SOCIALIZED MEDICINE KILLS PATIENTS: Girl Dies Waiting For Bed In Canada
02.09.2016 | Daily Surge | 2
Laura Hillier was a beautiful, 18-year-old girl fighting Leukemia. She lost that battle because of a shortage of beds in Ontario’s Socialized Healthcare system even though a donor was available.
Tell me again why we want our healthcare system to be like Canada?
Didn’t we model much of Obamacare after Canada? We’re in for one hell of a ride folks.
Daily Surge Advice: Don’t get sick.
Here’s Laura’s story from The Daily Mail:
A girl who died of leukemia was given a final send off after her friends signed her casket with loving messages on January 30.
Laura Hillier got to experience a few normal childhood milestones like graduating high school and getting her senior year book signed before she died on January 20.
Laura might have experienced a few more milestones if a Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, hospital had been able to accommodate a bone marrow transplant for the young woman.
Numerous donors were a match with Laura and ready to donate, but Hamilton’s Juravinski Hospital didn’t have enough beds in high-air-pressure rooms for the procedure.
Hospital staff told her they had about 30 patients with potential donors, but the means to only do about five transplants a month.
Laura was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at age 13.
She had been completely cancer-free for approximately four years after her first battle with AML, and relapsed this past May.
Though Laura was able to achieve remission for a second time, she relapsed again in November 2015.
Dr. Ralph Meyer, Juravinski’s vice-president of oncology and palliative care, told Ontario’s TheStar.com there are plenty of others facing the same situation as Laura in Canada.
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http://dailysurge.com/2016/02/socialized-medicine-fails-patients-girl-dies-waiting-for-bed-in-canada/
