Posted on 04/07/2019 3:26:01 PM PDT by grundle
Supporters of free universal health care can’t explain why U.K. citizen Mick Jagger had his life saving heart surgery in the U.S.
I’ll explain it.
There is a tradeoff between time and money.
When something is “free,” it often comes with the “cost” of having to wait in line.
Mick Jagger knew that he could either get “free” heart surgery in the U.K. (where he is a citizen), at the cost of having to wait on a waiting list, or, he could get the surgery immediately by paying out of his own pocket to have his surgery in the U.S.
And he’s not the only one to understand this tradeoff between time and money.
When Robert Bourassa, the premier of Quebec, Canada, needed cancer treatment, he came to the United States and paid for his health care with his own money.
And when Canadian Liberal MP Belinda Stronach needed cancer treatment, she also came to the United States and paid for her health care with her own money.
And when Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams needed heart surgery, he, too, came to the United States and paid for his health care with his own money.
Many liberals in the U.S. want the U.S. to adopt the same kind of universal health care that exists in Canada and the U.K. So here’s my question to those liberals: If the U.S. does adopt such a system, then where are the celebrities and politicians from other countries going to go when they need life saving health care?
If the U.S. does adopt such a system, then where are the celebrities and politicians from other countries going to go when they need life saving health care?
The same place the celebrities and politicians of the U.S
will go...the head of the line.
Bahamas. All of the expert docs will head outta Dodge and set up clinics for the rich and famous for mucho cash upfront.
Do you think that bezos or gates would let money or laws stand in the way of their needed heart operation? Hell no.
You also get what you pay for.
Because in the UK, Mick would have gone in to a NHS hospital for a heart valve replacement, but would have come out with boobs, and a sex change operation.
Mick has been a Tory for a long time.
Dr’s in the USA make about double the rest of the world.
I have observed over the years that celebrities and wealthy do not necessarily have better outcomes than ordinary citizens. Our personal situation is indicative of this. My husband had a very nasty rectal cancer and was given top-notch medical care. It was unbelievable what they did for him.
I have observed over the years that celebrities and wealthy do not necessarily have better outcomes than ordinary citizens. Our personal situation is indicative of this. My husband had a very nasty rectal cancer and was given top-notch medical care. It was unbelievable what they did for him.
I have observed over the years that celebrities and wealthy do not necessarily have better outcomes than ordinary citizens. Our personal situation is indicative of this. My husband had a very nasty rectal cancer and was given top-notch medical care. It was unbelievable what they did for him.
Because Obamacare is better. And next year we’re going to get better Obamacare for our little friends who are bum rushing the border and all those poor deserving refugees from Eastern Shitholio.
So sorry abut the triplicate.
The Insurance Companies in America can read their doom in the Democrat platform. Then we start to report to our district Commissar for health care and operations.
actually there are plenty of private hospitals in GB where one can have health care now for a price.
Socialized health care is an actuary scam. If the average survivability rate for liver disease, for example, is 6 months, they will make you wait for 3 years where only 1% survive. The 1% will praise socialism for their new liver. Meanwhile, the other 99% won’t complain.
They CAN explain it.
But they don’t want to.
“You also get what you pay for.”
Often you don’t.
It’s not only the waiting lists. The QUALITY of the medial care in the US is far superior to Canada and Britain. That’s because we have a (somewhat) capitalist-based medical care system.
INGSOC believes 1 + 1 = 3. Stay where you are till Ministry Officials judge you.
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