Evacuated and thousands more are left with no electricity. The french journalist expelled from beijing is flying home today. Chinese authorities refused to renew her visa, accusing her of supporting terrorism. First of all, lets wish a happy new year to those of you who are in new zealand. The clock has already struck midnight there and the annual fireworks display has kicked off. Take a look at these impressive pictures coming to us from auckland. There, luckyrks and, because here in paris in belgium, in fact, the fireworks have been canceled. Major cities across the world are on high alert. We have a tour of the security measures that have been put into place. Reporter while parisians celebrate, Security Services will be hard at work. In a city on edge since deadly terror attacks last month, security has been stepped up for new years eve. 60,000 troops have been deployed across the country and, here in the capital, festivities have been toned down. The annual fireworks display has be
The issue of wait times, when it comes to emergent care, canadians are not waiting substantially longer than our peers in other countries including the United States. Unfortunately, it was true that has not been the case for medical care such as nondiagnostic imaging. A great deal of work was underway to address this challenge. And indeed, waits have been decreasing over the last decade. It is important to note that moving away from a single payer model would likely exacerbate our wait time challenge rather than alleviate it by drawing Critical Health Human Resources out of the public system. This is bourn out by International Evidence from other jurisdictions such as australia. The canadian system is proof that Public Health Care Insurance need not be provided federally in order to achieve the benefits of the single payer model. In canada, each province provides Public Health Care Insurance to its residents with minimum standards set at the federal level. Furthermore, moving to single
Performance is called avoidable mortality. That is in a Good Health Care system, women should not die in child birth. People should not die of tuberculosis. People should not die of aschemic Heart Disease. People should not die of cancers that can be cured. And when we look at that, im embarrassed to say that we come out in the United States as 19 and the french come out as number 1, i repeat, number 1. That is a fact that cannot be ignored. It must be addressed. It was written up in health affairs, a reputable journal. It was confirmed with different measures by the oecd, and it has not received in my judgment sufficient discussion. Another indicator of how well a system is doing and a theme of this subcommittee that i know is dear to chairman sanders is access to primary care. You can talk about primary care until youre blue in the face, but lets look at the consequences of whether you receive primary care or not in Different Health care systems. We have a very established measure of