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Rand Paul Heading To Canada, Land Of Universal Health Care, For Surgery
Yahoo ^ | 1/15 | Mary Huffenpuss

Posted on 01/15/2019 9:52:39 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

Ardent foe of socialized medicine Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is planning to undergo hernia surgery this month in Canada, where medical care is publicly funded and universally provided.

Paul, who is not covered by the Canadian health care system, will pay out of pocket for the operation, an aide told Politico. The surgery is set to take place at Shouldice Hernia Hospital in Ontario, a “world renowned hospital,” the senator’s spokeswoman Kelsey Cooper said.

Information about the surgery, scheduled for Jan. 21, was revealed in court papers in Paul’s civil lawsuit against neighbor Rene Boucher, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

According to Paul, the surgery — which will cost as much as $8,000 — is linked to injuries he suffered in 2017 when Boucher attacked him as he mowed his lawn. Boucher pleaded guilty last year to attacking Paul in a dispute over yard care and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

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TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: buildthefence; canada; daca; dreamact; dreamers; kentucky; randpaul; reneboucher
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s true, people have tried to kill Rand Paul twice in the last two years.

He’s suffered a lot. If he wants to get his hernia fixed at a HERNIA HOSPITAL anywhere in the world, a person would have to be super petty to have a problem with that.


21 posted on 01/15/2019 10:14:59 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Responsibility2nd

Biggest word in that identical article? OUTPATIENT surgery. LOL!


22 posted on 01/15/2019 10:16:43 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Yahoo ^ | 1/15| Mary Huffenpuss

Life in high-school must have been brutal for that girl.


23 posted on 01/15/2019 10:18:59 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Before throwing Rand Paul under the bus, consider that the article makes this about the difference between private medicine and social medicine. That's a false premise.

This is more about FDA strangulation. There are robotics available to the rest of the world (I know based upon my research regarding touchless PRK - photorefractive keratectomy) that are not available in the USA because they have not paid to get FDA approval on the device ... an FDA "tax". It makes more sense to go to Canada to get your eyes fixed than stay in the USA because the tools available in Canada are superior. Rand Paul may well have done his homework and found the same for hernia.

Don't let the media frame this as "Rand Paul Bad Man" or "Socialized Medicine Good Deal". Under the covers this is really about FDA overreach.


24 posted on 01/15/2019 10:22:19 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: TangledUpInBlue
For a hernia? It’s like getting your tonsils out.

Oh, so now you're a doctor as well as an anonymous FR BS artist.

25 posted on 01/15/2019 10:38:50 AM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Why?


26 posted on 01/15/2019 10:39:31 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He is smart enough to go the best private hospital for the procedure he needs.....it happens to be in Canada.


27 posted on 01/15/2019 10:40:46 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

‘non mesh’ repair


28 posted on 01/15/2019 10:56:03 AM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He is going to a private clinic and will pay out of pocket. Yahoo lies.


29 posted on 01/15/2019 11:10:19 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Candor7
Mr. Paul will pay a lot less for his surgery in Ontario than he would in the states.

Not Everywhere

30 posted on 01/15/2019 12:01:18 PM PST by SC DOC
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Having researched Shouldice when my husband needed a hernia fixed (uninsured) I can tell you that this is a reasonable and intelligent choice both for cost and superior expertise and care.

Yahoo’s “up to $8000) is BS, it will be less than half of that unless this involves a mesh removal instead of simple repair.


31 posted on 01/15/2019 12:54:01 PM PST by Valpal1
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Geez - I did fine with it just down the road in Atlantic City last year - laproscopic robo-surgery and all the rest - seems like a long way to go and a lot to pay for something that’s usually not a big problem.....


32 posted on 01/15/2019 3:01:49 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: PGR88

Well said.


33 posted on 01/15/2019 4:35:12 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He probably doesn’t want to take the chance that a Democrat Doctor here might murder him on the Table.


34 posted on 01/15/2019 4:37:35 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It is perverse but some countries with universal care have superb private care. They have dual systems. Plus when you cross borders you usually end up not being able to sue.

I know a superb urologist/surgeon who moved to Spain where he now performs his excellent surge prices at 1/4th his US price.


35 posted on 01/16/2019 7:12:39 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: FreedomNotSafety

surgeries at 1/4th his US prices


36 posted on 01/16/2019 7:21:40 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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