Saskatchewan Healthcare:Using Research to Blatantly Lie to the Public |
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By Mario deSantis, November 27, 1999 |
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| Yesterday, as I read the article "Negative stats discouraging(1)" I became disgusted and my thoughts | ||
| swirled around the last research performed by the Health Services Utilization and Research | ||
| Commission (HSURC). This research(2), costing thousands and thousands of dollars of taxpayers' | ||
| money, suggests that rural health has improved since health reform were implemented in 1993. I | ||
| made fun of these reductionist researchers(3), but now that I read the above mentioned social | ||
| statistics I realize the atrocious consequences of the present governmental direction in healthcare. | ||
| Healthcare is supposed to progressively support healthy communities and healthy people; instead, | ||
| the latest 1998 figures from Statistics Canada picture a desperate condition of the health status of our | ||
| population. I report below a brief summary of these statistics: | ||
| - Saskatchewan has the highest crime rate in Canada | ||
| - Saskatchewan has the highest rate of sexual offences in Canada | ||
| - The Saskatchewan youth crime rate has been the highest in Canada | ||
| - The Saskatchewan infant mortality is the second highest in Canada, behind the | ||
| --Northwest Territories | ||
| - Saskatchewan has maintained for the last ten years the highest rate of impaired driving | ||
| --charges in Canada | ||
| The writers of this article conclude "...to even be among the worst is enough to drive a person to | ||
| drink..." This remind me of the times, when in the late 70s, while working under the Saskatchewan | ||
| Health-Care Association (SHA), I would come back home and I would express my disappointment | ||
| to my wife Sharon "...these people at SHA are professional liars, they are paid a salary just to lie, | ||
| I can't believe it..." Today, the situation is worse, we have a corrupted government which has | ||
| alienated the public at large, and researchers selling their souls. How long more should we endure | ||
| such emperors with no clothes? | ||
| -------------Endnotes: | ||
| Negative stats discouraging, SP Opinons, The StarPhoenix, November 26, 1999, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | ||
| Assessing the Impact of the 1993 Acute Care Funding Cuts to Rural Saskatchewan Hospitals, by Health Services Utilization and Research Commission (HSURC), Summary Report No. 13, September 1999, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | ||
| Fragmented Research comes to the help of Saskatchewan Reform, by Mario deSantis, September 28, 1999 | ||