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Friends of Medicare despise patients; demand ideology
Filed Under: Opinion by SiteEditor — Leave a commentSeptember 3, 2010
A National Post article today – “Let the rich pay to jump health-care queue: MD” – reports on a recommendation from incoming president of the Calgary and Area Physician’s Association, Dr. Lloyd Maybaum, to allow wealthy Albertans to pay for their own health care, though at above-market prices.

All non-comatose Canadians know that health care waiting lists are inexcusably high, leaving many Canadians without genuine health care solutions. Dr. Maybaum suggests that his strategy would funnel more money into the system to help everyone who can’t, or won’t, pay directly for their own health care.

In response, fanatic David Eggen of Friends of Medicare demands ideological, or religious, purity in terms of support for the inefficient, morally bankrupt, massively expensive government system status quo. He’s not interested in patients; he’s protecting his god. The Post reports: “Mr. Eggen contended Dr. Maybaum’s proposal undermines the nature of the public system: helping patients based on their medical needs, not their bank accounts.”

The Post also quotes Mr. Eggen saying, “Queue jumping doesn’t build capacity within a health system. It simply shifts capacity over to the people who come up with the most money.” The kind of Google search a 5-year-old could do would show how absurd Mr. Eggen’s comment is. It is well-known to people who read that a whole variety of medical systems exist in Europe that are based on heavy state-management, but which are much more flexible than our system, yet with far superior outcomes for patients.

Mr. Eggen is incompetent. He and his ilk are ideological fanatics who, at the end of the day, don’t care one wit about real human patients. Two articles have crossed our desk in the past couple of days about U.S. President Obama’s rationing agenda to try to ensure the affordability of socialized medicine after forcing Obamacare into law in a move towards Canadian-style health care.