I wonder why all of the studies of the quality of healthcare in various nations always rate the US at the bottom. Canada is always rated far above the US, yet Canada relies on the United States for part of their healtcare. Here is a blog by Don Surber on how Canada relies on the US, and asks the question what will Canada do if the US adopts socialized medicine asHillary and Obama propose?

Canadians will die if we adopt a universal health insurance plan.


“Single payer” are weasel words for government-run.

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Democrats have made it clear that they no longer want to pay top price for top service. They will save you money.

That will drive down the quality, availability and quantity of health care.

I know this because that is how it is done in every socialized medicine country.

In a column in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Lisa Priest explores: “Why Ontario keeps sending patients south.”

She has the numbers.

Heart patient with clogged arteries? You’re headed to Detroit for the same angioplasty that is offered in West Virginia apparently is not offered in Ontario. Curious.

High risk pregnancy? Enjoy the ride to Michigan. Charleston (population 50,000) has more neonatal intensive care units than Calgary (population 1 million). That’s why this summer those “Canadian” quadruplets were born in Great Falls, Mont., which also has more NICU beds than Calgary.

Hey, they can run for president of the United States in 2044.

Her article told the story of one heart patient, a Mr. Bialkowski, who was sent to Detroit.

The price to treat him, including a two-day hospital stay in March, 2007, was $40,826.21 (U.S.) With a 35 per cent discount from Henry Ford Hospital, the bill to the Ontario Health Insurance Plan tallied $26,537.03(U.S.), according to a health ministry document, a copy of which was sent to Mr. Bialkowski.

The father of six, a human resources manager for a manufacturing company based in Windsor, is back at the gym and feels great. It didn’t matter where he received the lifesaving care, he said, just so long as he obtained it.

“I guess the Canadian government took care of me,” he said.

The father of six, a human resources manager for a manufacturing company based in Windsor, is back at the gym and feels great. It didn’t matter where he received the lifesaving care, he said, just so long as he obtained it.

“I guess the Canadian government took care of me,” he said.

If by “took care” he means mooched off the United States, then I guess the Canadian government did just that.

But what happens when an Obama or another Clinton is elected president?

Maybe they can life flight heart patients to India