Posted on 12/03/2005 2:37:00 AM PST by Stoat
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Hopefully our dear British Friends will be able to correct these troubles in short order; hopefully with a few Capitalist reforms along the way.
May God Bless them all.
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Same as in Canada. Fortunately we can go to the States, where they are setting up apecial clinics to deal with Canadians.
Canadians are happy to live in North Korea as long as they can get into the States without a passport.
I was thinking exactly that the other day when I was in the dentist's chair having two fillings put in. In England, providing you can get in at all, under National Healthcare, there is no novocain for such procedures.
God Bless America!
I was thinking exactly that the other day when I was in the dentist's chair having two fillings put in. In England, providing you can get in at all, under National Healthcare, there is no novocain for such procedures.
God Bless America!
Thank you so much for your kind words :-)
Your story reminds me of a good old friend of mine who was born in and continues to live in Bulgaria. She has become one of the world's finest and most celebrated classical musicians in her genre and remains in Bulgaria because of familiarity and because she has made a niche for herself there in a way that pays the bills quite well. She has frequent Bulgarian TV appearances and oftentimes graces the pages and covers of international classical music magazines. Despite her success and substantial means, she holds off with any and all dental care until she visits us here in the USA because in her native country Nocacaine is apparently completely unavailable, regardless of a person's position or ability to pay. Although it's a delight to see her every couple of years, it's a shame that she (and apparently everyone else in Bulgaria) is inconvenienced in this way. Naturally, most folks there would be unable to journey to the USA once in their lifetimes much less every couple of years, and so my heart goes out to them in their suffering. She doesn't understand all of the in's and out's of how things are run there and can't give me a great deal of insight as to why this is the case, but I am led to believe that it's in large measure due to Bulgaria's national healthcare system and it's efforts to cut costs....in this case it apparently means that they don't even import Novacaine into the country.
This is interesting.
My nephew, an educated young man in his twenties, fell in love w/a Bulgarian girl who was an exchange student. After high school, he spent six months traveling, mostly in Eastern Europe, mostly with this Bulgarian girl.
While it didn't work out romantically, he has continued to maintain that "it is a better country over there" (sic). I will file this away for him in some future conversation. It may not help, though.
Pay CLOSE attention, folks. This is what Hillary and the RATS are dreaming of doing to the USA.
I've heard it said that nationalized health care has all the efficiency of the postal service with all the compassion of the IRS. Hopefull this will never happen here.
Unfortunately, in the USA our once-proud University system has become completely corrupted by the Left, and serves in large measure as merely a means to indoctrinate America's youth into becoming good young Democrats and Socialists, marching in lockstep with the ideologies of their sometimes openly Marxist professors. Oftentimes being 'educated' these days doesn't mean what it used to. I mean no insult to you or your nephew, but it's quite commonplace that among University graduates these days their most passionate feelings are of a hatred of America.
he has continued to maintain that "it is a better country over there" (sic). I will file this away for him in some future conversation.
In his case it may simply require that he travel a bit and grow older and wiser in order see the errors of his perspective, but when he visits you it may be amusing to invite him along on a shopping trip to Costco or another of the giant 'warehouse stores', where the bounty of America's industry and harvests are utterly breathtaking in their magnitude and scope, and are equally available to all. Costco almost bowled over a visiting German dentist friend of mine, who marvelled at the 'miles of aisles' , seemingly stacked to the sky with just about any desired food or household item.
Don't expect miracles, however, as dedicated Leftists have a unique ability to avoid seeing realities.
Best wishes and good luck to you and I hope that you nephew will one day understand the reasons why people from Cuba, Haiti and elsewhere will eagerly risk their lives for a chance to come here in leaky, overcrowded boats and rafts. He may well be served by speaking with some of our Cuban citizens, many of whom live in Florida....they will set him straight.
Sadly, all too true. As per their accustomed template, the failure of "HillaryCare" was of course blamed upon 'those evil, wascally Wepubwicans!" and not on the fact that the plan was flawed and corrupt from one end to the other, in large measure because it was taken from examples in Canada and other nations who have descended into the turgid, roiling cauldron of Socialized Medicine.(another part of the failure was that sharp Americans recognized it as the massive power grab for the Dems that it was).
Failures will always be glossed over and explained away as the result of the Evil Republican Cabal, and so vigilance is essential. As in the Terminator movies, they are relentless and will continue until Americans reject them en masse. They will never stop and must be defeated at our Nation's polling places.
This exactly what the Clintons had in mind for the rest of us.
Some prominent political scientist (whose name I cannot bring back) once said that once the masses realize that they can get resources from others for nothing, they will vote in those politicians who will give them to them...that's not nearly as elegantly as the original--you may have noticed.
That being the case, it is doubtful that the residents of the U.K. will reform even when the gross inefficiencies and terrible pains inflicted upon them by their "system" are right in their face.
I think it was Alexis de Tocqueville that said that. If I'm right he was a French man that traveled around America during the early to mid 1800's and wrote a book called "Democracy in America"
It does sound like something that de Tocqueville would have said. Thanks.
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