…You just keep on talking that “evils of socialism” line, while the rest of the industrialised world look after those in need of medical care.
Heaven knows what dire consequences lie in wait if the US government started using tax money to feed the poor, or cure them of diseases. A frightful thought.
Heaven knows – and so does Canada. If you want to find out what happens when 46% of your income is confiscated to be ladled out to the favourites of the government so they can keep their cushy American lifestyles, just move up here.
EXAMPLE: In June I was diagnosed with a “serious heart problem.” I was told that I would have an angiogram “sometime” – in the summer “everyone’s on vacation” so never mind. A month later I called up the cardiologist and raised cain because I had heard nothing, and found that they had “forgotten” to even mention the angiogram to anybody!
Currently there is an 8 month waiting list for an MRI in Ontario. When I was at the audiologist last week, a patient was told that either he could go on the indefinite waiting list for an MRI or “go to Buffalo and pay $2,000.” [shrug].
Last year 90 critically ill or seriously premature babies were born in the USA because there was not ONE SINGLE CRITICAL CARE NURSERY SLOT IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF CANADA. This included a set of quintuplets whose mother was airlifted by special helicopter to Michigan.
And last night there were so few ambulances and EMT in Toronto that when a call came in of a man with no vital signs, an ambulance that already had a critically ill patient on board was diverted to the scene, and one EMT stayed in the ambulance and the other tried without success to resucitate the patient.
And guess what? “Universal Health Care” doesn’t cover anything but catastrophic care, even if you can get it, and a very large percentage of Canadians have no family doctors because the doctors move to the States where they can make a living. (In Quebec there was such a shortage of Emergency Room doctors that they were considering sending bailiffs to forcibly march doctors to emergency rooms who had already put in a full day’s work.)
If you want to know how wonderful it is to live under socialism, it’s just north of you. Come on up.
P.S. You cannot have a “right” to something that you cannot produce for yourself without the assumption that you are entitled to enslave another for your benefit. Always ask yourself the question “at whose expense?” when you are demanding “free” this and that for yourself or someone else. There is no “free.” SOMEBODY has to pay.
