[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Ronin]

Of course, anyone with wealth, including the Canadian limosene liberals, just hops on an Airplane and heads south for any needed medical care.

[CWOJackson]

Must be why the Canadian government now provides free medicinal pot.

Here, smoke this...smoke lots of it and you won't notice your problem.

[alrea]

Residents started proffering gifts when rumors leaked out of Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital a few weeks ago that the two neurosurgeons — of the four serving the city — were toying with moving their practice to the United States.

Come to New York. Mrs. Clinton has a plan to help these doctors.

[alrea]

Scarce resources are simply not being spent properly," Dr. Sriharan concluded, citing a shortage of nurses and anesthesiologists in the hospital where the single microscope available is old and breaking down.

This is right on page 12 of economics 101. Canadians ignore it. Europeans ignore it. Politicians promise it will be different. Democrats want it for you.

(this stuff is not supposed to be in the paper)

[crz]

Yup..in Canada its the Government and "free health" care thats the problem. In the USA its the Government and the lawyers who run it who are the problem. The insurance companies aint far behind either. The doctors I talk to say they'd sooner make less and be free of the fear of the scum sucking lawyers who follow the patients around to offer "free" money to them by suit. If we dont watch it we will get the socialized medicine stuck right down our throats because nobody will be able to afford the health insurances...which few can now. And those like Hilliary happen to be what?..or at least used to be what?

[randita]

Part of our health care system is already socialized to a degree in the form of Medicare.

Many doctors are limiting their Medicare patients and/or refusing to treat Medicare patients at all because the reimbursement for services is too low and the paperwork required involves a full time staaffer or two.

As of now, doctors in the U.S. have the right to determine who they will or will not treat. As more and more doctors refuse to participate in Medicare, Congress will probably enact laws which force them to make Medicare patients a certain % of their practice in order to keep their licenses.

[beavus]

Socialists and Democrats constantly fight the laws of economics, and they constantly lose.

[Maelstrom]

It is of particular note that the residents have attempted to resort to barter to compensate for the failures of socialism.

I could almost predict that such attempts to subvert the socialist system is illegal.

Consider, for example, if the residents had, instead of the items listed for barter...free food...free services...free vehicle...if they had instead set up an operating room for the two doctors.

Socialism has a fundamental flaw: It removes the power to allocate scarce resources from the point of economic impact where the decision must be made to a centralized point where it is impossible to have the correct information concerning all parties within an appropriate period of time in order to make the proper decision.

[DoctorMichael]

My Uber-Furher is helping an Anti-American, Bush-hating (....private comments he has made to me....) mainland Chinese MD get his 'equivalency' so that he can practice here in the US. We are being inundated with a lot of foreign doctors that want to come here.