Posted on 01/15/2019 6:28:49 AM PST by Califreak
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul plans to undergo hernia surgery at a private hospital in Canada because of injuries he suffered when a neighbor tackled him while he was doing yard work at his Kentucky home.
The Republican lawmaker is scheduled to cross the border for outpatient surgery scheduled sometime during the week of Jan. 21 at a hospital in Thornhill, Ontario, his attorneys said in a recent filing in Paul's lawsuit against Rene Boucher, who attacked Paul while the senator was doing yard work.
The surgery is related to the 2017 attack, the court document says. Boucher pleaded guilty to assaulting a member of Congress and was sentenced to 30 days in prison. Federal prosecutors are appealing the sentence, saying 21-months would have been appropriate.
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Rand Oaul is going to Canada to have surgery?Whats the problem with the surgeons here?
That’s a new spin.Most snowbirds come to the states for their health care.
If a Trumper assaulted a Demonrat senator, he would be in jail for 20 years.
I wonder if it is security related. Don’t want any strange docs ordering all the interns out and then Rand Paul mysteriously dies.....like what happened with Seth Rich!
See post 16
It is the best PRIVATE surgery hospital/clinic in the possibly the world for this type of hernia procedure.
CBS clearly wants you to think that he thinks Canada’s health care system is superior.
Well, of course the Canucks granted some waivers.
You think their Neo-aristocracy wanna deal with the unwashed rabble *that would be you and I* when they need medical care any more than our Neo-aristocracy would? You think their elites are just gonna take a number and wait in line like they expect the rest of their subjects to? Will ours, when they ram single payer down our throats and demand that we swallow and say thank you when they’re done?
Interesting that Dr. Paul should choose to go to Canada for surgery when we are purported to have the best health care in the world here.
Thanks for the info! I’m still wondering why, since Paul has access to some of the best medicos and facilities in the country, why there? Is that facility superior to the best of what’s available in the US?
He knows that there are too many leftist in the U.S. hospitals who want to kill him.
My understanding is that yes, it is the best—Doctors come from all over the world to train there—and as the best it is superior to whatever is available else where.
It also, in many ways, lacks the institutional hospital feel, and given the sort of surgery, has been made to feel vaguely like a men’s club.
Cool! Well, I’m bummed we don’t have the equivalent in the US.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Paul.
………..I’m facing a third operation for the same hernia in the same place.
It was performed by an Austin doctor both previous times and then lasted about 2 years both times before symptoms returned.
So, “WHO does the operation?” is a big deal. In my case, there was absolutely no choice to perform asap because it got so bad I couldn’t get up off the couch and fix myself a sandwich.
30 days in jail for assaulting a senator.
What a miscarriage of justice.
Toronto is only about an hour’s drive from Buffalo—the hospital is about as accessible to the U.S. as possible without actually being in the U.S.
You need government permission to do start any business in the USA...
I know of a pastor that got a hip replacement done in Taiwan. He had done missions work there, they wanted him back and came up with the airfare and a place for him to stay for 30 days. He needed to come up with the 5,000(USD) to pay for the operation and after care, which he did and then the church collected that up too... Similar surgery in the US was $200k all in and no insurance coverage because he was still “ambulatory”.
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-surgeon-fined-3k-for-removing-kidney-he-thought-was-tumor/1700380797
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