Posted on 02/02/2010 7:33:49 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States.
CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 60, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week.
The premier's office provided few details, beyond confirming that he would have heart surgery and saying that it was not necessarily a routine procedure.
Deputy Premier Kathy Dunderdale is scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday morning.
She's expected to provide more details about Williams's condition, as well as how the provincial government will function during his absence.
CBC reporter David Cochrane said Williams appeared to be in good health recently. He described the premier as "fairly active," playing pick-up hockey at least once a week when work permits.
That's the dirty little secret. That and the fact that doctors and nurses will have to have their salaries capped for the simple reason you have more people chasing the same amount of medical services. Who's going to want to go into medicine only to become a civil servant?
No where.
You are dead.
I know exactly who they are. They are notorious trolls. Probably just one single troll.
Let me guess...he’s a BIG proponent of Canada’s Marxist health care system, right?
It's like a RINO, only worse.
Tea Party around the hospital the day his work is being done?????
Just Sayin’
A big liar.
There’s things we can do to make medical costs “fair” where all consumers are paying the SAME price for the SAME services from the same doctor (different doctors in different may still charge different rates).
But “professional discounts”, pre-negotiated discounts, federal discounts, etc. mean that someone else is picking up the difference (getting gouged).
Tort reform would also help (and one of the billion dollar trial lawyers killed himself driving recklessly this year, while John Edwards has put a fork in his career as a trial lawyer with his public scandals).
Interstate insurance may get rates down but as it is, the specifics of each state’s laws (something not under federal reach) means that some insurance companies won’t WANT to provide coverage in some states. Which doesn’t mean that opening up the market won’t make prices drop, it just doesn’t ensure it.
And requiring everyone to get insurance won’t make rates drop. That was Not-my-Mahhh Richard’s excuse in Texas when driver’s insurance became a requirement.
When are we going to require that all people along the coast carry flood and storm damage insurance? And people in California required to carry fire and earthquake insurance? We won’t need another “FEMA bailout” for a disaster area ever again.
They could always go here:Click for "Medical Tourism"
Maybe the Canadian people will learn something from this?
//sarc
We have cops making $86000 while in jail and suspended teachers making $100,000.
Civil Servants my left little toe.
>> The rulling class of socialists give themselves waivers for full coverage of treatment in the USA. No third rate Canadian medical care for them! <<
But they NEED only the best care a Capitalistic system can provide because they need to be in tip top shape so they can take “care” of us for “our own good”.
If our “benevolent leaders” are sick or infirm how can they “provide” us the services that can only be provided by a “kind and caring” bureaucracy.
Was your question was a serious one?
“The party adopted the “Progressive Conservative” party name in 1942 when Manitoba Premier John Bracken, a long-time leader of that province’s Progressive Party, agreed to become leader of the Conservatives on condition that the party add Progressive to its name. Despite the name change, most former Progressive supporters continued to support the Liberal Party or the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and Bracken’s leadership of the Conservative Party came to an end in 1948. Many Canadians still simply referred to the party as “the Conservatives”.” (Wikipedia)
It worked for a while—Diefenbaker in the 1950s. But then Pierre Trudeau blew away the Tories in the mid-1960s and the Conservatives tried to be nothing but Trudeau-lite and lost every election for the next 16 years.
So, yes, it is a lot like RINOdom, but with a difference: RINOs keep claiming to be real conservatives when they aren’t. Canadian Progressive-Conservatives were honest enough to admit that they wanted to be Trudeau-lite.
Fools.
Actually, they lost almost every election for the next 20 years. The little interlude with Joe Clark in 1979-1980 was a joke.
I believe we call them RINO’s..
Progressive Conservative in Canada = Moderate Left wing Democrat here on earth.
And then an even worse disaster in 1993, for another 10 years in the wilderness. So for 30 out of 40 years they were on the outs, all by trying to be Liberal-Lite. And then they went the way of the Whigs, as it were, when the Alliance took over the party 2003-2004. The “Progressive” part finally got a decent burial.
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