Sick Canadian Should Have Gone To Costa Rica?

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Remember Danny Williams, the premier of a Canadian province who ditched Canada-care in favor of having heart surgery done in Miami? Lucky for him he didn't speak first with Katty Kay. She might have convinced him he'd be better off in Costa Rica . . .

On today's Meet the Press, BBCer Kay mentioned that in some sort of world rankings, the US has the 37th highest quality of care, "just above Cuba, just below Costa Rica."

View video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Can she possibly believe this bull? Ping to Today show list.

[BlessedBeGod]

And just what criteria did she use?

[chiefqc]

I guess mac daddy has his willing women all over the world.

I wonder what her price was.

[hinckley buzzard]

That ranking has been around for a long time. No one seems to know what it means if anything. Some UN bureaucrat put it together one day. Yeah, if I have a serious heart problem I'm sure going to Costa Rica to have surgery. Thanks, I'll just take my chances with Cleveland Clinic up the road here a piece.

[La Lydia]

What an idiot. Who in the world believes that Cuba has as good a health care system as we do? These journalists are doing the old, “Who ya gonna believe, me, or your own lying eyes?” bit and expect people to buy into their blatant lies. Do they think there is no Internet and we haven’t read the horror stories about socialized medicine in the UK and Canada? Our system is better. It is superior. We need to do some changing around the edges to make it more accessible and affordable. But we don’t need to destroy and replace it with a failed, inferior experiment.

[Psycho_Bunny]

UNsense

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Face fact, my follow Freepers, this low ranking of US health care is right spot on. Do you want proof?
Just check the large airports all over the country. Crowds of people , wheel chair bound, leaning on canes, the halt and the blind, mothers with sick babies, people with personal oxygen tanks, all frantically trying to leave the United States in order to seek life saving medical care.
I weep at the plight of ailing Americans, braving the dangers of the sea, trying in rickety boat to reach Cuba, and have their ills properly treated. It is truly shameful.
If you believe ANY of the above, seek treatment ASAP!

[SteveAustin]

I’ve seen this woman a few times on Meet the Press. She fills the ditzy socialist woman chair that is normally occupied by Rachel Maddow or Doris Kearns Plagiarist.

[ozzymandus]

Anti-American commies on Meet the Press? Who’da thunk it?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A bit of Googling reveals that in claiming that the “quality” of health care in the US ranks only 37th in the world, Kay was citing a UN study that takes into account factors utterly unrelated to the quality of care such as “financial fairness.” Cato Institute has an excellent deconstruction of the study here:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9259

[darkwing104]

Looks like Helen Thomas is going have some competition...

[BlessedBeGod]

Thanks.

[freedom1st]

I believe Katty Kay is in competition with Mika “Bubbles” Brezinkski for the ditsiest reporter at NBC.

[SmokingJoe]

Another ugly, loony left moron from the BBC.
So what's new?
I suppose its no use pointing out to this propagandist from the BBC that this “quality of health care” rankings has been thoroughly discredited, and has nothing to do with health care, but more to do with murder rates, car accident rates etc.
Th US health care system is by far the best on the planet. When I lived in the UK, time after time, the Sun newspaper and other tabloids raised money, to send some seriously sick British kid to America for surgery, which they could not obtain in Britain.

[gusopol3]

Egregious stupidity should be as dangerous to someone’s career as perceived racism; if Jimmy the Greek got the heave-ho after one outrageous statement, this was a 9.6 on the turn out the lights scale.

[SmokingJoe]

Some UN bureaucrat put it together one day

It's as reliable as them "climate change" figures from the UN’s IPCC. Both are equally fraudulent, made-up figures.

This is reality:
WHOm Are They Kidding?
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9259

[Clara Lou]

I have a story to share about my family's experience with our health care system:
About 5 weeks ago, my 33 y.o. son had a massive stroke-- paralyzed his right side completely. The EMT's had him at the hospital in less than 20 minutes. ON STAFF and IN THE HOSPITAL of this Texas community of about 140,000 people, was a doctor, a product of the Mayo clinic and one of the few neurosurgeons in the US trained and qualified to perform a procedure to go in via the arteries to physically remove the blood clot which the various CT scans located in my son's brain.
The doctor was able to remove the complete clot on the FIRST TRY. At 3:30 in the afternoon, my son was completely paralyzed over his entire right side from head to toe. At 5:45 he was speaking and moving his right leg and arm and asking for some food. The next day, he was printing his name. The only telltale symptom of his stroke was a tremble in his right hand. At his release (after 4 days in the hospital) the tremble was gone, and he walked down out of the hospital and climbed into his pickup truck. He missed 10 days of work, all told.

I live deep in Central Texas. It was a great place to be the day my son had that stroke. God is good, so good.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

What a wonderful, heart-warming, important story. I’m so glad your son is doing so well. It speaks a library-full of volumes about the quality of care in America. I wish Katty Kay could see this.

[Clara Lou]

This is not the first time my son has been blessed by our medical care. He was born with a heart defect which has required two open-hearts, one at age 4, one at age 15. Had he been born a few years earlier, he might never have survived.
As to this procedure, if we had had to wait on medication to break up the clot, he might now be in a rehab hospital followed by a nursing home. (We’re all working folk, too young for retirement.)
I have lived to see miracles.