[DLfromthedesert]

And who are these morons that argue for "single payer" healthcare?

[neutrino]

My, my. It seems that nationalized health insurance isn't a panacea after all. Who woulda thunk it?

[GeronL]

health card?? whats up with that?? Why would a country with FREE healthcare paid for by government for ALL need health cards????

Makes no sense....

Socialism... fails every time.

[Steely Tom]

"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules."

Canadians are so funny!

(steely)

[BenLurkin]

Maybe the Canadians will use this as an excuse to require all their health care recipients to get microchip IDs injected under their skin?

[dts32041]

Probably only spoke English also and wasn't sure of the french instructions.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Rouslene Augustin, administrator at the St-Andre clinic, said the man didn't appear to have any urgent symptoms when he came to the clinic.

Probable because his appendix had already ruptured!

This is the wonderful health care system that Hitlery wants to shove down our throats.

The major problem with liberalism is that they really believe that if EVERYBODY had sh#tty healthcare we would be better off than if most have good to great and a few have poor or none healthcare.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Socialism works! Ask any Indians!

[Lancey Howard]

Posted by Lancey Howard
On News/Activism 11/20/2003 3:15:45 AM EST with 3 comments

The New York Post ^ | 11-19-2003 | Richard Johnson
November 19, 2003 -- DAN Aykroyd is no fan of the bureaucratic bungling and cut-rate care of socialized medicine. "One place you don't want to get sick is Quebec," the Canadian actor advised us after a screening of Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions.
"It's all socialized. Believe me, you don't want to go to a hospital there."

[Libertina]

If everyone is covered, why do they need to show cards?

[Libertina]

"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules."
Subhuman Government-drone Quote of the Week

[ampat]

"If this guy was an emergency case, we would accept him if he had his card or not," she said.

I guess all the competent doctors have headed south, otherwise they could have diagnosed his emergency.

[Petronski]

Oddly enough, I can imagine this happening at one of America's lesser socialized medicine parlors, perhaps an ER in a delapidated inter-city neighborhood.

Tragic.

[Cicero]

The victim was named Gerald Augustin.

The bureaucrat who turned him away was named Rouslene Augustin.

Not his father or his uncle, I hope. But I wouldn't put it past a French bureaucrat.

[Brett66]

"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules."

Maybe they thought he was probably pining for the fjords.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I've ended 5 or 6 "Socialized Medicine" arguments with Leftist dolts by throwing out one sentence, for which there is no response:

"I'm against socialized medicine for one reason and one reason only: I've been to the DMV."

I doubt I've ever converted anyone with that, but it's amusing how it shuts them up.

[Keith in Iowa]

That's the same health care system that the Democrats want for us...

[Mike Darancette]

Rouslene Augustin, administrator at the St-Andre clinic, said the man didn't appear to have any urgent symptoms when he came to the clinic.

If the guy didn't see a doctor then how did they know that the man had no urgent symptoms, after all it was an emergency clinic.?

But in the world of Socialized Medicine receptionists make medical decisions.

[nutmeg]

"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules."

Unbelievable ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[RegT]

Here in Alberta, we have been trying to reform our health-care system to include various user pay services but have encountered nothing but obstruction from the federal gov't. Our current premier, Ralph Klein, has been very good on most things but is reluctant to take a stand on this. When the 'boomers' start getting sick, we are all up the creek big time.