What I’m Watching: The Guy With the Broken Clavicle Was Waiting For Five Hours
2009 July 13
Taking cues from Michael Moore, white guy with a camera Stephen Crowder investigates the Canadian health care system first-hand.
What do you think? Will Democrats craft “smarter” legislation that will help Americans avoid these sorts of problems in health care reform?
I’m sorry. Allow me to remove my tongue from my cheek: will Democrats craft legislation in the guise of “health care reforms” that will force Americans to suffer under a pseudo-single-payer system? In other words: could it get this bad in America?
What did you think about the woman whose mother had both her legs amputated because she had to wait for a year for treatment? How tragic that the woman became a victim of liberal ideology in such a debilitating way.
I’ve been typing up a post for the morning while you’ve apparently been posting this (great minds think alike, huh?).
This is insane!
I’ll discuss this video along with some of my own experiences with socialized medicine if you care to drop by in the morning.
Keep up the good work!
Don’t you just love the power of the internet? Without a monopoly on information, the Washington folks/East Coast opinion auditors have to work “guerrilla” videos like this one into their analyses/game plans.
I still rankled by that poor woman whose legs were amputated while waiting for treatment. Amputated. AMPUTATED. AMPUTATED!!!
So what do you think the liberals are going to say in order to debunk this video? That we’re not going to be “forced” into a single payer system? That this young man only sought out the most extreme sorts of examples? That private insurance has even more pitfalls than public health care?
Anyway, I’m looking forward to reading your commentary!
My dad had hip replacement surgery in Bismarck. One of the guys he went through post-op rehab with was Canadian. His hip joint prior to surgery was bone on bone. He was told in Canada that it would be 15-18 months to get his hip replacement done. His surgeon in Bismarck told him that if he had waited that long, there wouldn’t have been enough of the joint left to do surgery and that he would have been in a wheelchair the rest of his life.
Oh, by the way, the Canadian had to wait 5 1/2 weeks from the time of his first phone call to the surgeon to the time of his surgery.
Cory, where are you???? Corrrrryyyyyyyy……..
You know, Big B, almost any post that you read about health care reform has a comment like yours: “I’ve got a friend/family member/friend of a friend who uses X government run health care program and they’ve lost their limbs/life/mind because X bureaucrat couldn’t pay for/wouldn’t do/didn’t want to do Y.” And yet, Democrats still want to go through with this?
I still want to know why my health care insurance can’t work like my car insurance?
And I’m also surprised Madville Times hasn’t posted the video. It’s all over the place now.
Anyway, I heard today that the Senate let the Kennedy bill out of committee. Awesome.
Canadians are often waiting weeks, yes, WEEKS and MONTHS to see an oncologist. This is even before they have a treatment plan for the cancer treatment. I’m Canadian. The truth is that Crowder’s video is well done and correct. People are suffering and dying thanks to uncompassionate waiting lists. The system in Canada needs to change.A sad irony is that too many Canadians are brainwashed from the cradle. They actually believe the system will be there for them in their time of need, sadly, many Canadians also lie through their teeth to “protect” the rapidly collapsing healthcare system.
The Canadian system is best for very, very minor things like stitches, but not for chronic or life threatening illness.
Hi Jill,
Thanks for your remarks on our little blog!
I’m not so educated on how/why Canadians chose the system that they have now. Suffice it to say, many are not happy with what they have, but I wonder how they felt when the government system was sold to them? Can you educate me a bit?
How are Canadians reacting, btw, to news about Americans reforming their health care system?
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