Ed Morrissey: “They wanted Juana to come to Canada so she could serve Canadians who needed home health care. When Juana got sick, the same health care service for which she worked couldn’t be bothered to foot the bill for her treatments. Juana worke…

 
At first I read this story thinking Canada was dealing with an illegal and was going to make some cold-hearted snarky comment about how the Philippines needs to deal with their own citizenry. But I did not have to go far.
Then I read that the …

Now, let’s imagine that a private health insurer pulled that kind of stunt. It would make headlines, and political candidates across the spectrum would start including Juana as the victim of the corporate, profit-centered mentality of the American health care system. Except, of course, it doesn’t happen. Insurers can’t kick people off their rolls for getting cancer after their coverage starts, and the US government doesn’t deport legal immigrants for dying before they’ve serviced enough Americans to make them worthwhile.

The sad thing is that government run health care also eliminates the freedom you have to take your business somewhere else! You can’t leave when a company does crap like this so they have no incentive other then cutting costs and they don’t care how they do it!
David

Does anyone remember the Khadr case? When young Al Qaeda terrorist Khadr, who’d been paralyzed in combat with US forces in Af-stan, was re-admitted to Canada after release from Guantanamo, he was supposedly ineligible for Canadian public health care, for a minimum 6 months wait period, due to his having been out of Canada for years (including a lot of time in Pakistan and Af-stan BEFORE capture by US Special Forces. During this time, young Khadr was with Popa Khadr and older brothers, actively involved in Al Qaeda. Osama bin Ladin actually attended an older Khadr brother’s wedding in Af-stan).

Despite these Canadian health service regulations, young Khadr was IMMEDIATELY admitted to an orthopedic specialist hospital in Toronto for anticipated multiple surgeries, all at public expense. Too bad for Juana Tejada that she’s not a Muslim woman and an Al Qaeda terrorist

doesn’t deport legal immigrants for dying before they’ve serviced enough Americans to make them worthwhile

-Ed

Cap’n Ed, one services a car, one serves people, one only services people in a sexual sense, and a Clintonian one at that. Seeing as how Canada is screwing this immigrant, perhaps this was a double-entendre?

You won’t be alone forever my friend. Foolishness spreads like the plague.

Do not question the State. The State is never wrong. Soon, you will learn. Yes, very soon.

http://ezralevant.com/2008/06/what-could-mark-steyns-punishm.html

I don’t want to say this is why I’m SeoulMan and not, say, TorontoMan, but add our crushing taxes, our imploding healthcare system (best in the world, you stupid neo-con Americans!), and our complete disregard for hundreds of years of common law at the hands of extra-judicial Star Chambers, and you’ll see why I’m not eager to return any time soon.

SCORE!

SeoulMan on June 10, 2008 at 12:59 PM

Sorry to here about that. You are probably familiar with this bit of news as well: Government to pastor: Renounce your faith!

We’ll soon feel your pain as that story will soon be playing in theaters near us.

SCORE!

Yes, all health care is rationed; in the US we give it to people who people who plan ahead and insure for expenses. (And some for illegals, too, but that’s another story.)

Here’s another glorious rationing story from England: Woman Denied Pap Smear Now Dying

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shick on June 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM

Now it’s accurate.

Cold hearted government is saddening.

America should take them but it’s hard to fit it in without seeming like amnesty. It wouldn’t be the same because she came to Canada following the rules. She could come to the U.S. following the rules to her death bed.

Socialized medicine is pure collectivism, its the stuff the old Soviet Union and communist China is made of. It spreads misery equally and that’s all its good for. Such a system is anathema to individual rights, and individual rights are totally destroyed under such a system. You become a slave to the collective, but more accurately you become a slave to the elitist in power. And you have no say in the matter anymore, you have no recourse if your rights are denied, you gave that all up for “free healthcare” even though your tax bill will double whether you use the system or not.

Whenever the government takes over private sector business the results are always awful. Look at our public schools as the perfect example. Do you think public schools are free? Trust me, a huge amount of your tax bill goes to pay for public schools whether you have any children in them or not. Even if your children are in private schools you STILL MUST PAY for the scandalous, incompetent and dangerous public school system.

You can expect the same scandalous, incompetent and dangerous result from socialized medicine, except this time your very life will be threatened by government incompetence rather than just having to suffer with uneducated kids.

Where I live we have a constant influx of Americans with false medicare cards seeking treatment because they have no coverage in the States.

BL@KBIRD on June 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM

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