Word for the Day, Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

verbivores | 5/17/05 | xs

[Gabz]

Already there!!!!

[Argh]

I abandoned subtlety decades ago when I discovered most people are too thick to get it.

[xsmommy]

what did we find out from the doc yesterdaY?

[Argh]

Nothing. He hadn't received the results of the May 6 scan so he said he'd get the hospital to fax them over to him and he would call me at home. He didn't call me. My tax dollars at work.

[xsmommy]

if you are ever seriously ill, we will have to do a WFTD fundraiser for you to get you out of that socialisthellhole for medical care.

[Argh]

If it's serious i.e. life threatening, they tend to drop everything and get at you pretty quickly. If you're not in imminent danger, it's half-measures and stupidity so they can charge the gummint for more visits from you.

I knew a guy in Montreal who needed a bypass operation, and had to wait 6 to 8 months. I asked him what happens if he has a heart attack, and he says they tell him in that case he should get an ambulance and they'll do it right away.

But 90% of Canadians love their "free medical". (Of course, it's not free, but they're too ignorant to know that for the average Canadian family of 4, taxes of all kinds (hidden and not so hidden) take about 55% of their income, not all going to medicare of course, but medicare takes a good chunk of it). They need to get some kind of market forces involved in the medical system, but the ideologues on the left scream bloody murder when that gets suggested.