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re: Rand Paul going to Canada for surgery
Posted on 1/15/19 at 6:35 am to Ralph_Wiggum
Posted on 1/15/19 at 6:35 am to Ralph_Wiggum
Senator goes to hospital specializing in needed surgery where he will pay out of pocket for his care.
Very uninteresting...
Very uninteresting...
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Posted on 1/15/19 at 6:48 am to deltaland
quote:
Amazing in a free country you can choose where to get treatment unlike countries like the UK with socialized medicine that let kids die instead of trying a new procedure somewhere else
This!
Freedom to Choose whether to have that procedure or not? Freedom to Choose the best Specialist for that procedure?
I would think Mr. Wiggles would be all about Choice?
Posted on 1/15/19 at 6:48 am to Ralph_Wiggum
One private hospital does not a healthcare system make.
Overall Canadians have a poorer healthcare system.
You should really think about laying low for a few days.
Overall Canadians have a poorer healthcare system.
You should really think about laying low for a few days.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 6:55 am to Ralph_Wiggum
quote:
Rand Paul going to Canada for surgery
Thread started 6:37 pm.
OP's last comment 6:51 pm.
He disappeared rather quickly after being manhandled on his "Gotcha Mean Conservatives" attempt.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 7:13 am to Ralph_Wiggum
quote:
This is very interesting. I thought conservatives and Liberatards said Canada's healthcare was awful with long waiting lists. I guess he likes how Canadians live longer than us and pay less for healthcare as measured by spending on healthcare as a percentage of GDP.
The fact that you think this is an actual story that matters shows me why you believe in the crap you post here. The Obama and Pelosi have walls points the right makes is a much better point but just as stupid and pointless IMO.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 7:35 am to Stingray
quote:
You guess wrong.
My statement was in regards to this one facility. Yeah I'm sure a person would have to wait a little bit as a walk in but that's not a big deal
Posted on 1/15/19 at 7:52 am to Ralph_Wiggum
Of ALL your epic fails, this one might be the most epic.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:13 am to Northshore Saint
quote:is rendered completely and utterly irrelevant by
The government pays the bill which is funded by taxpayers.
quote:
he's paying out of pocket
Canada is a place where socialized medicine can work, though. It has fewer people than California, and is nearly complete racially, ethnically, and culturally homogenous.
Cultural homogeneity is a HUGE benefit as far as healthcare costs are concerned.
Vast cultural and ethnic diversity, as well as the cost of getting drugs to market, are 2 of the leading factors that exacerbate US healthcare costs.
Neither of those would go away, if the US went single-payer.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:14 am to Northshore Saint
He's a US citizen, and he's still paying out of pocket for the procedure. Hence, the notion that he's going to Canada to benefit from socialized medicine is abject nonsense.
He's searched for the private hospital that has the best mix of price and expertise for the specific procedure he needs. If that's not the free market at work, I don't know what is. What it isn't is an across-the-board demonstration that government subsidized hospitals and socialized medicine are the best solution for America's healthcare woes.
Your commentary is as asinine as the OP's.
He's searched for the private hospital that has the best mix of price and expertise for the specific procedure he needs. If that's not the free market at work, I don't know what is. What it isn't is an across-the-board demonstration that government subsidized hospitals and socialized medicine are the best solution for America's healthcare woes.
Your commentary is as asinine as the OP's.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:15 am to Northshore Saint
Walk-in. . .it doesn't mean you get a procedure the same day.
I can walk in requiring spinal surgery. . .they will then schedule me or put me on the waiting list
I can walk in requiring spinal surgery. . .they will then schedule me or put me on the waiting list
This post was edited on 1/15/19 at 10:15 am
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:26 am to Northshore Saint
quote:Whoa Einstein.
This hospital is accessible to the average Canadian as well. It's covered by the same system that Rand and stupid fricks like him
Rand knows more about this topic then nearly any combination of 100 other DC politicians and/or bureaucrats. He certainly knows more about it than do you.
Your presumption is that this facility works under the same model as standard Canadian facilities. It does not. Your presumption is very poorly informed. Reduced wait times AND no requirement for referral exemplify that.
Shouldice is far more akin to the Surgery Center of Oklahoma than to standard Canadian facilities.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:37 am to Ralph_Wiggum
For some reason, everyone around here loves backbreaking healthcare costs and donating huge chunks of their salary to hospitals and pharma companies.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:40 am to Cuz413
quote:
Private hospital?
It has to be a private hospital or he would be waiting for a couple years to get in.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:41 am to TejasHorn
quote:And extremely costly actuarial inefficiencies insurance companies are mandated to undertake via the ACA.
donating huge chunks of their salary to hospitals and pharma companies
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:42 am to Dale51
quote:Correct
It has to be a private hospital or he would be waiting for a couple years to get in.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:47 am to Ralph_Wiggum
quote:
I thought conservatives and Liberatards said Canada's healthcare was awful with long waiting lists.
Ya Hey.
Link to Crowder
LINK
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:52 am to Ralph_Wiggum
quote:
Ralph_Wiggum
Good Lord are you stupid. Did that "gotcha" go the way you thought it would? I venture to say it didn't.
Posted on 1/15/19 at 11:16 am to Ralph_Wiggum
quote:
This is very interesting. I thought conservatives and Liberatards said Canada's healthcare was awful with long waiting lists.
money puts you in the front of every line. quote:do you know anything of out physiology. The human body survives longer in colder climates. Look at the life expectancy of civilizations from the equator north. you will see as you get closer to the poles life expectancy increases.
I guess he likes how Canadians live longer than us
Posted on 1/15/19 at 12:20 pm to Shunface
quote:
Overall Canadians have a poorer healthcare system.
You should really think about laying low for a few days.
Canadians have a higher life expectancy. That's how you judge healthcare systems. What's your measure?
Posted on 1/15/19 at 12:26 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:
Well . . . . just maybe
Rand is going to a bed and breakfast for treatment??
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