Posted on 03/01/2016 6:48:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama began peddling his national healthcare system. On more than one occasion, he pointed to Canada and the United Kingdom as examples of a workable national healthcare system.
When I first heard him point to them, I instantly thought of Rachel, a work acquaintance who lived and worked in the United Kingdom. She was experiencing abdominal pains and having problems eating for months before England’s National Health Service doctors finally diagnosed the problem to be her gall bladder. The doctor said it needed to be removed. However, from the time they wrote the order to remove her gall bladder to the time it was finally removed was 7 long excruciating months. If you’ve ever had gall bladder problems, you will know just how painful and sometimes debilitating it can be but it took England’s National Health Service system 7 months to wade through the red tape, approvals, scheduling, etc.
I don’t know about you, but that’s not an example of a workable healthcare system that I would point to.
Since that time, the United Kingdom’s NHS has been steadily cutting more and more covered services or how much they will pay out for services that are covered. The same is true in Canada, only some are blaming the push for green energy for the cuts to Canada’s national healthcare system.
One concerned Canadian, Vance Petersen wrote to the Windsor Star, pointing the finger at green energy for what’s happening to Canadian Health Care. His letter reads in part:
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The epitome of fascism.
I unfortunately ended up in the hospital twice in Dec. I went to a highly regarded suburban DC hospital. The internal hospital transport system lost/forgot about me in the bowels of the hospital after a test. I had to jump off a gurney and try to find my way to my room wearing nothing but those skimpy robes. My care during the next visit was so bad I signed myself out of the hospital AMA (Against Medical Advise). They kept testing me for conditions I don’t have. How many times do you have to tell people you are not diabetic before they stop testing you for it. I have a serious heart condition and I can tell you first hand hospitals today are completely different then they were 10 years ago when I had my first cardiac surgery. Stay healthy everyone because hospitals are very very scary these days.
I used to stay at a B&B in Guadalajara while there on business. Lots of Canadians stayed there while getting plastic surgery at a nearby hospital. I would see the at breakfast with their faces all bandaged up. They said it was 25% of the cost of having it done in Canada. Guess they went home happy.
“Even Tijuana.”
Have you ever been to Tijuana? Used to be a good place to get a tuck and roll job for your hot rod, but now you have to dodge the dead animals in the gutters when you park. It’s incredible that such a $hit hole could exist a dozen miles from San Diego!
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Safer than Compton.
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