Universal Health Care or Universal Suffering?

From Rebel News, the independent Canadian news agency, we get the following. Dying for a diagnosis — the tragedy of Interior Health’s waitlists

In British Columbia, politicians love to talk about “universal health care.” But what they don’t talk about is universal suffering—because in the Interior Health region alone, 1,586 patients died last year while waiting for medical imaging or elective surgery. Not while being treated. Not in recovery. They died waiting for the help that never came.

In the world of Socialized Medicine, like Canadian Health Care, "elective surgery" is not only stuff like a tummy tuck or a nose job; it is any surgery that is not mandated by a life or death emergency. You need a hip replacement because you're in pain and can't walk? That is elective surgery, and you are going to have to wait. Cataracts making you blind? Ditto. The list is quite long.

This is the Rebel News video Dying for a diagnosis — the tragedy of Interior Health’s waitlists. I'm not sure that there is much difference between the video and the article, but I found the video first.