A Canadian think tank writes that Saskatchewan should be assessing the impact of higher wait times for surgery on patients.
Her doctors started her on a painkiller, but she quit shortly after for fear of getting addicted and potentially dealing with liver damage down the line.
She copes with splitting abdominal pain and bone fractures, which have led her to develop depression. It’s got so bad that she’s actively considering assisted suicide. Not a single province provided any documents, including Saskatchewan. This province said those documents do not exist. How is it possible to address the problem if you’re not even talking about it?
But that doesn’t address the fundamental problem of waitlists. The Moe government has made some positive steps on health reform. For instance, last summer, Premier Scott Moe committed to contracting out more taxpayer-funded surgeries to private providers, to help reduce the surgical backlog.One option that could help patients immediately would be to copy the European Union’s Cross-Border Directive, a policy SecondStreet.org has written about extensively in the past.
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