Tough to have much sympathy for any guy who inflicted this mind-numbing stinker on us:
Posted on 09/09/2006 8:30:00 AM PDT by FairOpinion
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is throwing its support behind a lawsuit filed in Calgary Friday that challenges Alberta’s ban on private health insurance.
Calgarian Bill Murray is challenging the law forbidding residents from purchasing private health insurance after he was denied the opportunity to receive a Birmingham hip replacement.
He ended up going out of the province and paying for the procedure out of his own pocket.
“Denying an individual medical treatment while also making it illegal to purchase health insurance is unconscionable and completely unacceptable in a free and democratic society,” said CTF federal director John Williamson.
The suit comes in the wake of a case in Quebec in which the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a law forbidding the purchase of private health insurance on the grounds that it violated the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. However that ruling is only applicable in Quebec.
Murray’s lawsuit seeks to enshrine similar rights in Alberta and the rest of Canada.
“The (Quebec) Chaoulli case properly ruled when the medicare monopoly system results in waiting lines, Quebecers have the right to spend their after-tax dollars on their own health care,” said CTF Alberta director Scott Hennig.
“Albertans can’t be blamed for wanting those same rights.”
“How many more people must sit and suffer on government waitlists before politicians remove this archaic ban on private health insurance?”
Alberta Health spokesman Howard May said the department doesn’t yet have a position on the case.
“It’s business as usual on the health-care front and the court action will not drive our agenda,” he said.
But Liberal health critic Laurie Blakeman said Murray wants to be subsidized for queue-jumping.
She said Murray didn’t qualify for a Birmingham hip replacement procedure under a pilot project in Alberta because of his age so he went elsewhere – and now he wants taxpayers to foot the bill.
Blakeman said introducing private health insurance will leave Albertans with less choice, rather than more choice as claimed by backers of the suit.
But she warned that if the suit is successful it will be detrimental to all Albertans.
“Our public health system will be undermined,” she said. “It will be a huge crisis.”
"She said Murray didn’t qualify for a Birmingham hip replacement procedure under a pilot project in Alberta because of his age "
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NOTE the rationing of healthcare -- that's what you get with socialized medicine.
Bass Ackwards isn't it.
Banning private health insurance is absolutely immoral -- and this is exactly what the Democrats want for us.
Remember "Hillary! Care," where paying your doctor with cash was actually made a criminal offense! You and your doctor could actually go to jail for going around the government's "plan."
Mark
The more government we invite into our personal lives, the less freedom we have. This should be broadcast around America. Not all free countries are like America, as the left would love for everyone to believe.
I often recommend to family and friends that they spend some time out of the country - working, paying taxes, etc - to see how great America really is.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
The arrogance and evil of the leftist tyrants makes me want to vomit. And they lie endlessly as well, if you read the article carefully. Absolute totalitarian vermin, be they Canadian Liberals or US Democrat Party.
The Canadian Supreme Court last year ordered that Canucks be allowed to buy private health insurance.
The Supreme Court Decision is totally ignored by the lawless socialist who run Canada with an iron fist.
A friend came over for dinner when I was in NB last week, visiting my parents. He was stunned to learn that, in the US, hospitals can't turn you down if you are unable to pay. Nobody tells them that -- the government want Canadians to think that all of the uninsured in the US are dying by the millions because they can't afford medical care. I also know that, in NB, busloads of people make the 2+ hour drive from St. John to Bangor to see doctors and get treatments they can't get at home.
Sorry, Groundhog Day is absolutely brilliant.
A Quebec dude won the case last year. The provinces simply totally spit on the Canadian Supreme Court. The "victory" has been ignored. The socialist rling class tyrant scum will not follow the law.
Canadian helathcare sounds like a mutual suicide pact - not like medical care.
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