Here Is How Socialized Medicine Does Not Work, Never Will

Thousands of Canadians travel to the Unites States to get health care denied to them in Canada. This proves that having insurance and getting health care are two different things. You can have 100% of the population covered by government insurance (socialized medicine) and have huge segments of the population denied health care.

The Canadian invasion of the U.S. to get good health care is not reported by our government press unless it is an unusual case. The one below slipped through the conspiracy of silence of our government and its mouth-organ press (the group-think American MSM).

A high level Canadian government official (roughly equivalent to a state governor here) wanted to get heart surgery without having his sternum and ribs broken to open his chest cavity. There are more advanced and better methods of operating to repair his heart that do not require breaking his bones to open his chest. But apparently they are not available under Canada's socialized medicine. So he came to America for the advanced surgery while it is still available here.

Here are excerpts from the article reporting on this case.

'My heart, my choice,' Williams says, defending decision for U.S. heart surgery
By Tara Brautigam (CP) – 17 hours ago

An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the controversial decision.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Williams said he went to Miami to have a "minimally invasive" surgery for an ailment first detected nearly a year ago, based on the advice of his doctors.

"This was my heart, my choice and my health," Williams said late Monday from his condominium in Sarasota, Fla.

"I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."

The 60-year-old Williams said doctors detected a heart murmur last spring and told him that one of his heart valves wasn't closing properly, creating a leakage.
He said he was told at the time that the problem was "moderate" and that he should come back for a checkup in six months.

Eight months later, in December, his doctors told him the problem had become severe and urged him to get his valve repaired immediately or risk heart failure, he said.
His doctors in Canada presented him with two options - a full or partial sternotomy, both of which would've required breaking bones, he said.

He said he spoke with and provided his medical information to a leading cardiac surgeon in New Jersey who is also from Newfoundland and Labrador. He advised him to seek treatment at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

That's where he was treated by Dr. Joseph Lamelas, a cardiac surgeon who has performed more than 8,000 open-heart surgeries.

Williams said Lamelas made an incision under his arm that didn't require any bone breakage.
"I wanted to get in, get out fast, get back to work in a short period of time," the premier said. source

Where Will Americans Go for Advanced Medical Care if Socialism Ruins our System?

Socialism and everything about it (share the wealth, government owned industry, tyranny, etc.) is a horrible abuse of people by their own government. Deliberately letting people suffer and die to protect a bunch of elite politicians and their power is a crime as well as a sin.

If Obamacare, or any watered down version of it, becomes law it will ruin health care in America. It will stop the engine of private enterprise bringing us new medicines, medical schools and improved teaching, new surgical and other medical procedures, and it will leave millions of Americans who now have the world's best health care without health care. Everyone will have insurance but a growing number will not have health care. No more guaranteed 911 pickup and transport to a hospital emergency room which must accept you and treat you (which provides health care to anyone in America with or without insurance).

Nope this will have to stop to. Treatment type, place, and time will be determined by the government, not by a patient and his physician.

Let Canada be a lesson.