Posted on 02/13/2011 5:30:58 AM PST by Tom Rounder
A Buffalo-based company is the latest to get in on the medical brokering scheme that’s gaining ground in Canada as lengthy wait times force more and more people south of the border for treatment.
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But where will we all go for health-care once the USA is socialized?
A strong Canadian dollar makes U.S. medicine even more attractive.
While driving through Newfoundland a few years ago, I heard radio public service announcements telling Canadians who suffered a traumatic accident (car crash, cut off arm, etc.) to go see their family doctor instead of going to the hospital emergency room. The reason was that the hospital emergency room had to close due to a lack of doctors. All of the emergency room doctors had made their maximum state-allowed income for the year so they had left for the USA where they could make more money until the new fiscal year began.
The phenomenon of Canadians travelling to the US for more timely access to specialized medical services has been in existence for at least fifteen years (that I know of personally).
The broader moral to this story, of course, is that anyone who naively believes that the level and timeliness of health care provided by socialized/nationalized system will compare current standards is in for a very rude, discomfiting and quite possibly lethal surprise.
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