My burning question for supporters of nationalized health care:
If the U.S. adopts a single-payer health care system, where are the Canadians going to go for surgery, if they don’t want to wait a decade for a bypass?
You hate Canadians, don’t you? Don’t you?
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Very funny.
By the way, you’re the first AFLC guy I’ve run into online. I used to be AFLC. Both my wife and I attended AFLBS about twenty years ago.
Well, there aren’t many of us online. There aren’t many of us period.
They’ll go to the back alleys and dangerous regulation free clinics. It’s an American’s constitutional right to “free” health care. Didn’t Thomas Jefferson say something about it?
We’ve had the odd mini scandal up here (which gets covered for about 5 minutes; maybe) where prominent politicians who support our exclusively socialist health care system have been found to have gone (secretly) to the U.S. for health care. (I get the impression few people even care.) But it’s a strange system; of course professional athletes get immediate access (can’t allow those american bastards to beat us at hockey :=) and various civil servant groups get immediate access, and even u.s. services. I wonder how many americans realize this. But all in all there seems to be little protest, although at one point canada was one of only 3 countries on earth that made private health care illegal. (Cuba and N. Korea being the others.)How anyone can equate this with freedom I don’t know. Canada is a country largely run by government unions.
– a few private clinics have been ‘allowed’ to open here and there in the last couple of years, but it’s a miniscule thing so far.
– I could go on but I don’t think this is the place for it.
– p.s. can I add a plug for one of the great novels of the previous century; Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn. (I browsed through a pretentious volume recently called 1001 books you need to read before you die, and this wasn’t on the list… although everything by Beckett was!)
I’ve read it, back in college. I remember that it impressed me very much.
Should I read Cancer Ward before I get to The Gulag Archipeliago?
I am a little worried about socialized health care and encroaching liberalism in our country. Too many of us don’t care, as you say the Canadians are, SR. We don’t ask hard questions. We just want Big Brother to take away our pain.
I don’t think it matters what order. But CW is shorter.
And then there’s this! “Puzzled patients cost system billions” from the OttawaCitizen.com