Posted on 08/29/2009 8:01:48 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
The 20/20 co-anchor summed up the importance of a profit motive for the health care industry to function adequately as he recounted that in Canada, private veterinary clinics provide health care for animals much more rapidly than the government-run system provides similar services for human patients:
JOHN STOSSEL: You want innovation and fast treatment? That often comes from people pursuing profit. And you see that in Canada because, even here, there is one area where they do offer easy access to cutting edge technology-
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE VETERINARIAN: -CT Scan, endoscopy, thoracoscopy, laporoscopy-
STOSSEL: -available all the time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE VETERINARIAN: -24 hours, seven days a week-
STOSSEL: Patients rarely wait.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE VETERINARIAN: If I see a patient that’s torn a crusciate ligament in that patient’s knee, we can generally have that patient scheduled within probably a week.
STOSSEL: But you have to bark or meow to get that kind of treatment. Want a CT Scan in Canada? Private vet clinics say they can get a dog in the next day. For people, the waiting list is a month.
ABC probably regrets ever hiring this guy, but he does too well to be fired. If this were NBC, he would have been fired long ago.
Everyone has GOT to be in DC on 9/12!!! If you have a local tea aprty, attend!
I can’t believe he’s going to last much longer at Enchanted media stronghold ABC.In the media/left hive , ideology trumps any popularity or revenue benefit Mr. Stossl’s presence may have.
I was driving home from the Tea Party Express send-off rally in Sacramento yesterday, with my dog in the car when I realized
my dog would have better health care than I would under ObamaCare.
MY DOG GETS BETTER HEALTHCARE!
HEALTH CARE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOL TO IMPOSE SOCIALISM & COMMUNISM BECAUSE IT CAN CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIFE.
It's in our future if we can't stop the madness.
Stossel Rules!
Don’t you love the liberal’s responding that Obama isn’t proposing Canada’s system?
Frickin idiots refuse to recognize that providing care to an additional 50 million people, with no additional doctors, and “no additional cost” MEANS RATIONED HEALTHCARE!!!
Not to mention hastening one's (eventual) death. See Death Panel for clarification. It's right there on page 812, half the way down...HR 2300 Title 4, Section 12, Part A, Subsection ii - DEATH PANELS
Kudos to the sharp-eyed Freeper Haiku Guy for finding this.
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I too am surprised ABC tolerates him.
But, the other 99% of the ABCNNBCBS MSM refuses to use, admit, or talk to the truth.
I'm not. Whistle-blower Stossel is directly responsible for any good ratings they get.
Your argument assumes that the 50M presently aren’t receiving health care.
Which rather conflicts with the other conservative talking point that anybody who really needs health care is already getting it.
My argument is that one cannot simultaneously claim that everyone is receiving at least adequate health care in America and that implementing Obama’s proposals would overwhelm the system.
One or the other could be true, but not both. If you contend extending health care to all will bankrupt the country, this can only be because 50M presently aren’t receiving adequate health care.
If you contend extending health care to all will bankrupt the country, this can only be because Obama’s plan is about control, not healthcare.
Look at the pricetag!
Where is that money going and why are all his union supporters exempt from the gov’t run components?
Consider the cost of the bureaucracy alone to clumsily run by fiat what the market has been running for decades.
California alone has more people than Canada. And Obummer wants a system exerting control over all 50 states simultaneously?
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