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It makes me so happy to know that Karla Holmolka (Teale) gets better, faster health care than all law abiding taxpayers.
/sarc

[FormerACLUmember]

"Hey, like there's nothing wrong with our hosehead health care system, eh. Like we are both on a three year waiting list for alcohol detox, and this works for us!"

[APFel]

If our soldiers and cops had to wait as long as ordinary folks for care, Canada would fall short in both the peacekeeping and policing arenas.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaaaaaaaaa!

APf

[mmercier]

So there is queue jumping, who would have thought. The average Canadian has to be a lunatic to support a policy that taxes the average, retards their local economies, and allows a prisoner to receive more expedient access to a basic human service than the person paying for the service.

A man breaks his hand on your jaw while trying to jack your wallet. In custody his broken hand is immediately examined and treated. Your jaw is not broke, you go home. Days later you are in pain and can't chew food... You go into the queue for an MRI or Cscan... You pay to treat the man who tried to rob you, and while still paying have to wait for less expedient treatment of an involuntary wound you suffered at the hands of a criminal whose medical bill is already in the mail to you.

How quaint is this Eurosocialist lunacy..? How stupid is the citizen who pays for it...?

Words fail me, and I am sure the above writing is a mess.

Sorry.

[lilylangtree]

And this is the type of socialized medical care that the clintoons tried to stick the taxpayers for.

[Wolfie]

Don't try to tell me their top politicians don't get special treatment too. As for National Healthcare in the U.S., I'll go for it if I get the same level of care a member of Congress or Pro athlete gets.

[righttackle44]

I live in Phoenix, and we have a lot of Canadian winter visitors. I get to spend time visiting with many of Canadians when I stop at restaurants for breakfast.

One of the things I hear over and over is, they vacation here, but they're really concerned if they become really ill or need surgery and have to return to Canada for treatment if their condition isn't under some Canadian health service priority.

Makes me glad for our health care system, as imperfect as it is.

[Brilliant]

"threaten Canadians' equal access to treatment..."

Equal access to nothing is not very useful.

[Brilliant]

"I'm not suggesting that certain groups shouldn't be entitled to faster treatment."

This is their basic problem. They don't demand results. They are too willing to tolerate failure.

Why shouldn't the health care system have enough doctors, nurses, and technicians to provide fast health care to everyone who needs it? Every other industry does that.

[Paulus Invictus]

This describes Hillkary Care very well. If she runs and is elected, the US will soon resemble Canuckistan.

[traviskicks]

Supreme Court Strikes Down Quebec Medical Law (posted 6/9/05)

6/9/05 CTV News This article will definitely be added to the blog grouping 'Government Health'. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided to strike down Quebec's prohibition of using private insurance for services covered under medicare because the care was poor, the wait lengthy, and they realized that forcible socialized medicine was probably killing more Canadian citizens than it was saving. Just kidding! The last part wasn't actually in the news article, but should be. Zeliotis spent more than a year in pain, waiting for a hip replacement in 1997. He finally got a new hip but says he should have had the right to pay earlier for the surgery himself, even though it's illegal to pay for health services covered by medicare. He and Dr. Chaoulli (His doc) argued that spending months waiting for surgery amounts to a violation of their constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of the person. Of course, he's right. The Canadian government decided to destroy Zeliotis's life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in order to, ostensibly, provide life, liberty, and happiness to others. Don't be shocked. After all, we make a regular practice of this in the Untied States too. Phillippe Trudel, who's representing Zeliotis, told Canada AM ahead of the ruling that he didn't believe that a decision in his client's favour would lead to the destruction of the public health system. How can it? Zeliotis is still forced to waste his tax dollars on the public system or face jail time. All he is fighting for is his 'right' to pay extra for real care. This reminds me of the current US public school system. Parents are forced to pay taxes to the public schools, despite their decision to either homeschool, or pay extra to send their kids to private schools. However, before this recent Canadian court ruling, it would have been analogous to the US Government making it illegal for private schools or homeschoolers to even exist! If the Canadian health system is so great, why not let people choose to opt out of it? Not just pay extra for private care, but really opt out of it, and not be forced to pay any taxes towards something you won't use. The government will never let its citizens do this because the elitists know it would set off a stampede out of the government care. 
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of the miseries. 

- Winston Churchill

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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1117666821519_24/?hub=Canada

I had to find this story about the guy going to jail to get heart surgey. Someone needs to pass this on to rush. I can't wait to write about it.