The Red Brick Times

"We are overwhelmed by you (expletive deleted) Americans," an exasperated emergency-room physician at a Canadian hospital across the border from upstate New York told one of my friends, whose girlfriend had driven him the eight hours from Manhattan to Quebec after he'd fallen down some stairs and broken his arm.

We are Canada's Mexicans.

Posted 9:22 PM by whatley (3) comments

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What's a matter mookie? American health care system got you down? Play this State of the Union Address Drinking Game and you'll feel better. For a while.

# posted by  whatley : January 22, 2007 9:29 PM
 
Sometimes I feel bad because Marsha's job comes with really good health care, but its worth about $7,000 a year. Any profits more than 10 percent above the previous year(adjusted for inflation) should be considered windfalls and taxed accordingly. Single payer National Health would remove the medical liability component from all our other insurances (home, auto, business)since it would be redundant. The states could become the guarantor for medical malpractice as the agency responsible for issuing licenses to practice medicine. An honest error would not bankrupt a doctor and real malpractice would result in permanent loss of license. Doctor's fees should go down.

Glad I was able to straighten this out for everyone, what's next on the agenda?

# posted by  A. O. : January 23, 2007 12:07 AM
 
Um. Whirled peas?

# posted by  Andy : January 25, 2007 5:56 AM
 
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