Doctors Eying the U.S.: Canada Is Sick About It

NY Times ^ | 10/17/03 | CLIFFORD KRAUSS

[friendly]

Clear evidence of your future health care if the democrats have their way. Needless to say the politically connected rats would go to the head of the line: "Both doctors said they were fed up with a two-tier medical system in which those with connections go to the head of the line for surgery."

And the Canadian situation must be horrific if neurosurgeons want to come to the US. Anybody who follows healthcare issues as I do knows how bad the malpractice crisis is in a number of states. Neurosurgery is closing down in Florida, West Virginia, and Nevada, for example.

[Bon mots]

This problem has a very simple and time honored solution.
Socialists and Commies everywhere come to this juncture, and the solution is very simple and effective.

[friendly]

The Berlin Wall is a perfect example of socialism solutions to health care (and every other aspect of society they screw up).

[SubMareener]

Lucky for us, Hitlery's Health Care would have made such bribes illegal! No doctor would have been allowed to accept other than the government approved compensation for services! In fact, doctors could be jailed for performing services without receiving compensation!

[friendly]

Lucky for us, Hitlery's Health Care would have made such bribes illegal! No doctor would have been allowed to accept other than the government approved compensation for services! In fact, doctors could be jailed for performing services without receiving compensation!

Your comments are exactly correct and give a crystal clear picture of the future the rats envision for us! BTW, this is essentially the picture in the socialist paradise to the north.

[11B3]

Having spent three years in Berlin back in the '80s, I can't agree more. Going to the East side was like going back 50 or 60 years in time.

[milemark]

Does this mean that socialized medicine is not the panacea of all wonderfulness after all? Gasp! Say it isn't so!

[Agnes Heep]

The Canadians abandoned national defense in favor of health care. Now they have neither.

[lainde]

Bump!!!

[friendly]

Having spent three years in Berlin back in the '80s, I can't agree more. Going to the East side was like going back 50 or 60 years in time.

You are more correct than you realize. Visiting Canada, I found many aspects of the health care system to be stuck in time at 1975 or so: completely outdated.

Needless to say the socialist politicians and leading bureaucrats bypass the cr*ppy system they impose on the general population via such Four Star facilities as the National Defense Hospital in Ottawa and the corruption the two neurosurgeons complain about in the article.

[friendly]

We CAN'T WAIT for HillaryCare!

Meantime her winged monkey army of trial lawyers is doing everything in their power to f**k up the US system.

[friendly]

The Canadians abandoned national defense in favor of health care. Now they have neither.

Brilliant observation.

[hotpotato]

Canada gets our movie industry and we get their doctors. Sounds like a good deal to me :-)

I was watching an interview with Lance Armstrong and his take on the French about earlier-in-his-career hostilities towards him stemming from his cancer. Their attitude about cancer is, as he describes, almost like a contagious death... a terrible terrible illness that people don't survive, something they don't talk about. That attitude comes from a society where hope of surviving cancer is low because they do not have the medical care and cancer expertise we have here in the U.S.

[friendly]

Yes, and if you think health care is expensive, wait until it becomes free!

[Tax-chick]

Can someone explain why all the doctors are from India and the Middle East? Doesn't Canada have medical schools ... or don't Canadians atttend them?

[dasboot]

Both doctors said they were fed up with a two-tier medical system in which those with connections go to the head of the line for surgery.

What? Y'mean we can't all get beach-front property?

Perhaps a bloody purge will set things aright for a while...until the next bloody purge.

[mathluv]

I guess Dick Armey's new saying will be 'People who give up freedom for health care have neither' instead of 'People who give up freedom for security have neither.'

[lafroste]

Can someone explain why all the doctors are from India and the Middle East? Doesn't Canada have medical schools ... or don't Canadians atttend them?

The answer is simple: People from these areas who have the drive to escape them also have the drive to excel in western academia (which is not that hard anymore). If you knew them in school, you would not have liked them much. They were dull. They didn't go out and party all the time, didn't get involved in crusades or causes, and hardly dated at all. They studied. For some odd reason they thought that if you go to a university you should study. Very odd.

[Graybeard58]

Dammit folks, I read this article and had a lot of really witty things to say about Hillary. Only to find that they were already said! Just can't wait for old Graybeard can you?

[rock58seg]

Another example of how health care would deteriorate, is the present state of our VA hospitals. A second shameful example is the broken healthcare contracts with our military retirees. I am not a recipient of either of these "benefits", so I don't think my comments are selfserving.