On 10/5/2015 7:04 AM, wrote:
> I know your story,


You know NOTHING, you lying ****!

DROP DAMNED DEAD NOW!

http://dailysignal.com/2010/02/09/th...go-to-america/

One common assertion among the left is that other industrialized
nations, such as Canada, achieved great success in health care within
their collectivist framework. This, then, begs the question: why is the
head of an east coast Canadian province coming to the United States for
medical treatment?

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is seeking heart surgery in the
United States, drawing criticism from “local bloggers and people calling
in to the province’s immensely popular open-line radio shows.” Yet his
actions are hardly unusual for world leaders. Saudi Arabian King
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is known to have his checkups at the prestigious
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
had heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in 2006 . Even middle-class
Canadians are utilizing their proximity to the United States to seek
treatment here.

A study by Steven Katz, Diana Verilli, and Morris Barer in Health
Affairs examining the Ontario Health Insurance Plan from 1987 to 1995
found “evidence of cross-border care seeking for cardiovascular and
orthopedic procedures, mental health services, and cancer treatments,”
although not widespread. Examples include the governments of British
Columbia and Quebec sending patients to the United States for coronary
artery surgery and cancer treatment. Shona Holmes, a Kingston, Ontario
resident in need of an endocrinologist and neurologist, crossed the
border when she was told to wait “four months for one specialist and six
months for the other.” Karen Jepp delivered identical quadruplets in
Montana “because of a shortage of neonatal beds in Canada,” with the
Calgary health system picking up the tab.

Perhaps Canadians’ health care migration patterns are a result of their
own centralized system of government health care planning and “free
care” crashing into the government’s budget constraints. The annual
study “Paying Mo Getting Less” produced by the Fraser Institute, a
Canadian think tank, found that government-run monopolies established in
each province of Canada (simultaneously barring private operators from
competing for the delivery of public health services) produce rates of
growth in government health care spending that are “not financially
sustainable through public means alone.” Each province’s policy of
insulating consumers from price signals, such as premiums, co-payments
and deductibles, has naturally led to over-consumption of medical
treatment. Thus provincial governments, encountering fiscal restraints,
must resort to long queues and the rationing of care.

And wait patients must. A hospital survey of five countries (United
States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia), conducted by
Robert Blendon and colleagues in Health Affairs found that “waits of six
months or more for elective surgeries were reported to occur ‘very
often’ or ‘often’ by 26–57 percent of executives in the four non-U.S.
countries; only 1 percent of U.S. hospitals reported this. Half of all
Canadian hospitals reported an average waiting time of over six months
for a 65-year-old male requiring a routine hip replacement; no American
hospital administrators reported waits this long.

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