12 May 2010

Paging Tommy Douglas

Looks like there's still a few bugs in the system...

Joan King, 74, had a life-threatening brain aneurysm on Sunday, but no doctor in the province was available to treat her.

After a futile check with several hospitals, the Mississauga woman had to be airlifted to Buffalo for emergency surgery.

King is one of thousands of Ontario patients who are sent to the U.S. for health care — at a price to the taxpayer of more than $100 million a year, according to the Ministry of Health.
Hang on... didn't Dalton McSlippery just commit billions of taxpayer dollars to building giant fans?


8 comments:

oxygentax said...

Giant fans don't need to be rationed. Health care does. Don't you listen to their talking points Neo?

/sarc

Neo Conservative said...

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hmmm... how many doctors could you train... or mri machines could you buy... with just a piece of dalton's 15 billion dollars of green funding?

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ck said...

Funny how no one complained about our universal health care system say up until roughly 15 years ago; or even 10 years ago. Would you have entertained Americanizing our health care system even then? I seriously doubt it.

That incident wouldn't have happened in America's corporate health care system? It probably would have.

Don't like our public health care? Go to a private clinic and cut up your provincial health card. Problem solved.

What? you won't do that because you pay taxes to that? Tough! We pay into old age pension funds, Canada Pension funds, etc; and most of us will never retire.

Also, ever thought that the MRI machines and everything really do exist and are not being used? Never thought that Doctors and others in health industry are deliberately withholding services to get the American health care system here?

Neo Conservative said...

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"ck whispers... Never thought that Doctors and others in health industry are deliberately withholding services to get the American health care system here?"

uh, yeah sure, of course... that must be it.

anyway bro... hope you're feeling all warm & cozy in the "alien abduction" end of the pool.

and hey... watch out for those black helicopters.

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langmann said...

I love how nutbars think: "The evil doctor conspiracy." Ohhh.

Couldn't be 20 years of incompetent politicians pandering to a population of sheeple like ck who tsk tsk at everything Peter Mansbridge says at night on the evining News. The air is heating up, we'd better buy giant fans. What a bunch of chicken littles.

Neo Conservative said...

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"langmann says... 'The evil doctor conspiracy'."

yup... smart enough to get through med school... delusional enough to imagine they are the government.

methinks ck must be a huge austin powers fan.

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Greg said...

Billions on giant fans that won't spin on low wind speed days. On windy days OPG has to throttle back Niagara Falls power generation to allow the wind power into the system to keep it from being overloaded. Hydro power is the only type that can react fast enough to the fluctuations in wind. Not a single gram of carbon has ever been saved by wind. Dalty Lyin' McGoofy is easily the stupidest human to ever hold power.

Neo Conservative said...

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what dalton & company lack in smart... they make up for in sly...

"Premier Dalton McGuinty is defending an untendered, $81-million contract for an energy centre built to power a casino in Windsor."

say... whose riding is that?

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