Healthcare Advocate Mugs

"There will be a bit of a wait while we figure out a market solution to your problem."

"It's a major breakthrough. But we're still years away from being able to justify the outrageous cost per pill."

'More budget cuts. One gown per room. Who wants to wear it first?'

'This is the discharge nurse, she'll be able to tell you about all the services you aren't able to get any more when you leave.'

Focussing on what's REALLY important

"I'm afraid we couldn't stop the billing."

"He was doing well at first, but then he started drifting in and out of health coverage."

Skills and experience being dragged down by bureaucracy and protocols.

NHS Queue.

'No cuts in Medicare!'

'This is an 'old person', or if you want to use the more technical term, a 'bedblocker'.'

"The government does not want to hide behind statistics, but..."

He was injured at a debate on healthcare reform.

'You have an 85% chance of surviving this and 20% chance of wishing you hadn't.'

"Your disease is curable, but one side effect of this drug is poverty."

"I'm afraid we've had to move him to expensive care."

NHS recruitment.

Rural Health Care.

"The government will continue to provide the full range of NHS services to ANYONE who needs them WHENEVER they need them!"

'HELP! I'm in a hospital!'

'In the event of the end of medicare, which country has an intact health care system?'

Health care debate.

'Try and stay alive until the government have finished their consultation process.'

'Give it to me straight, doc. If I outlive medicare, will I have to flee Canada?'

'You're in luck, Mr. Dumpty. Falling off walls is a pre-existing condition now covered under the affordable care act.'

'Our patients come here to die with dignity.'

'Sorry - no budget for anaesthetic.'

'Coverage for pre-existing conditions? No lifetime caps?. . .Are you sure we haven't died and gone to heaven?'

"Uninsured? That needn't be a problem. We can refer you to a very fine doctor in Ottawa."

"It's about time the price of generic drugs went down! Oh, and give me fifty quick picks."

Next Rural Healthcare 300 Miles.

'I'm afraid we can't PAY you but would you accept endless meaningless platitudes about your valuable contribution to the decision making process instead?'

AIDS Medicine... Do not use in case of Kidney disease, Heart complaints and poverty.

NHS waste.

A gastric band is meant to go on the inside!