Bad Blood in Canada

You would think that a massive malfunction of Canada's health care system, involving an incompetently run blood banking system, thousands of HIV and hepatitis C infections and deaths caused by negligence, and criminal prosecutions, would be found newsworthy by the US media. Incredibly, aside from brief reports of dismissals of the criminal indictments given with no explanation of the underlying disaster, the whole affair has been virtually blacked by our media. Such a screw up in a health care system which has been portrayed as a desirable alternative to our own certainly deserves closer scrutiny. Read about it at Hot Medical News.

[the root cause? the bane of all government run health'care' systems: once it's government, it's open to the full gamut of politically correct insanity - in this case, not excluding homosexual men from donating blood in the early '80 when screening techniques were rudimentary. obviously nothing newsworthy there.]

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