Busload of Canadians travels to Maine for health care

AP Story ^ | 06/24/02 | AP

[pkmaine]

Busload of Canadians travels to Maine for health care By Associated Press, 6/24/2002 17:06 BANGOR, Maine (AP) A dozen Canadians traveled by bus from Saint John, New Brunswick, on Monday to obtain access to health care they say they could not get or would have to wait for under their country's single-payer system.

[scarface367]

And yet their nationalized heath care is vastly superior to ours. </sarcasm>

[SheLion]

Hey pk! Where you been??

Wait a minute.......what is THIS? I thought Maine's health care was FAILING???? If it's FAILING, how can we take in all those people from Canada?

Explain please......... :)

[nothingnew]

Ain't that neat?....WTF?.....Borders are going to fall soon IMHO.

I'm trying to think of a place to go...any suggestions?

FMCDH

[Tom Bombadil]

A dozen Canadians traveled by bus from Saint John, New Brunswick, on Monday to obtain access to health care they say they could not get or would have to wait for under their country's single-payer system.

Hey PK, greetings from Orrington! And John Baldacci (Dem candidate for Gov) thinks we need a single payer system. If that happens, we can kiss good healthcare goodbye.

[Eddie Haskell]

Unlike the illegals from Mexico, these Canadians were NOT freeloading off of the US government. Their medical care was paid for via private donations, probably from fellow Canucks, not a freebie from the US government. Did you read the article? Anyway, so much for socialism.

[SheLion]

If Baldacci becomes our Governor, we can ALL bend over and kiss it good-bye!

We think KING is bad. heh! Just wait.....

[dts32041]

The problem with baldi, he doesn't even know how to make good spaghetti, something Mama never taught him.

After eight years of Anguish, baldi is going to run the state further in the ground.

[Minutes]

Yes! and 'us' Canadians planned on going home after a visit to your fair country. NOT plant our butts and stay there (on welfare, with our 9 kids) for eternity....

*S*

[American in Canada]

I live in New Brunswick and if you get sick here, you could die from minor ailments. I go to the US for any and all medical care since I am close to the St. Stephen, NB/Calais, Maine border. When I recently suffered a severe leg injury, a local Doctor told me to go to Calais Regional Hospital for treatment. No reason given why I needed to go there other than they were busy.

[SheLion]

Yes! and 'us' Canadians planned on going home after a visit to your fair country. NOT plant our butts and stay there (on welfare, with our 9 kids) for eternity....

No....your taking me all wrong.

I think it's great that you all can come here for treatment. What "I" am saying is: Gov. King has been putting in print for the past 6 months how bad our health care system is, and how it's failing.

This is no slam against you, at all.

When you stop and think about us sending a bus over to Canada for prescriptions, yet a bus with our friends from Canada is coming here for health care, it's just really hard to figure out what is going on in this state.

[LibKill]

I used to work in an insurance brokerage. We had many Canadian nurses coming in for health insurance (foreign nationals have to have health insurance to work in the U.S.).

They were all running away from the commie healthcare=death for patients and poverty for medics system.

And this was in a small town in Texas, as far away from Canada as you can get without going to Hawaii.

[Fish out of Water]

*Index Bump

[buccaneer81]

I grew up in Woodstock. I am actually afraid to visit my Mom. I tell my girlfriend that if there's an emergency, we have to go to Houlton.

[Minutes]

I understood.... !..... I was just trying to add my 2 bits about how, at the opposite corner of your country, they DON'T go home (basically saying that 'they're' worried about us 'evil' Canadians, when they have a real problem, that needs real attention, at the US/Mexican border.)

and Yes, I agree with you.... (bus loads of Canadians have to go to the States for treatment, bus loads of Americans have to come to Canada for prescriptions...... !!!!)..... Crazy !