{"id":1128,"date":"2009-07-18T23:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T04:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2009-07-18T23:08:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T04:08:28","slug":"canadian-health-care-system-under-john-stossels-watchful-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Health Care System Under John Stossel&#039;s Watchful Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stethoscope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1129\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stethoscope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stethoscope.jpg 400w, https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stethoscope-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stethoscope-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>Mark your calendars.\u00a0 On Friday July 24th, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/Stossel\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Stossel<\/a> has a segment on ABC&#8217;s 20\/20 which looks at the Canadian Universal Health Care system.\u00a0\u00a0 This is very timely as the Obama administration is poised to pass a Universal Health Care bill through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to educate American&#8217;s about our system, Stossel does some serious digging.\u00a0 In a brief preview some of the information that will be revealed is:<\/p>\n<p>a)\u00a0 Canadian doctors earn less than 50% of what their American counterparts make, which leads to the doctor shortage.<\/p>\n<p>b)\u00a0 towns in Canada are holding lotteries when space opens up with local family doctors to determine which family will get a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>c) CT Scans, MRIs and other critical tests can get done usually next day&#8230;if you are a cat or a dog.\u00a0 But for a human the wait time is far longer.<\/p>\n<p>If Stossel &#8216;s past segments are an indication of what we can expect then this segment should be eye opening for Canadians as well as Americans.\u00a0 I urge you all to take note and set your PVR&#8217;s.\u00a0 For a sneak peak, check out the early promo by <a title=\"Preview of John Stossel's 20\/20 Canadian Healthcare segment\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Video\/playerIndex?id=7903062\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We will also do our part and try to get the show recorded and posted to the web as we feel it is critical for Canadians to know how OfficiallyScrewed we really are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark your calendars.\u00a0 On Friday July 24th, John Stossel has a segment on ABC&#8217;s 20\/20 which looks at the Canadian Universal Health Care system.\u00a0\u00a0 This is very timely as the Obama administration is poised to pass a Universal Health Care bill through Congress. In an effort to educate American&#8217;s about our system, Stossel does some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,40,44,51,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-obamunism","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-american","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}