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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=27245" target="_blank">Government kills health advice website</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/19-health" target="_blank">Health</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-11-18 09:16:00
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[Scape]

What the fuck?

[hwacker]

http://www.webmd.com/

Canada doesn't have unlimited funds.


It’s called trimming the (liberal) fat.

[tritium]

Does anyone know what the URL was to the Canadian web site??

[ridenrain]

Which one?

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/index_e.html

Google shoots back a crapload, the first 3 being federal, then provinces and all the political and union crap that we can never be safe from.
Exactly, how many of these do we need?

[Scape]

Preventive medicine is a bargain compared to treatment. This is an idiotic decision. We do not even have one federally run drug program so every province needs it's own because no two drug programs are the same. At the same time it is the feds that are the ones with access to the front line research. The information they have that they can readily share with other health professionals as well as the public at large is vast and unique.

[ridenrain]

here is the site in question.
It cost $7 million a year.

[web]http://www.canadian-health-network.ca/servlet/ContentServer?cid=1038611684536&pagename=CHN-RCS/Page/HomePageTemplate&c=Page&lang=En[/web]

[Streaker]

Unbelievably dumb and shortsighted. Makes you wonder how badly these clowns would screw up our healthcare system if they ever got a majority.

[ridenrain]

Wow. Majority Fearmongering AND the political slap. You missed the US style, for profit motive and the usual references to GWB however.

For that you only get 3/10.

[RUEZ]

Streaker Streaker:

Unbelievably dumb and shortsighted. Makes you wonder how badly these clowns would screw up our healthcare system if they ever got a majority.

Makes me wonder why you think they would?

[Streaker]

pfft....

Canada's "new" government should be promoting preventative health care. Instead, it's going to nickel-and-dime the system.

What would be the motive for doing that?

[ridenrain]

How many redundant websites do you want anyways? That site had very low readership by the general public and even then, how many people actually follow the advice?

I seriously doubt any here even knew it existed before it made the news by being cut. Now that it's on the blocks, maybe some Canadian medical association or the CBC can pick up the tab.

[tritium]

I just can't believe that web site cost 7 million dollars to maintain. Must be like those $800 toilet seats the U.S. military buys.

Maybe they should hire Trevor to run it.

[Scape]

The web site itself is nickel and dime stuff to maintain it is the vetting and policy process that costs a great deal to be accurate. Drugs can kill and you need to be careful on how the information is presented.

[Streaker]

Not at all surprising that it costs so much. Still a good value.