On Sep 18, 4:43*pm, David LaCourse wrote:
On 2009-09-18 15:48:08 -0400, Tim Lysyk said:

David LaCourse wrote:

If your health care is so great, Tim, and I have no recent experiences
to claim it is not, why do so many Canadians come to the US for
treatment. *Could it be John Hopkins, Sloan Kettery, Mass General, Mass
Childrens, Mayo, etc.?

Most care is done within the country. Some folks go to the US for
procedures that cannot be done here either due to equipment or
personelle shortages, or the procedure isn't available where they live.
Canada is a big place, with not many people. If people go to the US for
legimate treatments, the costs are still covered by the provincial
governments, not the patients themselves. They still get the care, they
don't bear the direct costs.

Uh, Tim, there is no such thing as a free lunch

Right! Well, not in Canuckistan.....um.....I s'pose. Murrica is a
great land. I had a free lunch here just yesterday!

Of course they pay, through taxes, fees, etc.

Unlike......uh.....hm.....o.k.,I confess, I'm a bit lost here. Just
who is and who is not paying through taxes, fees, surcharges, user
fees, levees, assessments, co-pays, insurance premiums, and whatnot
alls?

If Obama has his way, my health care costs will go through the roof.

Solution? Die. Win/win situation.

Without tort reform (sorry Carolina guys),

Jeff, Wayno, pay him no heed.....some people are just born
pottymouths.

the expense will always remain high.

One of those point of view thingies. Most people, in most situations,
consider consider "expense" to be high by definition.....unless it
belongs to someone else.

Except for the obvious blunder
(removing the left leg when the right one was the intended one), can
Canadians sue for what they *think* was malpractice?

Like when the doctors told your parents that you were born alive?

Do they?

I'd wager a large some (hey! how about that, huh.....dicklet?!!) that
suing for medical malpractice is a concept WAY beyond the intellectual
(let alone legal) capacity of the average Canuckistani.

Do the laws in Canada discourage such actions?

Actually, that is precisely what we were hoping you'd tell us. :
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They certainly don't in this country.

Well, I hope I am not alone in asserting that you have irrevocably
convinced me that somebody or other doesn't somethin' or other in this
country. I pity the poor fools who think otherwise!

Why do so many Americans go to Mexico for cancer treatments?

Poor map reading skills?

Because they are reaching for hope,

Oh.

And does their reach exceed their grasp.....or ainna?

because that is all they have.

Goddamn shame. What they SHOULD have is a decent medical care system.

Hope.

Lange! What do I win?

They aren't cured in Mexico either.

True. Generally, they are cold-smoked.

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