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Mark Steyn: The system infected us
National Post ^
| April 24 2003
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 04/25/2003 6:47:59 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
Mark Steyn nails it! Do we want single payer health care here seeing how poorly its worked in Canada? Toronto's health care system functioned a lot like one in a Third World country than what we would expect from a First World industrial democracy. It responded with slowness and measured alacrity to deal with a potentially lethal illness and in the end if SARS isn't spreading to the rest of Canada it must say something more for Canadians' innate caution than for all the wisdom of their own government. Something to think about when American politicians boast of how well health care in Canada covers the entire population that we should try it here. Then how come we don't have a SARS crisis like Toronto is having? One has to come to the conclusion America's health care system is working beautifully and what's lost on El Poco Loco and other liberal demagogues pushing for a government-run health care plan is don't mess with what works. Americans understand this quite well.
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04/25/2003 6:56:29 AM PDT
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goldstategop
( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: knighthawk
Steyn could have titled this "Socialized Medicine Kills People".
The Economist did a Survey of Canada awhile back entitled "Nice country, nice mess". Unfortunately true.
But at least they're not Americans! They'll always have THAT to fall back on. I hope it's enough for them.
To: knighthawk
And if it ever get to the point where Toronto has to be sealed off, the military probably couldn't do it.
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04/25/2003 6:59:39 AM PDT
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Grig
To: knighthawk
Yet another triumph of caring, sharing socialism.
To: knighthawk
Personally, I'd have been more impressed if he and Aline had had a candlelit dinner for two over a gurney in the emergency room of a Toronto hospital.What a vivid imagination!
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04/25/2003 7:04:40 AM PDT
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facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: knighthawk
This is the glorious system Hillary and Gephardt want to bring to the U.S. Ain't we lucky?
To: Grig
LOL! Like Canada has a military to even patrol its long borders...
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04/25/2003 7:05:36 AM PDT
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goldstategop
( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Norman Conquest
We are lucky. Fortunately the Democrats are too dense to understand the implications of what's happening North of us to draw the correct conclusions about a health care system appropriate for the needs of America.
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04/25/2003 7:07:01 AM PDT
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goldstategop
( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: knighthawk
Steyn paints a compelling portrait of the inability of leftist thinking to deal with real problems. The Canadian Prime Minister eats a symbolic dinner at a Chinese restaurant, apparently in the belief that this is an adequate response to the failure of Canada's health care system...
In time, the global leftist pandemic will come to an end.
The remaining question is how many more people will die before it finally burns out.
To: Pokey78
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04/25/2003 7:25:17 AM PDT
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Tares
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04/25/2003 7:30:14 AM PDT
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tictoc
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To: goldstategop
the Democrats are too dense to understand the implications of what's happening North of us to draw the correct conclusions about a health care system appropriate for the needs of America. This morning my favorite Lefty, Bill Press, told us that he was "stunned, dumbfounded" why the SARS epidemic has affected Canada, but the United States is so much less affected. The handwriting is on the wall, but the Liberals cannot see it.
"As for our diseased Dominion, like the Chinese our leaders behaved true to form. When something bad happens in Canada, the priority is to demonstrate how nice we are. After September 11th, the Prime Minister visited a mosque. After SARS hit, the Prime Minister visited a Chinese restaurant."
The best lines written in a long long time.
To: headsonpikes
The horrors of socialism don't really hit home till you see them presented in graphic detail, as Mark Steyn has done in this piece: A signal service.
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04/25/2003 7:41:32 AM PDT
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ricpic
To: knighthawk
the Democrats are too dense to understand the implications of what's happening North of us to draw the correct conclusions about a health care system appropriate for the needs of America. Enough of the sugar coating. There's nothing dense about it. Radical liberals WANT epidemics. They are all over-population junkies. They want at least 5/6s of humanity destroyed. They WANT a health car system that is ineffective. Why else do you think that an ineffective one is the only kind they create when given the power to do so?
It's the radicals that control the organizations and their murderous intent is quite obvious. Obvious that is to anyone who is capable of seeing past the veneer of liberal smokescreens.
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04/25/2003 7:46:17 AM PDT
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Seruzawa
(commies- nuke 'em til they glow and shoot 'em in the dark.)
To: goldstategop
In no way would I ever suggest America adopt our system. If it's a flop in a small country like Canada, imagine how bad it would be in the U.S. You'd be kissing your superpower status good bye soon if you did that.
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04/25/2003 7:49:07 AM PDT
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IvanT
To: Interesting Times
Steyn paints a compelling portrait of the inability of leftist thinking to deal with real problems. The Canadian Prime Minister eats a symbolic dinner at a Chinese restaurant, apparently in the belief that this is an adequate response to the failure of Canada's health care system... Yes, in response, he ate at a chinky restaurant, then left for the Dominican to hang out and play golf with Bubba Bill. You know what the idiots response to 9-11 was? The french tw@t visited a Mosque.....
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04/25/2003 7:50:57 AM PDT
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IvanT
To: goldstategop
I have to rise to the defense of the Canadian health care system. If you follow these rules, you will be fine:
1. Don't get sick, this obviates the need to enter the health care system.
2. If you do get sick make sure you have a competent GP who is really good at diagnosis and can get you in to see a specialist stat if you need it. Otherwise, you are in the soup.
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