If you’re still in that dwindling band of Americans pushing for national health care – or at least the president’s version of it – these are tough times.
The latest problem? Well, the premier of the Canadian providence of Newfoundland … is coming to the U.S. for his heart surgery!
That’s right, reformers! Danny Williams is turning his back on Canada’s heavily regulated system for its free-enterprise counterpart south of the border. (Theirs, not ours. Otherwise we’d be talking about Mexico.)
This is going to be tough to explain away – and Danny Boy is not the first resident of the Great White North to look elsewhere for surgery ’n’ stitches. (Hey, that could be the name of a trendy new clinic!)
Bad as this is for the national health care crowd, it comes on the heels of Scott Brown’s shocking takeover of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. (Unofficial state motto: We want more government!)
We shall see how it all shakes out. But if I was a doctor and the patient was national health care, I’d gently advise a review of the ol’ life insurance policy.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Terminal condition
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Well, "I's d' byes" indeed!
Newfoundland is beautiful and the people ask -- politely -- that one stops complimenting them on their politeness. For all Newfoundland's beauty, well, I suppose one can't do surgery with a bottle of Screach for anaesthesia.
What are people without the means to pay for insurance supposed to do, just crawl off and die? Screw you adn your "I got mine, screw you" attitude!
The Canadians who come to the US and England and other countries for treatment are doing so because A: they have unlimited funds to pay for it, B:the Canadian doctors are leaving to become millionairs in the US; and C; they are trying to thaw out.
Duh.
If you've got millions, come on down, we put you first in line.
If you're poor, just die.
Socialist nations are the worst and most hypocritical about a two-tier system. Check out Cuba -- Dear Leader has his own hospital why Jose Cuban has to stand in line for a band-aid.
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