.

"Canadians are being forced to wait almost 4 and a half months, on average, to receive surgical care, prolonging the pain and suffering patients and their families are forced to endure," Mark Rovere, Fraser Institute associate director of health policy research and co-author of the report, said in a release. "Despite significant increases in government health spending, Canadians are still waiting too long to access medically necessary treatment."

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/12/12/ca ... ery-report


Supply/Demand? How does it work?