So this was a rather beautiful exchange in a Senate hearing on single-payer healthcare Tuesday. Sen. Richard Burr, who we are informed did not play either Perry Mason or Robert T. Ironside, was ready to come down like a million-pound shithammer on Canadian doctor Danielle Martin from Toronto, Canadaland, about that country's complete failure to provide healthcare that even keeps people in Canastan alive and doesn't kill them while they wait for treatment in an alley. Sadly for Burr, Dr. Martin didn't even accept the premise of his questions, and set him straight -- or maybe not, since he just plain ignored everything she said. It's a pretty impressive Truthdown of the Senator nonetheless.
"MARTIN: I don’t, sir, but I know that there are 45,000 in America who die waiting because they don’t have insurance at all."
Donna Shalala pointed out American has a rather poor health care system. We have an excellent sick care system.
What we need is a health care system that helps prevent people from becoming sick in the first place.
There's an old Chinese story about three brothers who are doctors. One brother was famous across the land, called upon by great lords to come and treat them. The second brother was famous in his province, and the governor would ask him for treatment when he needed it. The third brother was known only in his village. Seems his patients never really got sick.
I would be interested to know what the median wait time is for a hip replacement in the US and Canada. I already know that the mean wait time in the USA is infinite.
My brother (a republican and an MD) always starts with this crap, telling me how "everyone he knows" from Canada, Germany, etc. "hate" their health care systems. I just tell him he needs to stop talking to people that are "like him" since actual data strongly suggests otherwise. Facist douchebags seem to find each other easily.
We have exchange students and faculty often, and they are rather mystified by the rumors of the dysfunctional single-payer system. But those anecdotes, from the mouths of actual people I actually talk to, somehow are less accurate than anecdotes heard third-hand about some guy on a waiting list.
Of course, that's what I read last week (out of order!). Just took 1876 off the shelf and started it.
Stuck a toe in the water in Nova Scotia one time in July and it froze. There's that.
"MARTIN: I don’t, sir, but I know that there are 45,000 in America who die waiting because they don’t have insurance at all."
BOOM! <i>[Drops mic. Walks out.]</i>
Donna Shalala pointed out American has a rather poor health care system. We have an excellent sick care system.
What we need is a health care system that helps prevent people from becoming sick in the first place.
There&#039;s an old Chinese story about three brothers who are doctors. One brother was famous across the land, called upon by great lords to come and treat them. The second brother was famous in his province, and the governor would ask him for treatment when he needed it. The third brother was known only in his village. Seems his patients never really got sick.
kernel of truth? or just mould?
I would be interested to know what the median wait time is for a hip replacement in the US and Canada. I already know that the mean wait time in the USA is infinite.
My brother (a republican and an MD) always starts with this crap, telling me how &quot;everyone he knows&quot; from Canada, Germany, etc. &quot;hate&quot; their health care systems. I just tell him he needs to stop talking to people that are &quot;like him&quot; since actual data strongly suggests otherwise. Facist douchebags seem to find each other easily.
&quot;gay&quot;
FTFY
We have exchange students and faculty often, and they are rather mystified by the rumors of the dysfunctional single-payer system. But those anecdotes, from the mouths of actual people I actually talk to, somehow are less accurate than anecdotes heard third-hand about some guy on a waiting list.
That Dr. Martin sure knows how to treat a Dick Burr.
thafuck is an <i>oatcome</i>?
HEY!
Tim Horton&#039;s. Their coffee smells like cat piss and doesn&#039;t taste much better, and the donuts are shipped in from off-site.
True fact- the Ontario government introduced health cards 25 years ago because too many WERE doing that and getting our sweet sweet free health care.
I just finished re-reading Gore Vidal&#039;s <i>Burr</i>. Good stuff.
My basically unemployed sister got leukemia 14 years ago- she got the best treatment in the country, all covered.