The Art of Politics

Bad Medicine

Everyone who wants their hospital to be run like the DMV, raise your cholesterol...

A Quebec hospital is reporting a drastic rise in deaths from a common source, and the culprit isn't just the infection.

Hospitals are often breeding grounds for resistant strains of common infections - after all, they're already filled with sick people. This has happened in Quebec, Canada, home of national health coverage. It appears budget cuts have created conditions that may be leading to the increased deaths:

...cuts in health-care dollars have meant many Canadian hospitals have not been renovated, making it more difficult to ensure sanitary conditions, he said, noting that in some Quebec hospitals, there can be 40 patients on a ward sharing one or two bathrooms.

"The result is that in some of these old buildings, the sanitary conditions are intolerable. I mean, it's indecent."

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Whenever we are tempted to look toward government to solve high health care prices, we should be brought back down to earth by what we can expect from government health care - unresponsive, arbitrary, unacceptable.

They're from the government, and they're here to cure you.

Posted by MEC2 at August 8, 2004 07:30 PM