A comment made by “KG” to my earlier post about the confused state of affairs Canadians find themselves in vis-a-vis healthcare, inspired me to point to this column written today by American columnist and radio host Paul Jacob.
It shows once again how Americans comprehend Canada’s decrepit, hideous, scandalous, socialist North Korean-style healthcare system better than most Canadians—including “conservative” Canadians. And how they’re not shy about calling it what it is, nor are they like little “fraidy-cats” when it comes to dissing the oh-so-awesome and untouchable liberals in this country who are happily wrecking the place without a hint of outrage from the country’s own people.
Here’s the comment KG wrote:
I have to caution you Joel. As a conservative, I have to tell you that many of my conservative friends do support universal health care. While the mainstream does want some kind of private-public partnership on health care, but not at the expense of one for the other. If privatization of health care is on the top of your agenda, you can become a bit too radical for typical conservative.s
Too “radical”! For “conservatives” yet!
I responded:
Thanks for the caution KG about some of your conservative friends thinking I’m too radical for suggesting something about private enterprise, almost as if I’m some kind of NON-COMMUNIST, but where on earth did you get the idea I wanted to get rid of universally accessible healthcare?
Are you joking? I’m honestly not sure. Are you so entirely brainwashed by the liberal-left that that’s how you really honestly think? That I’m bordering on the “radical” by uttering the words “free market”?
I just want private enterprise to be free to do what they do best—fix it. Make it work. Make profits. Make people rich. Bring people back to health. And I want Canadians to be free to spend their own money as they freely want—paying it to whomever they want. That’s some pretty basic freedom. RADICAL? Yes, to a communist.
Don’t you dare call private enterprise a “radical” notion or I will have to call you and your “conservative” friends liberals—or communists.
I don’t think you know much about my “agenda”. Not that it’s “secret” (darn it, huh?)—you just haven’t spent much time learning about it—a familiar refrain to me.
Paul Jacob’s column is called Canada’s medical gulag.. And this is what liberals—and apparently some “conservatives”—want.
Canada is not a communist country. Really, it’s not — except when it comes to medical care.
While some Americans argue that our health care system should be copying Canada’s single-payer national (read: government-controlled) health care system, a recent ruling by Canada’s Supreme Court ought to cause some serious reconsideration. Deadly serious reconsideration.
Canada is the only industrialized country that actually prohibits citizens from privately contracting for medical care. In other words, no matter how much money Canadians can afford to pay, they’re stuck in the public’s health care system waiting and waiting and waiting for care.
Or, when they can afford it, giving up on waiting and traveling to the U.S. to get it.
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