Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 07:55:19 -0500 From: Greg Erwin Subject: Canadian Socialized Medicine "TIMOTHEUS(GORSKI)" <72724.3223@COMPUSERVE.COM> wrote: <> Gee, you're soooo clever. Right, I confess it now. I made up all the stuff about people not receiving health care in the US, the only people who do not are lazy, good-for-nothing bums who refuse to work, and choose to live in the street because they like the outdoors, just like Ronnie said. And I have to admit, our three children were born in an igloo in the back yard. When the labour pains started, the soonest they could schedule a birth was 3 months away. Likewise, my wife's surgery, and my own, and my mother-in-law's recent hospitalization, they were all a hallucination, we did it ourselves, with a butter knife in the kitchen, but I was too ashamed to admit it. Actually, everybody in Canada died weeks ago from the neglect imposed by our socialist medical system, we're just keeping it a secret. My Socialist Party Masters (NDP) will probably haul me off to thought reform camp for revealing this, and without a hand gun I will be powerless to stop them. I forgot to mention it, until reminded in a later post by Rebecca, that of course, they must have used my universal Canadian ID card to track me down. Oh, if I had only listened to your warnings! If only everybody here had had a .45 and doctors were earning high five figure incomes, then we, in Canada, could have enjoyed the prosperity, success and delights of the US. Oh, how I wish I were still in the US, helping to pay for the Savings and Loan entrepreneurs, contributing to the Pentagon's supplies of materiel (estimated as having enough in some categories to last for centuries) and being able to shoot strangers through the door without fear of interference... But,...it's too late now. Oh, and, of course, everybody in all the other socialist countries, like UK, Oz, NZ, Western Europe, they're all dead too. It was a combination of socialist medical care, and lack of hand weaponry for self-defence. We all deeply regret not having chosen <> Truth, Justice and the American Way. Well, I guess it's obvious (at least to all the other libertarians) that you, in Texas, know more about the daily workings of Canadian hospitals than me, in Ottawa. Far be it from me to tell you what's happening in Canada, when you obviously know it all, already. You get a gold star for rationality and attention to evidence. I will admit to being out of my depth when comparing specific medical procedures. BTW, is there any evidence that CABG is usually a medical emergency procedure? It seems to me to be more of the kind of thing that is subject to scheduling, and not usually of immediate urgency, that is, it is in most cases, more a matter of "should be done within weeks" rather than "should be done within minutes." ====== While I'm into confessing, I have to confess to Rob Jectivet that all of the above countries were, indeed, rank tyrannical [how did he put it] "The result is always a totalitarian government." pestholes. Canada forced the UN to rate us #1 in the Human Development Index, by threatening to withhold maple syrup. Of course, now that we're all dead, what does it matter? -- --Cogito, ergo atheos sum. Greg Erwin, Vice President, I godfree@magi.com Humanist Association Of Canada believe ai815@Freenet.Carleton.ca http://infoweb.magi.com/~godfree/ I am an "Thought is not a management function." --John Ralston Saul atheist.