OT Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is going to Canada for hernia surgery

[SlyPokerDog]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ul-neighbor-attack-canada-surgery/2569965002/

 

[riverman]

This can only mean we're planning to invade Canada

 

[riverman]

Somewhere in Ontario a surgeon has an American politician by the balls....Canadian Collusion!!!

 

[Chris Craig]

But he has the best free healthcare being a senator can buy.

I will not be going to Canada for my hernia repair.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Since he's paying cash, he'll probably get to skip the line.

 

[barfo]

The way I read this, he'd get the operation done free in the US under his Senate healthcare, but he's having it done elsewhere for cash so that he can stick his neighbor with the bill. Which could be either principle (taxpayers shouldn't have to pay) or revenge.

barfo

 

[Lanny]

Since he's paying cash, he'll probably get to skip the line.

This means a longer line for some Canadians.

 

[andalusian]

This means a longer line for some Canadians.

The Mexicans of the North.

 

[Chris Craig]

The Mexicans of the North.

Mexanda?

 

[Chris Craig]

The way I read this, he'd get the operation done free in the US under his Senate healthcare, but he's having it done elsewhere for cash so that he can stick his neighbor with the bill. Which could be either principle (taxpayers shouldn't have to pay) or revenge.

barfo

I guess we don't have the best doctors

 

[barfo]

I guess we don't have the best doctors

It's that darn Obamacare, it made all the doctors flee to Canada.

barfo

 

[MARIS61]

Kelsey Cooper, a spokeswoman for Paul, said the hospital is privately owned and people come from around the globe for their services.

“This is more fake news on a story that has been terribly reported from day one — this is a private, world renowned hospital separate from any system and people come from around the world to pay cash for their services,” Cooper said in an email to the Courier Journal.

Paul, a Republican, often argues for private market solutions to American's health care woes.

In Canada, medical care is publicly funded and universally provided through the country's Provincial Ministry of Health, and everyone receives the same level of care.
Paul has called universal health care and nationalized options "slavery."

“With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care ... It means you believe in slavery," Paul said in 2011. "You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses. … You are basically saying you believe in slavery.”

 

[MARIS61]

It's that darn Obamacare, it made all the doctors flee to Canada.

barfo

Doctors didn't leave America. Most of them just left medicine altogether.

https://www.hannity.com/media-room/...-industry-over-bureaucracy-shortages-by-2030/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/29/new-york-doctors-flee-obamacare-i-plan-retire/

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Mexanda?

Meganda

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This means a longer line for some Canadians.

Weren't they already long?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The Mexicans of the North.

Bizarro Mexicans

 

[MARIS61]

Weren't they already long?

According to a new study by Canada's Fraser Institute, surgical waitlists are costing the nation about $1 billion each year in lost productivity. The average Canadian can now expect to wait 9.5 weeks for treatment with a medical specialist, this number up from 9.3 weeks last year.

While most stories report on the personal pain of waiting for care, Fraser's new report "The Private Cost of Public Queues," breaks ground in assigning a specific monetary value to the Canadian economy's loss each year due to the rationing in its single-payer healthcare system.

Based on a 2011 Statistics Canada finding, the study makes the assumption that 11% of patients "were adversely affected by their wait for non-emergency surgery." Dividing the cost individually, health rationing for Canada's 941,321 patients seeking specialized surgery came out to $3,500 per patient in lost wage hours.

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, healthcare spending annually totals about $200 billion, or $5,800 per person when spread across the country's 35 million residents.

Canada's Financial Post recently reported that the study also found that the loss in productivity amounts to $3 billion when adding in long emergency room visits and the cost of leaving work to see doctors.

With more and more attention being placed on Canada’s poor productivity relative to other industrialized nations, Mr. Esmail [the author of Fraser's study] says it’s high time Canada’s leaders begin examining more efficient means of providing health care through a socialized healthcare model that operates parallel to a private care model that is open to competition (similar to the model used in Japan and numerous European nations).

 

[riverman]

Weren't they already long?

penis envy, clearly!

 

[Lanny]

Kelsey Cooper, a spokeswoman for Paul, said the hospital is privately owned and people come from around the globe for their services.

“This is more fake news on a story that has been terribly reported from day one — this is a private, world renowned hospital separate from any system and people come from around the world to pay cash for their services,” Cooper said in an email to the Courier Journal.

Paul, a Republican, often argues for private market solutions to American's health care woes.

In Canada, medical care is publicly funded and universally provided through the country's Provincial Ministry of Health, and everyone receives the same level of care.
Paul has called universal health care and nationalized options "slavery."

“With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care ... It means you believe in slavery," Paul said in 2011. "You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses. … You are basically saying you believe in slavery.”

OMG, you've discovered our most closely guarded secret, we believe in slavery.