#Palindrone comes out in favor of health care reform -- for Canada
5292 Dead, 425 since 1/20/09
[Well, she -is- an expert. Not only can she see Ottawa from her front
porch, but she can sorta say all the words to "Frere Jacques".]
Palin Suggests Reforming Canada’s Universal Health Care System: ‘Let The
Private Sector Take Over’
Canadian comedian Mary Walsh (playing the character of Marg Delahunty)
attended a Sarah Palin book signing in the United States last week and
asked the “thrilla from Wasilla, the Alaskan Aphrodite” if she had “any
words of encouragement for the Canadian conservatives who have worked so
hard to try to diminish that kind of socialized medicine we have up
there.”
“Keep the faith and that common-sense conservatism,” Palin said to Walsh,
who was being pushed out of the store by bodyguards. “It needs to be
plugged into Canadian policies too. Keep the faith!” Palin cried out.
After the event, Walsh waited in the loading dock of the Borders
bookstore “close to where Palin’s bus was parked.” Palin came over and
energetically encouraged Walsh to “keep the faith” again and suggested
that Canada needs to reform its health care system to “let the private
sector take over”:
WALSH: Ms. Palin, I tried to ask you a question inside, but I didn’t
hear your answer! The Canadians! Ms. Palin!
PALIN: Well, my answer was too keep the faith. My answer was to keep
the faith. Cause that common sense conservatism can be plugged-in there
in Canada too. In fact Canada needs to reform its health care system and
let the private sector take over some of what the government has
absorbed. So thank you, keep the faith.
Watch it:
In Canada, “the private sector” is already “a crucial part” of the
Canadian health care system. The federal government finances the basic
health care plan, (through a “Medicaid-like arrangement in which Canada’s
10 provinces and 2 territories jointly fund” the system), but care is
independently organized and managed by each province or territory.
Canadians spend billions on private supplemental coverage and physicians
work in private practices. Everyone has access to care, and patients “can
see any doctor they want anywhere in the country with no copays or
deductibles.”
While the system has longer waiting periods for certain elective
surgeries, research suggests that Canadians do enjoy better access to
care and “superior” health outcomes compared to Americans. According to a
Commonwealth Fund of deaths that could have been prevented “with access
to quality medical care in the leading 19 industrialized countries,” the
United States ranked last and Canada came in sixth.
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Slavery: The belief that people can be property
Corporatism: The belief that property can be people.
Rightard Dumbwads
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I heard Palin will be signing Sinatra's book on Black Friday and John
Lennon's book on New Years Day.