Posted on 09/20/2007 3:49:18 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Those who hold up Canada’s nationalized system as a model for the U.S. have another piece of evidence that maybe it’s not: Those who are sick and have a choice go to the U.S. for their care.
Stronach, a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, came to California last June for a cancer operation.
Liberal Party member Robert Bourassa, who served as premier of Quebec in the early 1990s, chose to be treated in Cleveland, Ohio.
Karen and J.P. Jepp, who had to leave their home in Calgary, Alberta, for Great Falls, Montana, to give birth to their identical quadruplets. Why? A shortage of neonatal beds and inability to perform a C-section for multiple babies.
You might wonder, if Canada’s health care system is so great, why would a Canadian city of more than a million people have fewer beds for newborns and fewer services than a fairly remote prairie city of 57,000? Good question. In fact, these and other instances lay bare the ugly truth about Canada’s system: Far from being a health care paradise, Canada’s system is in disarray — and getting worse. That’s why it’s pursuing private-sector reforms, even as we consider national health care. In 1998, 212,990 Canadians were on hospital waiting lists for surgery, waiting on average 13.3 weeks. Today, more than 800,000 Canadians are on waiting lists, waiting often 20 weeks or more. Survival rates for major types of cancer in the U.S. are higher than in Canada. As such, seven of 10 Canadian provinces send their prostatecancer patients to the U.S. for treatment
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The ruling socialist Nomenklatura in Canada has access to treatment unavailable to the peons. When this access is not enough they come to the USA for proper private care. AND the provincial health plans pay for this, no questions asked.
In other words, they demand private health care for themselves that they deny BY LAW to ordinary Canadians.
This kind of reminds me of all of the lib democrats in America who send their kids to private schools.
Yucks and guffaws all around.
So do we, we are Canadians living in the USA for almost 8 years now!
Well thank you, I'll know not to go to Canada now when I get sick.
Now that their dollar is on par with ours, I guess we can see more Canucks coming here for our cheap health care...
One of the sneaky little secrets of the Mideast is that rich Arabs often fly to Israel for treatment in Israeli hospitals.
peons have it rough just about anywhere :^)
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