Posted on 10/04/2007 5:30:31 AM PDT by scooter2
This is a common story in every nation with socialized medicine — cost-control through scarcity and rationing with government bureaucrats deciding who gets care. How can you honestly not like such a system?
The poor losers who can’t afford to travel to these health centers will receive the best care a bureaucracy can offer. Think Social Security, US Postal Service, DMV, etc.
Thank you for making this distinction. It drives me NUTS when I hear that such-and-such percentage of U.S. citizens are without "health care", when what they really don't have is "health insurance." These are two very different things. Trust me---those without health insurance DO get care.
Well, as long as you "feel bad" about it...... Agree, when Hillary nationalizes health care here and the advancements stagnate, doctors bail out and the system atrophies, where do we start sending people?
At what age will these parents break the news to their children that they are actually US citizens? Or will they just keep that bit of shame buried deep in the family Vault o’ Secrets?
Actually, it is a rather sneeky bit of imperial expansionsim. These American kids will grow up and have babies of their own. Several generations later, half the town has American roots.
At a strategically optimal time, the news gets let out that many, if not most, of a population is actually American or related to Americans... a wave of nostalgia erupts, kind of like a St Patrick’s Day (but without all that green dye) on steroids. The Stars and Stripes starts appearing all over the neighborhoods, folk start picking favorite NFL teams to cheer for.
Who knows where it ends up?
Well, as long as you "feel bad" about it......
Agree, when Hillary nationalizes health care here and the advancements stagnate, doctors bail out and the system atrophies, where do we start sending people?
Well, at least the Canuckistanis have free health care...
In Canada everybody has insurance, everybody pays, but not everybody gets care.
Canada not only doesn't have UNIVERSAL health care, there are treatments that are simply unavailable for anyone in that country.
Hillary Clinton promises to reduce our medical support system to that of Canada.
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What rates are being charged by US hospitals for these cases transferred by the Canadian socialized medicine system? And who’s paying? If the Canadian socialized medicine system can pay uninsured rates at US hospitals, they’ve got plenty of money to expand their own facilities, and just are doing so.
Wait a minute. Even at age 72 I’m occasionally asked for “place of birth”. What are the LEGAL ramifications for these “Canadian” kids? Being born in the USA makes them citizens of the US, not Canada. What does their birth certificates say is the land of their birth. Oh, this could be a problem, but for who, in which country???
Don’t forget the Canadian MP and friend of Bill Clinton who recently went to California for her cancer treatment.
Over 40 years ago, I gave birth to my daughter in Calgary. We went to the hospital that was about 3 blocks from our apartment - and it was a ‘women only’ hospital. I was sent across town to have her because I was not ‘far enough along’ and they did not have a bed. Sounds like it is just getting worse - no surprise!
Will the hospital bill the Canadian gov’t?
I was in Minnesota for a bagpipe competition a few years ago and another bagpipe player came up and was listening to our daughter warm up. We started talking..
Turned out that he was a doctor from Canada that had just moved to the states. He said all the younger doctors are moving south. Pay in Canada is low for doctors and much, much greener on our side. He also said that the average age of doctors in Canada is in the mid-sixties. They are probably just now really feeling the crunch of the younger doctors fleeing to the states.
A child born with at least one Canadian citizen as a parent is a Canadian citizen. If he is born in the US he will have a dual US/Canadian citizenship.
They should have gone to Cuba as Canada is on good terms with them and besides according the democrat spokesman M Moore they have the best health care in the world. Besides look at the benefit for the child, he would be a Cuban citizen where he can also get world class education, sounds like a deal to me.
My friend who was an English citizen until she married her husband an American and moved here some 30+ years ago. Her mother, still in England, needed cataract surgery on both eyes back in 1991. She was legally blind, and fast going down hill fast. She was told that they would schedule her for surgery in November of 1995. Needless to say my friend brought her Mum to America and had the surgery here.
Love that socialized medicine
NOT!
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