ot health care

David LaCourse wrote:

Now that I am into my 70s and Joanne has retired, I am on medi-care,
which, so far, has treated me well. I'll take what I have now and what
I had those many years ago before I take anything Canada or GB can offer
me. I selected my own doctors, my own treatment; it was done MY way,
not the government's way, and I am alive and fairly healthy all these
many years afterward because of the decisions *I* made.

Hope you are well.

Dave
(and, yes, I am sure there are many success stories out of Canada/GB,
and many not so successful out of the USofA, but I'll keep what I have,
thankyouverymuchmrobama! Leave my health care the **** alone!!!!!)

Do you think people in Canada or Great Britain do not get to select
their own doctors?

Tim Lysyk

On Sep 17, 8:48*pm, Tim Lysyk wrote:
David LaCourse wrote:
Now that I am into my 70s and Joanne has retired, I am on medi-care,
which, so far, has treated me well. *I'll take what I have now and what
I had those many years ago before I take anything Canada or GB can offer
me. *I selected my own doctors, my own treatment; *it was done MY way,
not the government's way, and I am alive and fairly healthy all these
many years afterward because of the decisions *I* made.

Hope you are well.

Dave
(and, yes, I am sure there are many success stories out of Canada/GB,
and many not so successful out of the USofA, but I'll keep what I have,
thankyouverymuchmrobama! *Leave my health care the **** alone!!!!!)

Do you think people in Canada or Great Britain do not get to select
their own doctors?

Tim Lysyk

See, I just do not understand why you Canadians, English, Germans,
etc. must INSIST that you know more about your respective health care
systems than we do! Why, oh WHY can you not simply accept your
comprehensive inferiority and just LISTEN!!??

g.

Giles wrote:

See, I just do not understand why you Canadians, English, Germans,
etc. must INSIST that you know more about your respective health care
systems than we do! Why, oh WHY can you not simply accept your
comprehensive inferiority and just LISTEN!!??

g.

Silly us. What are we thinking?

I've had thsi happen to me a number of times when travelling to the US.
Typical scenario - I am at a conference wearing a name tag that pretty
much announces I am Canadian. Some one who has no experience with Canada
at all will notice it, and start on me about what a crappy health care
system we have in Canada. They tell me how my taxes are so much higher,
as is my cost of living , and how crappy our national economy is (even
during periods when we had surpkus budgets), etc. etc., all the time
ignoring anything that I might say to the contrary. It is astonishing,
reallly, that we Canadians have been able to survive for so long under
such miserable conditions.

Tim Lysyk

On 2009-09-17 21:48:48 -0400, Tim Lysyk said:

Do you think people in Canada or Great Britain do not get to select
their own doctors?

I don't know, but I do know they seem to have to wait longer for
certain procedures. Time was very important in my case. It had to be
done NOW and was. I doubt I would have survived in Canada or GB.

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:47:40 -0400, David LaCourse wrote:

I doubt I would have survived in Canada or GB.

Oh, come on, now...in at least _some_ parts of both countries, they wouldn't
have beat you _to death_...I mean, if you ordered Drambuie and Vermouth
(...what's it called again - a Chipped Nail? A Bent Pinhead? A Rusty
Trombone?...) they might have slapped you around a bit, but not beat you smooth
to death...

HTH,
R
....OTOH, so maybe if you bitched about the octane of the gas while bragging
about yer expensive rubber britches, even the more reserved would have beat you
pretty badly, but still, I don't think they'd have actually killed you...

On 2009-09-18 08:18:34 -0400, said:

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:47:40 -0400, David LaCourse wrote:

I doubt I would have survived in Canada or GB.

Oh, come on, now...in at least _some_ parts of both countries, they wouldn't
have beat you _to death_...I mean, if you ordered Drambuie and Vermouth
(...what's it called again - a Chipped Nail? A Bent Pinhead? A Rusty
Trombone?...) they might have slapped you around a bit, but not beat you smooth
to death...


HTH,
R
...OTOH, so maybe if you bitched about the octane of the gas while bragging
about yer expensive rubber britches, even the more reserved would have beat you
pretty badly, but still, I don't think they'd have actually killed you...

Richard, without a doubt, you are a bigger asshole than Fortenberry.

"David LaCourse" wrote in message
news:2009091808295675249-dplacourse@aolcom...
Richard, without a doubt, you are a bigger asshole than Fortenberry.


ahhh, we're all assholes. I doubt the size difference between the two is all
that significant.
bsegTom

On Sep 18, 5:34*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
"David LaCourse" wrote in message

news:2009091808295675249-dplacourse@aolcom...

Richard, without a doubt, you are a bigger asshole than Fortenberry.

ahhh, we're all assholes. I doubt the size difference between the two is all
that significant.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * bsegTom

It ain't so much the size......it's whether or not it's paid for.

g.

David LaCourse wrote:
I don't know, but I do know they seem to have to wait longer for certain
procedures. Time was very important in my case. It had to be done NOW
and was. I doubt I would have survived in Canada or GB.

You're just making **** up. You have absolutely no way of knowing
your chances of survival in Canada or the UK because you don't
know diddly about health care in Canada or the UK. But you've
never let ignorance stop you from spouting off your fat mouth
before so why should this time be any different.

You're a great Republican, Louie. Keep up the good work and ...

Carry on.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:28:39 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

David LaCourse wrote:
I don't know, but I do know they seem to have to wait longer for certain
procedures. Time was very important in my case. It had to be done NOW
and was. I doubt I would have survived in Canada or GB.

You're just making **** up. You have absolutely no way of knowing
your chances of survival in Canada or the UK because you don't
know diddly about health care in Canada or the UK. But you've
never let ignorance stop you from spouting off your fat mouth
before so why should this time be any different.

You're a great Republican, Louie. Keep up the good work and ...

Carry on.

Um, just out of curiosity, what personal experience do you have with those
health care systems? On what do you base your assertion that he's wrong?

HTH,
R