The Chaoulli Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada

This decision is misnamed. It should have been called the Doyle decision. Dr. Daniel Doyle, a cardiovascular surgeon, testified that patients waiting for a coronary bypass are "sitting on a bomb" and could "die at any moment". The judges seem to have lost their cool at hearing this. They forgot the old adage, "you don't ask a barber if you need a haircut". They didn't even think to ask Dr. Doyle if surgery would actually prevent the rare deaths on the waiting list. As we know from the MASS-II trial mortality is the same for surgically and medically treated patients with stable coronary disease who, by definition, comprise the "waiting list". So, a basic principal of Canadian medicare system was destroyed by irrational fear of death. Remind you of Ancient Egypt?

The graphic at right was almost a full page size on the front page of the National Post the day after the decision. Note the ECG tracings at top and bottom. Implication? You will die of heart attack because of public health care

Here is the Ancient Egyptian version of the "coronary bypass", a means of living forever administered by a secretive, priestly class.

The heart was removed to be weighed against a feather representing Ma'at to determine moral righteousness. The brain was sucked out of the cranial cavity and thrown away because the Egyptian's thought it was useless. Personal belongings were usually placed in the tomb to make the Ka more at home and to assist the dead in their journey into the afterlife.

For more details see Egyptian Afterlife