With the help of the unforgivable traitors Specter, Collins, and
Snowe, the Senate has passed the pork-laden socialist power play the
media complicitly calls a "stimulus package." Predictably, the stock
market has reacted by going into freefall.
In addition to burying the economy in senseless debt that we may never
be able to repay and setting the table for Zimbabwe-style inflation
rates, Porkzilla allows the federal government to ration healthcare.
Combined with last week's expansion of SCHIP, this means we
essentially already have socialized medicine. For an idea of what this
means, we need look no farther than Canada:
In Ontario, Lindsay McCreith was suffering from headaches and
seizures yet faced a four and a half month wait for an MRI scan in
January of 2006. Deciding that the wait was untenable, Mr. McCreith
did what a lot of Canadians do: He went south, and paid for an MRI
scan across the border in Buffalo. The MRI revealed a malignant brain
tumor.
Ontario's government system still refused to provide timely
treatment, offering instead a months-long wait for surgery. In the
end, Mr. McCreith returned to Buffalo and paid for surgery that may
have saved his life.
Too bad escaping to America won't be an option, when America has
undergone Change and isn't here anymore.
Those who are deemed by the bureaucracy to be too old will be up a
creek when they need healthcare. Ask Bill Murray of Alberta, who
waited in pain for more than a year to see a specialist for his
arthritic hip. The specialist recommended a "Birmingham" hip
resurfacing surgery (a state-of-the-art procedure that gives better
results than basic hip replacement) as the best medical option. But
government bureaucrats determined that Mr. Murray, who was 57, was
"too old" to enjoy the benefits of this procedure and said no. In the
end, he was also denied the opportunity to pay for the procedure
himself in Alberta.
We have fought major wars over far less than what Democrats have been
able to impose on this country in only three weeks of control in
Washington.
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