Posted on 02/01/2010 9:10:33 PM PST by Nachum
Nov. 13, 2009 - Premier Danny Williams is photographed at at the Newfoundland legislature in St. John's, Nl.
Newfoundland Premier leaves province for undisclosed location south of the borderThe heart and soul of Newfoundland politics is in for repair – and it's not in his home province or even in Canada, for that matter.
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is scheduled for heart surgery in the United States, a move that throws into question his province's and his nation's health-care system.
A source confirmed to The Globe and Mail late Monday that Mr. Williams has left St. John's for an undisclosed destination in the U.S. to have heart surgery later in the week.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Guess he doesn’t want to wait six months for surgery.
If Obamacare passes, we’ll have the same stories of our elected masters traveling to exotic nations for quality health care.
Does anyone in Canada get a clue from this? I doubt it.
Maybe he didn't HAVE the six months to wait. But, many of his constituents don't, either. Well, it sucks to be them.
True stories: I worked for two companies 15-25 years ago, one of which was self-insured. The larger, self-insured company transferred a VP from Canada to the US. When he arrived, they hauled him off in an ambulance straight from the airport and he had heart surgery a day later. The other,smaller company transferred one of the original employees of the company to the US. Same thing happened. I learned all that I needed to learn about government-run health care from those two incidents.
Good thing for him he got sick before dems got their way.
What, he didn’t go to Cuba?
I thought this was an old thread about Bill Clinton’s love child.
Wasn’t Danny Williams the name of Slick Willie’s love child with the black hooker? I thought he had been spirited off to private school in Australia. Maybe he made it over to NZ.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Hey Canada, the truth hurts sometimes.
A Canadian MP went to California for treating her breast cancer and the mother of quintuplets in western Canada was sent to a hospital in Montana for her delivery as there were not enough NICU beds in the province to accommodate the babies. See a trend here?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.