March, 26, 2011
To Canada’s Future Prime Minister,
I can not believe we are headed back to the polls, but rather than complain I am going to push for what matters to me the most, health care!!!
To our Future Prime Minister of Canada, how do you plan on fixing Canada’s healthcare system?
Prime Minister _ _ _ _ _, you must have heard about CCSVI (Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency) by now. Canadians deserve to be treated for this venous abnormality that has been shown to relieve or stop many of the so-called MS symptoms (Multiple Sclerosis). Canadians with the label of MS are nothing more then dollar signs to the MSSC (Multiple sclerosis Society of Canada) and the supporting neurologists of the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research). Canada does not run our health care system anymore. It is run by the pharmaceutical companies who pour in money in order to promote, research and implement the use of their poisons. How many members of the CIHR have been granted research dollars? Of these, how many have worked for pharmaceutical companies? Is this not a conflict of interest? How can we, as Canadians, trust our own healthcare professionals when they are heavily influenced by the Pharmaceutical industry?
The past federal government failed to step in to help Canadians who were seeking the venoplasty procedure on compassionate grounds after their provincial Health Ministers denied their request. How many Canadians will you leave to suffer and eventually succumb to the symptoms of not having a properly functioning venous system?
The past government has left CCSVI in the hands of the MSSC and the CIHR; these two parties’ have everything to lose when the treatment of CCSVI is allowed to be performed in Canada on those with the label of MS.
We want Canada’s health care system brought back to Canadians and the reins taken away from the Pharmaceutical Companies. I realize that there will be billions of lost revenue to those who make their living off of fellow Canadians diagnosed with MS. Prime Minister _ _ _ _, if there are 75,000 people with the label of MS it is costing Canada roughly $40,000 per person in medications alone - this equals 3 billion dollars a year. My wife and thousands of other Canadians that have the unfortunate label of MS deserve to be tested and treated for CCSVI. The treatment is a 45 minute venoplasty procedure that is performed by Interventional Radiologist and will cost roughly $2000.00 per patient.
Venoplasty is not a new or risky procedure. It is performed all over Canada on a daily basis unless you have been labelled with MS. You are then the property of the Pharmaceutical Giants, Neurologists and the MSSC. The issue of being denied a treatment that is available to other Canadians will only go away when you take those living off of Canadians with MS out of the picture. The two biggest costs to our health care system are a lot of unneeded pharmaceuticals and the so-called doctors who health Canada is paying to push these drugs on Canadians.
Canada needs to take control of our health care system as there are too many hands in the medicine cabinet.
I can not stress this fact enough - CCSVI is a venous issue that needs to be treated by Interventional Radiologists in order for Canadians that have been stricken with this venous abnormality to have a chance for a healthy life that we are all entitled to.
Prime Minister _ _ _ _ _, I have never voted on a single issue before, but the way Canadians with the label of MS have been discriminated against has left me feeling very bitter and disgusted. My wife Jenny was given back to me on September the 14th 2010 after receiving a venoplasty procedure in San Diego that has restored her venous system. This simple 45 minute procedure with testing and travel was about $15.000 that I would pay for again if necessary as many times as I possibly could afford.
By the way, I claimed it on my income tax.
Sincerely Lorin Powell
Nanaimo BC
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