Posted on 07/12/2004 12:37:27 PM PDT by RetiredArmy
Excellent post. Why in the world would anyone want to import such a disaster here?
If its THAT bad in Canada, can you imagine the horror that would result by trying to apply such a system here? Our demographics are quite a bit different.
Listen, socialized medicine is defintely not the answer but we need our RNC boys and girls to come up with a solution before the voting public without insurance becomes the majority. It is happening fast. Once it does happen then the libs win with their rhetoric and scare tactics. We need to fix it before that happens.
Be nice to Canadians, if we adopt their socialized medicine where will they go to get treated?
Where will all of the Canadian Doctors that moved to the U.S. move to? For that matter where will all of the U.S. Doctors move to?
I thought Mr. Kerry was against Outsourcing?
(Airlines will have great specials "Round trip see your Doctor Flights to India" coming to an airport near you)
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Of course, the Cannuks better talk down their broken down system as much as they can, or else there won't be anywhere they can come to for medical help.
While most people can understand the need to avoid socialized health care, the elitist liberals don't care. They just want the government to control it. And this is the ultimate goal of these elitist liberals...total governmental control over every aspect of our lives. They just want the power, but their useful idiot stooges actually believe life is better when the government controls everything. This is the monster we are up against. If we are to retain any control over our lives we have to make sure they never succeed.
Just what our Canadian friends have told us, "a wonderful system, as long as you don't get sick".
Just today on a mailing list I'm on, a venomous liberal was writing and complaining about the PUBS that don't want government health care and that Canadian health care couldn't be THAT bad. Thanks for this link, cause I just forwarded it in to the list. Let's see how all the rabid Bush bashers attack it.
They still want it and nothing you will say will make them change their minds.
Mexico, where else? You could relocate the entire medical industry to northern Mexico. Just think of the economic boom that would hit the area.
Why? Because scummy little Socialist/Marxist control freaks like Clinton, Kerry, Dean and Kennedy are not content with just screwing up their own lives. They won't be able to feel "normal" until every one is reduced to their own corrupt level. Socialized medicine has nothing to do with fairness or efficiency but everything to do with raw power and control.
The Democrats would love to make voters dependent on them for their health care. They see how well its worked for the Liberals in Canada and they're green with envy. Its not about "free" health care, its about power for the Left.
He told me that his life and business would be much better if he did not have to pay up to 50% taxes on all his income! He said he could hire more employees, have a larger and better home for his family if they wanted it, but he could not because he had to give the German government 50% taxes on his income to support social programs. He hated socialized medicine. Sit home on your butt and get free medical care. Even back then, he told me that getting in to see a specialize doctor took weeks or months to do.
I agree with much of this post, although it paints perhaps an overly bleak picture. Depending on which province you live in and what type of medical care you need, you can have a very good experience with our system or a very bad one. Heart attack victims generally get good immediate care. Some provinces have good cancer treatment systems. Overall, though, there is much room for improvement. The shortage of family physicians, due to the low-ball rates they are given for seeing patients, is very real in my province, certainly. For sure, don't do what we have done, but learn from it. There has to be a happy medium somewhere.
Sand: if you need the actual link, go to Newsmax.com, about 1/2 way down the page and you will see the article. Click on it and it opens to the page in the publication in Canada where this is posted. If you need it for proof.
Hmmm,is this the same Canada that looks down its nose at all things American?
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