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By: VikingGoneWild

VikingGoneWild — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:29:13 +0000

I’m taking a summer MAcroEcon class at Arizona State and we just got into Gov’t taxes & programs. National healthcare was brought up by one of the students, an older guy like myself, as something the Gov’t should be in charge of. I jumped in and bashed his “emotional” arguement with my DMV/school issues and this info, THANKS RUSH!!!. All I got was a “yeah but what about the children with no coverage?” comment.

I love when I get to beat a liberal with a liberal. Usually you have to pay double for that.

What would drive a man like Castonguay to reconsider his long-held beliefs? Try a health care system so overburdened that hundreds of thousands in need of medical attention wait for care, any care; a system where people in towns like Norwalk, Ontario, participate in lotteries to win appointments with the local family doctor.

I buy a lotto ticket to win millions, these guys play the lotto to try and stay alive!

The full article is here:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1502&status=article&id=299282509335931

By: PatriotPete

PatriotPete — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:47:02 +0000

I have a close friend whose 75 y.o. grand mother was denied dialysis in Canada because she was too old and she smoked. He brought her here, got her treatment, and she died of old age at 92…and never stopped smoking. The theory, of socialized health care is wonderful, there is just no way, economically, to put it in practice as our friends to the North have discovered.

By: PatriotPete

PatriotPete — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:42:12 +0000

I think I saw Micheal Moore running through the Crow’s Nest Pass getting tracked by some of the boys from work. Would be a good trophy for the wall.

Western Canadian on June 27, 2008 at 8:19 AM

Good God man, where’s the sport in hunting something that slow and dim witted?!?!? (And you would need a very big wall for a head that size!)

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:46 +0000

Dr. Ponzi, call your office!

By: Think_b4_speaking

Think_b4_speaking — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:51:29 +0000

Well, the joke used to be that the best argument against US socialised medicine was ‘Then, where will the Canadians go for real health care?’ I guess, if Canada turns its back on their policy, US citizens will have a place to go when we socialize.

By: Western Canadian

Western Canadian — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:19:03 +0000

Yup, just try sitting in a wainting room for 6 hours for your screaming child’s earache. Or better yet, the 3 months it takes for your elderly parent to get word on their Chemo results.
There needs to be a 2 tier system, and the public one needs to have cards issued to track the abusers who go to emergency for things they could get by makeing an appointment with their own doctor.
Piece of ***t in it’s current format.
I think I saw Micheal Moore running through the Crow’s Nest Pass getting tracked by some of the boys from work. Would be a good trophy for the wall.

By: Kafir

Kafir — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:17:11 +0000

What kills me (not me but a lot of Canadians) is that they knew up front that there were going to have to ration services. Didn’t that give any one of the a clue?

By: Grafted

Grafted — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:36:15 +0000

Castonguay has realized — a little late — that socializing medicine creates a shortage-management system. It limits the resources available, which drives down the level and the quality of service.

Hey now, slow down. No need to bring reality and reason into this. You’re giving the liberals headaches again.

By: diaphanous

diaphanous — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:25:44 +0000

I have yet to meet a canadian IN person that likes their health care. When I lived at the border MANY canadians would cross the border and visit the USA docs and pay out of pocket for a reason. This was over 15 plus yeara ago.

Says a lot imo.

I also had those same Canadians tell me to NEVER EVER give up our right to guns.

I took those words to heart.

By: DubiousD

DubiousD — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:44:33 +0000

Wasn’t it just recently that the Canadian supreme court ruled that citizens should be allowed to pay for medical care out of their own out of pocket expense?

By: chriscoolc

chriscoolc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:30:12 +0000

Canadians always put an extra ‘a’ at the end of each sentence, just in case, eh?

By: Johan Klaus

Johan Klaus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:36:16 +0000

At least he lived long enough, despite socialized health care, to see what a mess the system has become. Other Canadians I hear, weren’t as fortunate.

c3ichief on June 26, 2008 at 6:45 PM

He is afraid that he may have to use it.

By: Black Adam

Black Adam — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:35:16 +0000

I’m waiting for the Canadian government to hand out $1000 visa gift cards for the unintended victims of this government boondogle so they can ~~fix their healthcare and get their lives on track~~ go buy cheap plasma TVs and beer.

/Katrina rant

By: Spolitics

Spolitics — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:21:12 +0000

Shocker! Now that he’s forty years older, he’s not so keen on a system that would rather let the elderly die than pay for their treatments.

By: shaken

shaken — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:06:36 +0000

No “dirty healthcare” for Americans.

By: DrSteve

DrSteve — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:02:53 +0000

Nope, Tommy Douglas did it first.

He was a piece of work, wasn’t he? Didn’t he do his thesis on eugenics?

By: TinMan13

TinMan13 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:09:34 +0000

What a ‘guey.’ Oops, guAy.

By: MB4

MB4 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Mark Steyn:

Socialist health care is a 10 month wait for the maternity ward.

N. O’Brain on June 26, 2008 at 8:23 PM

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
- Wernher von Braun

By: woodswalking1

woodswalking1 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:38:26 +0000

Here in Maine we have a state program which with the help of the Democrats who control the state has driven out all of the insurance companies which offer individual policies.
It (the state program “Dirigo”) is going broke faster than I can type.
Take a look at it’s failure to see what the USA will look like with government run health care. It’s not pretty

By: illustro

illustro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:35:30 +0000

Ed, save pixels by dispensing with the quaint Victorian habit of double-spacing between sentences. You’re on a computer, man, not a typewriter!

Also (ahem), great piece. I’m with whitetop: hopefully this will get around.