A friend of mine from Canada messaged me this past week to tell me about her trip to the United States to get surgery. She had to pay tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket herself to get treated. Although she had probably paid tens of thousands of dollars into the Canadian single payer system, when she asked THEM for care, they told her it would be about 2 years before she could get treated.

Here’s a related story from the Globe and Mail, which is the more leftist of Canada’s two national newspapers:

Half of the children in Canada who need surgery are facing waiting times that far exceed clinical recommendations for treatment, a situation experts say could have serious, lifelong consequences for young patients’ development.

The waiting-time numbers, collected from children’s hospitals across the country by the Pediatric Surgical Chiefs of Canada, highlight the immense strain pediatric facilities are under. The burden has also led to overcrowded hospitals, record emergency-room waits and delayed diagnosis and treatment of developmental conditions.

The problem with having a health care monopoly is that it eliminates the need for health care providers to compete with each other to reduce costs and improve quality. In every monopoly, the providers have no reason to innovate, so they don’t. And if you don’t like it, you can take whatever money you have left from taxes and go to another country.

This is horrifying:

Pediatric surgeries are performed in order of how urgent they are, but even urgent procedures are being delayed beyond the recommended windows of time. Pediatric orthopedic surgeries are among the procedures most commonly subject to lengthy delays.

In an e-mailed statement, Ontario Health wrote that, as of Aug. 1, 55 per cent of those on the pediatric surgical waiting list had waited beyond the recommended timelines for their procedures.

Mr. Squires said the most recent Ontario data he has seen show that about 40 per cent of adult patients are waiting beyond the recommended timelines for surgeries.

Consider a 2021 report on wait times in Canada:

Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 25.6 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 22.6 weeks reported in 2020. This year’s wait time is the longest wait time recorded in this survey’s history and is 175% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.

The waiting time for a referral to a general practitioner to a specialist increased from 10.5 weeks in 2020 to 11.1 weeks in 2021. And the waiting time from seeing a specialist to actually getting treatment  increased from 12.1 weeks in 2020 to 14.5 weeks in 2021.

Something to think about when the secular left tells you that they can improve healthcare by taxing you more, and having a government-run system. The Biden administration thinks that parents are “domestic terrorists” if they object to the education monopoly. They’ll think that you are a “domestic terrorist” if you object to the failures of their health care monopoly, too. Socialism always fails, and when it fails, the people who complain are blamed for the failure. Be careful what you vote for.

If you had to pick one of the worst Big Tech companies that interferes with elections, censors conservatives, and enables secular left domestic terrorism, you could do worse than to choose Twitter. Now they are in hot water with their customers over allegations that they are involved with child sex abuse.

Story from Daily Wire:

According to a Reuters report, tweets soliciting child sex abuse material have appeared alongside or on profile pages of at least 30 major advertisers’ Twitter accounts. Some of those companies are now pulling their ad services off the social media platform.

Ghost Data, a cybersecurity group, released a new research report reviewed by Reuters about child sex abuse online that allegedly identified links to exploitative material containing child pornography. The information has led companies like Dyson, Ecolab, and Mazda to pause or pull their ads or campaigns from the platform.

“There is no place for this type of content online,” a spokesperson for Mazda USA said in a statement to Reuters.

The carmaker now prohibits its ads from appearing on Twitter profile pages.

According to the report, more than 500 accounts openly shared or requested child sex abuse material for 20 days during September 2022. Of those accounts, more than 70% were still active during the study.

In other Twitter news, Twitter has suspended LibsOfTikTok, an account which just shares the public videos from people on the secular left who want to sexualize children.

Here’s the story:

Once again, I have received a wrongful 7-day suspension as the result of a targeted harassment campaign from the Left to deplatform me. In response, we sent another letter to Twitter putting them on notice that we will sue them if they permanently suspend my account.

Twitter claims I have violated their “hateful conduct policy,” but like my last suspension, they have provided no explanation as to how I violated this policy. Was it hateful to expose an all-ages drag show where a stripper performed in front of children? Was it hateful to expose a drag queen who allowed a small child to repeatedly rub their crotch?

Was it hateful to expose Dr. Katherine Gast for openly stating that she “will operate on minors” for gender-affirming surgery?

The truth is I haven’t engaged in hateful conduct. I’ve just exposed the Left’s depravity by reporting the facts. There’s no rule against that, so they have to make up violations I’ve never committed.

I’m not sure which of these things Twitter supports, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that they supported all of them, and that’s why they allowed secular leftists to use Twitter to allegedly facilitate child sex abuse. It seems to me that this is what Twitter really believes.

When I look at how much the secular left is doing to protect people who want to sexualize children at an early age (against the wishes of their parents), it’s hard to resist the impression that a strong streak of pedophilia is running through the secular left. They’ve always thought that children were expendable, when it comes to adult desires. That’s why they favored no-fault divorce, infanticide, and same-sex marriage (where the child is denied access to one or both biological parents).

According to Democrats, parents who express concern about their children being groomed for sex with adults are “domestic terrorists”. Interesting to see big corporations finally drawing the line. It’s about time.

I’ve been watching the stock market plummet from the sidelines over the last few months, and just thinking about whether people are going to vote to change the direction of the economy in November. I know that Democrats voted for global warming alarmism, infanticide, indoctrinating kids in transgenderism, etc. But will the Biden inflation and recession economy change their minds?

Here’s the first one from center-left CNBC which talks about how $9 trillion in lost wealth from declining stocks is going to affect consumer spending, borrowing and investing:

Falling stock markets have wiped out more than $9 trillion in wealth from U.S. households, putting more pressure on family balance sheets and spending.

Americans’ holdings of corporate equities and mutual fund shares fell to $33 trillion at the end of the second quarter, down from $42 trillion at the start of the year, according to data from the Federal Reserve. With major market indexes falling even further since early July, and the bond market adding further losses, market experts say the current wealth losses from financial markets could total $9.5 trillion to $10 trillion.

Economists say the drops could soon start rippling through the economy, adding pressure to Americans’ balance sheets and possibly hurting spending, borrowing and investing.

[…]The drop in stock wealth also far exceeds the $6 trillion in quarterly stock losses during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. While stock markets have seen larger drops on a percentage basis, this year’s stock losses are among the largest ever on a dollar basis.

Here’s another one from center-left CNBC which talks about how ordinary Americans are having to take on extra work to deal with Biden inflation – like the 8.3% year over year increase in August:

Nearly 70% of Americans are looking for extra work to combat inflation, according to more than 1,000 full-time workers, part-time workers and unemployed workers surveyed by Bluecrew, a workforce-as-a-service platform, in September.

Already, 85% of Americans said they’ve changed their spending habits due to inflation, 72% say it’s impacted the way they view their job and 57% have sought out new or additional roles in the past year, according to the survey.

“Rapid inflation is forcing people to look at not only how they’re spending their money, but also how they’re earning their money,” says Matt Laurinas, chief customer officer at Bluecrew.

In many cases, those looking for work already log 40 hours during the week and are picking up extra shifts or gig work on nights and weekends, Laurinas says.

Others taking on additional work include people who hold hourly jobs and want more hours with another company, or parents who have caregiving needs during the week and need to work weekends while a partner or family member can provide care.

What do we learn from this? Well, the only good thing that’s happening right now is that the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates, so that people don’t lose the purchasing power of their savings. They waited too long to do it, but it’s a smart move. The problem we have now is that the socialists control the House and the Senate. And so, we can expect a Venezuela / Cuba / Argentina style economy. Unless we vote them out.

Right now, the Biden administration is ignoring inflation, the plummeting stock market, and the reality of the recession. They only want to talk about the global warming monster, how to trans kids against the wishes of their parents, and codifying infanticide. They’re crazy. If you ever want to stop working and retire, you better make sure that you and ALL your friends and family vote them out in November.