XPost: can.politics, ab.poli.tics, edm.general   
   From: do_u_care@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:16:03 -0700, John Fleming    
   wrote:   
      
   >[Default] On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:04:53 -0800, while chained to a desk   
   >in the scriptorium Con??Con?  wrote:   
   >> $On 1/24/2014 4:56 PM, John Fleming wrote:   
   >> $> There  is a big bunch of people, called the baby boom, approaching the   
   >> $> traditional retirement age.   
   >> $>   
   >> $> Older people do have a larger number of chrionic health conditions.   
   >> $>   
   >> $> Life expectancy at birth for Canadian men was under70 in 1971 and just   
   >> $> shy of 77 for women.  It's now pushing 80 for men and is just over 80   
   >> $> for women.   
   >> $>   
   >> $> That is creating an increased load on the health care system.   
   >> $   
   >> $No kidding?  What has it got to do with the number of healthcare cards   
   >> $out there as compared to the number of Canadians out there?   
   >   
   >If we are talking about the increasing cost of health care, well, that   
   >is a source of increasing cost.   
   >   
   >One day, m'dear, you and I will be living on psuedo life support and   
   >cocktails of drugs that so degrade our brain's ability to function we   
   >can't remember our own names and phone numbers.   
   >   
   >Anyhow, one way to cut down on health care fraud is to simply require   
   >doctors, hospitals, clinics and the like to present both a health care   
   >card *and* another approved form of ID such as a government issued   
   >driver's licence?  (Recently had some diagnostic imaging done, and   
   >that is what the place did--asked for both a health care card and   
   >photo ID).   
      
   Exactly, this should have been started a long time ago OR we all   
   should carry ID CARDS with our pictures on it. I still say that   
   driver's licence have too much information on them that thieves could   
   use if you lose your card.   
      
   >   
   >Behind the scenes, health services can use software to catch   
   >fraudulent health card users much the same way as banks use software   
   >to catch fraudulent credit card users.  Let's face it, it is a bit   
   >hard to be visiting a doctor when in Calgary when, according to   
   >Alberta Netcare, you are undergoing open heart surgery at the   
   >Mazankowski Heart Institute in Edmonton.   
   >   
   >Or, if you really did want people's photos, why put them on a health   
   >care card when you can store the image on an electronic system like   
   >Netcare and the person giving you health care can look at you, sitting   
   >virtually naked on the examination table, and compare you with the   
   >image on the computer screen?   
      
   Because computers can be hacked - cards can also be copied or changed   
   but if they are constantly changed, say once every two or so years   
   then the chance of anyone taking the time to change the picture on   
   your card will not be worth while for anyone.   
      
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