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.
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.
Hmmm,is this the same Canada that looks down its nose at all things American?
Gee, if Canadian upper class is jumping the lines, can you imagine what the John Kerry's and Heinz's will do???? hmmm, lets presently they get preferential insurance and health care for life, they get bennys and special stipends for life, so of course they would want to lead the other Socialists to the line of the clinic, by being first in line???? And being a man of the people, he would give up all his "priviledges"? When jellybeans fly outta a ducks $#$%^!!
Then with the greatest chutzpah and corlones in American history, try to ride into power with a Canadian system.
No one seems to have a problem with the U.S. health system from a quality aspect, its only the price which is driving this movement to socialization.
It seems to me that socialized medicine is throwing the baby out with the bathwater as there's no evidence that the same quality of care would be any cheaper, especially since no socialized system is yet able to provide the quality of care that the U.S. system does in order to do any sort of cost comparison.
Yet the same people who are pushing for this, are against any sort of meaningful tort reform, which puts major upwards pressure on healthcare prices, and are also against eliminating the layers of government-imposed regulations on healthcare professionals both within and without the government-funded "insurance" organizations. Not to mention the quagmire that is the FDA...
We used to have quality health care that was affordable, and it was before the government and the trial lawyers got involved. More government certainly isn't the solution.
I guess we have to wait for the official Canadian rebuttal to see how this is all Bush's fault.
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This is what Hillary Rodham Clinton nearly succeeded in thrusting upon the American Taxpayer back in the early 1990's.