According to a post from the Toronto Sun, about 15,500 people died waiting for health care in 2023-24. Still a few kinks to work out in the system. I don’t know if the Sun is reliable or a rag, so take this with a grain of salt until somebody with more familiarity can vouch for them.
Yes, Arfside, there are still bugs to work out up here, but for the most part, the medical system is fairly good. Yes, there are things like hip or knee replacements that have a very long – WAY TOO LONG — wait list, and cancer is always the biggie simply because it can spread so fast and there is only that small diminishing window in which effective treatment is beneficial. But up here, once you get into the system it is fairly good. True, certain provinces are better than others, here in Alberta, we have what other provinces don’t have, and we know of people coming from the east coast provinces to Alberta for treatment, if there is space available (it is the Provinces who manage their own health care systems, the federal government pay them to manage it, hence the disparity of which province has good or bad). Some of our doctors and nurses eye the States as a goal, they can make more $$$ but it does come with a downside, no slight intended to Americans. The comparison which nighthawks illustrated… well, our income taxes pay for all of that for-which-you-do-not-see. And our income taxes are very (VERY!) much higher here than in the States, we are not (yet) a socialist country, we are still a (sliding) capitalist country, but our governments (whether on the left or on the right) here look upon the people as to help them. But, the bills still need to be paid, somehow, and nothing in life is free. We Canadians will b*tch about our Health Care System, but I for one would not want the American system where it is onerous to get medical coverage. Here in Canada, there is still a better way, in my eyes, to a need of tiered coverage, where there is a combination or blend of “Public” and of “Private” coverage, something that is more fair, and most fair, to ALL. But I would never trade it for the “true American” system. IF something happens to me — heart attack, hospitalization, car accident, falling on a slippery sidewalk and breaking a bone — I know I will be treated for what I need, and not by what I can afford.
But I say this maybe because my wife and I have had the same family doctor for the last 43 years, finding a family doctor nowadays here is difficult, but you can find one if you keep looking. Plus, as I move more into my end-days, I know that I won’t have to sell everything just to keep me breathing. Yes, I have health problems, I’m 71, Mr Heart is sporadic in his beats, and everyone (EVERYONE!) gets only a limited number of those beats…
As for the Toronto Sun, it’s a middle of the road newspaper, but like ALL newspapers nowadays, they have their own slant, and, let’s face it, they need eyeballs to pay their bills too so you can’t always fully believe their view on anything — just like ALL newspapers… Their “15,500 people” is across all of Canada, population of 43 million. Even “1” is too many, but you can never, ever, do it all. Unfortunately. But it is the way it goes. Here in Canada. There in Europe. Even in America.
Thanks for your reply. Glad there may be ways to fix it, preferably without even more taxes. I hope you and your wife enjoy your life and health much longer. As for doctors, my aunt outlived three of hers when she died at just short of 103.
Another thing I look at, related to my first post…
Even if 15,500 Canadians died waiting for health care….
Every study, every website, comes up with a different number, but even taking the lowest…. far more people die in the US due to NO health care.
A government study in 2023 estimated that 8% of Americans had no health insurance, in spite of the number being lowered by the Affordable Care Act.
Another said 250,000 had delayed or not sought care due to cost.
I was certainly one of those before I turned 65, with no insurance. I had a rather minimum health plan in my 40s, with high deductibles, but when I turned 50 the cost more than doubled and I had to drop it.
Now that I’m a senior citizen I have a Medicare Advantage plan… I may not get the very best care, using an HMO instead of shopping around for the best doctors the way rich people can…
But I spent many years with undiagnosed health problems, which is coming back to bite me now. Had they been worse, I could have been a statistic.
BTW…
I know I haven’t cited my sources… I read those figures recently, cos I happened to be discussing this with someone by email. If you really want the sources I’ll do the research again.
I had a fall just before Christmas and needed emergency attention. It took ninety minutes from calling 911 to being hospitalized, treated and stable I have nothing but praise for the Canadian medical system!
I personally feel that too many of our fellow Canucks are too quick to condemn our health care system. Sure, there are faults, and, true, there are factions within which would prevent even a bit of privatization, but all-in-all, I agree, it does work. Could it be made better? Definitely. Starting to see some additional outsourcing to the private sector here in Alberta, lots of resistance though. Private-sector can do so much more efficiently and more cost-effectively — there is none of that bureaucratic bloat which comes with the governments.
ow apropos.
I have been watching videos on YouTube from a poster called Geology Hub. You get up to date news on all the volcanos and earthquakes tha have happened.
Yes, that’s what they assume caused the earthquake, and will cause more in the future…
But it doesn’t answer the question of the difference in damage between houses.
The whole city is built on the San Andreas fault, as are several other cities in coastal California, because it extends for about 750 miles, from the very north to about the very south of the state (or vice versa).
It theoretically runs through just the south part of San Francisco, then heads briefly out to sea… But the shaking travels miles from the actual line on a map.
Some people say we’re all fools to stay here… but hey, no place is perfect 😁
It’s not a line, or a single vertical split, that would open under one house and not another, like in a cartoon.
A fault is huge .. and broken and meandering.
A horizontal plate sliding here, or a bed of gravel rolling there. A split opening sideways or one side slipping vertically. Or parallel lines of them. A few feet wide in one spot and several miles wide in another.
Mostly far underground and only loosely mappable.
If big rocks shift underground, a wide swath can tilt or shake on the surface, and since it’s touching the land around it, it all shakes or slides.
One side of a split drops and the other side rises…which lifts or tilts a whole block on the surface, which makes the next block slide away from it…. It’s like those dominoes that knock each other over.
Also, some houses were/are much better built than others… especially back then with lenient building codes, and some probably built before any, or when graft was rampant.
Obviously, some wood is stronger than other wood.
Some houses may have had basements, though they’re rare now on the West Coast, which may have helped keep them more upright than those laid on boards lying on the ground, with no foundation at all.
The taller one in this picture may simply have had a too-high center of gravity.
1. Big fuss over nothing
2. Growing old
3. Pea in a pod (they should have put in two Ps)
4. Hip joint? (Like a cool bar) Probably not.
5.
6. Apple of my eye
7. Cherry on the cake (I’m not sure that’s an expression.)
8. Broken leg
9. Cutting corners
10. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree?
11. Cut the cheese
12.
13. Things are out of hand?
14. Get set?
15.
16. Long story short?
From the site (the official answers / the graphics did not zoom up at all well / *…s indicate the ones I got) left to right, top to bottom>
1 Big fuss over nothing
2 Growing old*
3 Two peas in a pod*
4 Joined at the hip
5 Down to eath
6 Apple of my eye*
7 Cherry on the cake
8 Break a leg
9 Cutting corners
10 The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree*
11 Cutting the cheese
12 Feeling under the weather
13 Things getting out of hand
14 Get in shape
15 Change of heart
16 Long story short*
Thanks, I’ve corrected it now and #s 4 – 16 are now in their correct places in the numbering system.
I can’t explain what happened (or is that I won’t explain what happened?).
.
<3
Looks a bit tentative. What is it about you that worries him (or her)?
The new pup, Fawn, has that look.
Concerned, and jut a bit baffled.
With your love she will grow up self-secure and just fine.
I think it’s a built in look. She has a deep furrow in her brow.
Just looks that way. Even when she is bouncing happy.
,
Norman? Is that you?
“You raaang?”
,,
I think maybe I’ll stay in California….
As long as they didn’t come fresh from a cremation…
A walk on the wild side.
Not the only way.
I can’t believe there are people who say no.
Some of them say it’s because it takes longer to get certain kinds of care, or surgeries or procedures, in Canada.
But they’re forgetting that the availability they brag about in the US is due to the otherwise would-be patients who can’t afford to get them at all.
According to a post from the Toronto Sun, about 15,500 people died waiting for health care in 2023-24. Still a few kinks to work out in the system. I don’t know if the Sun is reliable or a rag, so take this with a grain of salt until somebody with more familiarity can vouch for them.
Yes, Arfside, there are still bugs to work out up here, but for the most part, the medical system is fairly good. Yes, there are things like hip or knee replacements that have a very long – WAY TOO LONG — wait list, and cancer is always the biggie simply because it can spread so fast and there is only that small diminishing window in which effective treatment is beneficial. But up here, once you get into the system it is fairly good. True, certain provinces are better than others, here in Alberta, we have what other provinces don’t have, and we know of people coming from the east coast provinces to Alberta for treatment, if there is space available (it is the Provinces who manage their own health care systems, the federal government pay them to manage it, hence the disparity of which province has good or bad). Some of our doctors and nurses eye the States as a goal, they can make more $$$ but it does come with a downside, no slight intended to Americans. The comparison which nighthawks illustrated… well, our income taxes pay for all of that for-which-you-do-not-see. And our income taxes are very (VERY!) much higher here than in the States, we are not (yet) a socialist country, we are still a (sliding) capitalist country, but our governments (whether on the left or on the right) here look upon the people as to help them. But, the bills still need to be paid, somehow, and nothing in life is free. We Canadians will b*tch about our Health Care System, but I for one would not want the American system where it is onerous to get medical coverage. Here in Canada, there is still a better way, in my eyes, to a need of tiered coverage, where there is a combination or blend of “Public” and of “Private” coverage, something that is more fair, and most fair, to ALL. But I would never trade it for the “true American” system. IF something happens to me — heart attack, hospitalization, car accident, falling on a slippery sidewalk and breaking a bone — I know I will be treated for what I need, and not by what I can afford.
But I say this maybe because my wife and I have had the same family doctor for the last 43 years, finding a family doctor nowadays here is difficult, but you can find one if you keep looking. Plus, as I move more into my end-days, I know that I won’t have to sell everything just to keep me breathing. Yes, I have health problems, I’m 71, Mr Heart is sporadic in his beats, and everyone (EVERYONE!) gets only a limited number of those beats…
As for the Toronto Sun, it’s a middle of the road newspaper, but like ALL newspapers nowadays, they have their own slant, and, let’s face it, they need eyeballs to pay their bills too so you can’t always fully believe their view on anything — just like ALL newspapers… Their “15,500 people” is across all of Canada, population of 43 million. Even “1” is too many, but you can never, ever, do it all. Unfortunately. But it is the way it goes. Here in Canada. There in Europe. Even in America.
Thanks for your reply. Glad there may be ways to fix it, preferably without even more taxes. I hope you and your wife enjoy your life and health much longer. As for doctors, my aunt outlived three of hers when she died at just short of 103.
Another thing I look at, related to my first post…
Even if 15,500 Canadians died waiting for health care….
Every study, every website, comes up with a different number, but even taking the lowest…. far more people die in the US due to NO health care.
A government study in 2023 estimated that 8% of Americans had no health insurance, in spite of the number being lowered by the Affordable Care Act.
Another said 250,000 had delayed or not sought care due to cost.
I was certainly one of those before I turned 65, with no insurance. I had a rather minimum health plan in my 40s, with high deductibles, but when I turned 50 the cost more than doubled and I had to drop it.
Now that I’m a senior citizen I have a Medicare Advantage plan… I may not get the very best care, using an HMO instead of shopping around for the best doctors the way rich people can…
But I spent many years with undiagnosed health problems, which is coming back to bite me now. Had they been worse, I could have been a statistic.
BTW…
I know I haven’t cited my sources… I read those figures recently, cos I happened to be discussing this with someone by email. If you really want the sources I’ll do the research again.
I had a fall just before Christmas and needed emergency attention. It took ninety minutes from calling 911 to being hospitalized, treated and stable I have nothing but praise for the Canadian medical system!
Thank you, Steve.
I personally feel that too many of our fellow Canucks are too quick to condemn our health care system. Sure, there are faults, and, true, there are factions within which would prevent even a bit of privatization, but all-in-all, I agree, it does work. Could it be made better? Definitely. Starting to see some additional outsourcing to the private sector here in Alberta, lots of resistance though. Private-sector can do so much more efficiently and more cost-effectively — there is none of that bureaucratic bloat which comes with the governments.
,
ow apropos.
I have been watching videos on YouTube from a poster called Geology Hub. You get up to date news on all the volcanos and earthquakes tha have happened.
Fire is especially dangerous on mountains made of paper.
All that paper smoke could go up just like that!
,,
Try it now…
Nice try, but the electricity pole doesn’t look so good.
That looks like a San Francisco hill.
‘Tis.
Sadly, this was actually taken on Howard Street in San Francisco, after the 1906 earthquake.
Stepping back, you can better see how badly the houses are damaged….
I wonder what caused those houses to be so damaged, while the ones behind them came out seemingly OK.
(Built on) San Andreas’ Fault?
Yes, that’s what they assume caused the earthquake, and will cause more in the future…
But it doesn’t answer the question of the difference in damage between houses.
The whole city is built on the San Andreas fault, as are several other cities in coastal California, because it extends for about 750 miles, from the very north to about the very south of the state (or vice versa).
It theoretically runs through just the south part of San Francisco, then heads briefly out to sea… But the shaking travels miles from the actual line on a map.
Some people say we’re all fools to stay here… but hey, no place is perfect 😁
I meant directly on the split.
Oh… Sorry, but it doesn’t work like that.
It’s not a line, or a single vertical split, that would open under one house and not another, like in a cartoon.
A fault is huge .. and broken and meandering.
A horizontal plate sliding here, or a bed of gravel rolling there. A split opening sideways or one side slipping vertically. Or parallel lines of them. A few feet wide in one spot and several miles wide in another.
Mostly far underground and only loosely mappable.
If big rocks shift underground, a wide swath can tilt or shake on the surface, and since it’s touching the land around it, it all shakes or slides.
One side of a split drops and the other side rises…which lifts or tilts a whole block on the surface, which makes the next block slide away from it…. It’s like those dominoes that knock each other over.
Depends on the landfill under it.
Also, some houses were/are much better built than others… especially back then with lenient building codes, and some probably built before any, or when graft was rampant.
Obviously, some wood is stronger than other wood.
Some houses may have had basements, though they’re rare now on the West Coast, which may have helped keep them more upright than those laid on boards lying on the ground, with no foundation at all.
The taller one in this picture may simply have had a too-high center of gravity.
It appears to be contagious.
“Quit yer shovin’!”
Where’s the line going down?
There’s a parachute concession at the peak…
Fleeing from
.
1. Big fuss over nothing
2. Growing old
3. Pea in a pod (they should have put in two Ps)
4. Hip joint? (Like a cool bar) Probably not.
5.
6. Apple of my eye
7. Cherry on the cake (I’m not sure that’s an expression.)
8. Broken leg
9. Cutting corners
10. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree?
11. Cut the cheese
12.
13. Things are out of hand?
14. Get set?
15.
16. Long story short?
3. Two peas in a pod
4. Attached by the hip
5. Down to Earth
12. Feeling under the weather
14. Get(s) in shape
15. In the middle/center of the heart?
Thanks… I can’t look in your spoiler till I try to finish it myself.
I didn’t have much time…. But I’ll be back.
I couldn’t go any farther than my last revision….
And your answers agree with the official ones (from Alexi’s post) for #s 3, 4(more or less) & 5, though to me they were very badly clued.
Your answer to #15 doesn’t work for me, and isn’t a common expression, or anything I’ve ever heard anyone say….
But don’t worry…the supposedly official one is an expression, but is in no way illustrated by the clue.
After looking at your answers i think i have #15.
1 Big fuss over nothing
2 Growing old*
3 Two peas in a pod*
4 Joined at the hip
5 Down to eath
6 Apple of my eye*
7 Cherry on the cake
8 Break a leg
9 Cutting corners
10 The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree*
11 Cutting the cheese
12 Feeling under the weather
13 Things getting out of hand
14 Get in shape
15 Change of heart
16 Long story short*
SITE
For the answers click on the second graphic from the left at the bottom.
Thanks, but there are sixteen.
Your numbering goes astray after you leave out the real #4.
Thanks, I’ve corrected it now and #s 4 – 16 are now in their correct places in the numbering system.
I can’t explain what happened (or is that I won’t explain what happened?).
.,,
I couldn’t think of anything all of them were ever in, or even all associated with… Turns out this was a photoshoot for Vanity Fair in 2003.
Um… well….
We’ll hope he’s just snoring.
If I hadn’t seen the caption, I wouldn’t have known who either of these are (Nothing new there then!).
I could never understand why Ed Ames, a reasonably successful singer, was willing to play that part or why they cast him in it.
Yet he seems to have embraced it.
It would never happen today (I hope, anyway!)
These porch pirates have really upped their game!
I’d stay as far back as I could!