Canada's health care system was restructured for the worst and now we have one evidenced based study after another telling us that we have to go through additional restructuring. Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn, a co-author of a new Canadian health study, says "we found that after the one hospital closed and centralization of services, that physicians in fact performed an increased number of coronary procedures on sicker patients and despite that fact, the hospital stays were shorter and their in-hospital mortality was not increased(1)." And health research guru Michael Rachlis has commented that this study is tangible proof of the benefits of regionalization and centralization of health care and has stated "it shows that many of the changes in the health care system have been good, and have benefitted people." And Michael Decter, chairman of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), echoed again the benefits of medical centralization as supported by another similar study released by his institute last week(2).

There is no doubt that most health researchers reflect the herd mentality of the forecasting community(3) and are going to brainwash the public with the fudging of their fraudulent and deceptive studies(4).

In his Spring 2001 editorial "Better health through research," Laurie Thompson, CEO of the evidence based Health Services Utilization and Research Commission (HSURC) of Saskatchewan, says that increasing the province's spending on health research... would have a huge impact on our future." So, before health care gets better, we have to endure further studies, further wastes of money, further brainwashing, and further legislation for the ultimate benefit of our evidence based researchers, our bureaucrats, and our politicians.

References/endnotes

Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://www.tidepool.org/gc/

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1. Closing hospitals saves lives: study, Tom Arnold and Anne Marie Owens, May 15, 2001, National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010515/563245.html

2. Media Releases, by CIHI Http://www.cihi.ca/medrls/rls1.shtml

3. Business Dynamics, by John D. Sterman, page 654 http://mhhe.com/sterman

4. Business Dynamics, by John D. Sterman, page 857 http://mhhe.com/sterman

Michael Dector home page http://www.michaeldecter.com/

Excerpts from a speach by Dector http://www.cancerbc.com/nccc/DecterStrongWinds.htm