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Safety Valve for American Patients?
The U.S. acts as a safety valve for Canada when it can't provide adequate health care for its citizens. If Congress nationalizes the American system, who will act as a safety valve for us?
Reports the Detroit Free Press:
Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.
Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.
The agreements show how a country with a national care system -- a proposal not part of the health care changes under discussion in Congress -- copes with demand for care with U.S. partnerships, rather than building new facilities.
Michael Vujovich, 61, of Windsor was taken to Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital for an angioplasty procedure after he went to a Windsor hospital in April. Vujovich said the U.S. backup doesn't show a gap in Canada's system, but shows how it works.
"I go to the hospital in Windsor and two hours later, I'm done having angioplasty in Detroit," he said. His $38,000 bill was covered by the Ontario health ministry.
If President Barack Obama succeeds in extending government control over American medicine, sick Canadians may be just as disappointed as American patients!
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iamse7en| 8.26.09 @ 5:03AM
Okay, Doug. I LOVE your posts - I read AmSpec and Cato@Liberty every day, but man, you've got to get some sleep.
Posting at 4:20am? Where the heck are you?!
Only kidding. I've gotten behind on my reading, so I've had to stay up extra late to get it done.
Too much Hot Air, Foundry, AmSpec, Cato, Reason, Stossel, Cafe Hayek, and Peter Schiff vlogs...
I'm freakin' spent. And all this crap is really draining on my emotions. I can't stand what government is doing to my country...
Ranting at 5am. Somebody kill me.
Ron Paul, save us please.
MikeN| 8.26.09 @ 10:02AM
The Left has always been saying that Cuba has great health care. I didn't realize that it was in a future where America has socialized medicine.
MikeB| 8.26.09 @ 5:07PM
"The agreements show how a country with a national care system -- a proposal not part of the health care changes under discussion in Congress..." That part is quoted in this post.
Also from the same article (but not quoted here):
"No plan currently under discussion in Congress calls for a universal plan like Canada's, but opponents fear socialized medicine, anyway."
So perhaps you could elaborate on what exactly would change for the Canadians seeking medical care in the US. All of this garbage using the words "socialized medicine" and "government control"... Take the time to read and understand the bill. Nothing in it comes close to the healthcare system in Canada and I feel that by now that should be fairly obvious to anyone that has taken the time to read about it.
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Things must really be bad in Canada when you have to go to Detroit to find something better!
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