A few years ago there was a Spanish cruise ship that would sail from Ireland and once in international waters, would offer abortions.
That was done of course because abortion was illegal in Ireland.
I don’t see why some enterprising medical company couldn’t do the same for medical care. Pick up patients in port and sail 12 miles offshore to perform what the death panel won’t authorize.
There could also be an “offshore” insurance to cover it for those that want it.
The United States doesn’t have jurisdiction over a Panamanian registered cruise/hospital ship in international waters.
Laws and regulations make business opportunities for the enterprising just like prohibition did for Capone. This however would be perfectly legal.
It is already underway. Caiman Island General Hospital type plans are under way (there is no such entity by the way - just an example). Of course, they will try to make that illegal too.
Until they are rendered completely and permanently incapable of further resistance or intermeddling, the left will seek to coerce and to kill at their whim. They are not whole people. The exercise of tyranny slakes the thirst of their inferiority as persons.
People are flying from Europe and the U.S. to India, where the lower price of their medical procedures more than pays for the trip—and even the lavish hotels and meals, etc.
I think the Panamanian ship idea is going to happen about two hours after Obamacare starts actually impinging on medical care on land.
That was a nice post. I think you may be on to something there. Very astute of you...
My only tweak would be that I am not convinced that insurance is the answer. If that offshore ship charged cash, it’s my take that the services would remain more competitive.
Yes it would be harder to come up with the cash, but that being taken into the equation, there would be a lot of pressure on the cruise ship medical provider, to charge prices the public could pay.
You can bet the farm, that the federal government would call that black market health care and either try to destroy the reputation of the provider, or make it illegal to “protect the public”.
We would likely have to fight that federal response. If it was 12 miles off the coast, I’m not sure if they could. I just know they would try to eliminate this option.
They probably couldn’t stop those on the ship from doing what they wanted, but they could outlaw us from traveling to it by boat or helicopter from our waters or airspace. And they could play games with our ability to transfer funds to pay.
It would present an interesting dynamic, and it’s definitely something worth pursuing should this monstrosity pass.