Wlhat do you think of socialized health care?

Hospital Visitor: Excuse me, Sir, are you a doctor?
Man in White: No, I'm an orderly.
Hospital Visitor: Well there's a patient in the hallway who's fallen over with his walker, a lady is yelling that her intravenous has run dry, and a stranger with a machete knife in his pocket just entered a room.
Man in White: Well, helping patients with walkers isn't my specific job, and I don't have anything to do with IVs. (Condescendingly) As for the man with the machete knife, he's probably just carrying it around for his personal safety.
Hospital Visitor: Well where are the nurses??!! Where are the nurses?!! Where are the nurses?!!
Man in White: Oh, they're behind the desk in a locked room.
Hospital Visitor: The last time anyone ever invited me into their locked room activities was Roman Polansky through the movies in 'Rosemary's Baby'. They used their locked room at the top of the apartment building for their arcane activities.

Hospital Visitor: (Continued) What are they doing in there, negotiating who they are going to "put out" next?
Man in White: Hey you're hobbling around in a cast and crutches.
Hospital Visitor: I broke my leg.
Man in White: Well, why aren't you in here as a patient?
Hospital Visitor: The doctor said I'd be all right, as long as I stayed out of the hospital.
Man in White: Hmmm. It must have been an honest doctor. What was his name? Do you mind if I take it down in my black book?


You can go to http://freemasonrywatch.org/freemasonry_...

(scroll a bit over one-third way down)

to "Weyburn Lodge"
to find out more about the man who started it all in Canada. Read the caption underneath his picture. It should give you added insight into what socialized medical care is all about. The name is T.C. Douglas.

The man is Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather. Kiefer looks just like him, the poor guy.

spanner---socialized medicine is a disaster------free enterprise is still best by far.

Thanks for all the answers. You are right! It serves an agenda, but it has a lot of abuses. Poor people need treatment too, but a different plan of operation needs to be established. Report It

Are you for real, or are you writing a play? okay, socialized medicine is only good if you are healthy. if you are waiting for surgery that is not emergent, then wait your turn and prepare to pay lots o taxes. I am Canadian and I miss the fact that i could go to a doctor for my "female" issues and if i needed something, it didn't cost me a fortune. But I'm healthy, so it wasn't like I was going a lot. People will abuse this system as often as they can. Now I live in the U.S and I've had 2 kinds of health insurance. From a private company and BlueCross. With Blue Cross, i pay over 200 a month and i have a $2500 deductible, which once met, they pay for 80% of costs. This is good because I'm pregnant and the tests can get expensive. But if nothing happens to me otherwise, then I'm paying 200 a month for insurance that i really don't use. In the U.S, you need insurance for "what if". Many people do not have insurance so it comes out of taxpayers checks. But many of these people are chronically ill and will not receive regular care so their morbidity rate goes up. In Canada everyone is covered , but service is slow. Many people pay cash and go to the U.S to get surgery or whatever. Neither one is perfect, but my best advice is that you keep yourself healthy if you live in Canada, and try to get some health coverage in the U.S if you can.

I live in California.... I am a Paramedic... I am all for it... I am sick of giving my hard earned $ to peolpe who don't belong in AMERICA...... Did you know in California you can receive benifits without being a citzen... NOT OK .....

I think that socialized health care is a bad idea because in allows for substandard care due to lack of competition. By substandard I do not necessarily mean that the doctors are less capable, but rather quality of stay, procedure, and expense. Canadians in the US pay out the nose for health care because they don't have insurance, but if a US citizen is in Canada, we get priority, and at a much more affordable rate that in the States, real example: $500 in Canada, $3000 in US for angioplasty. Another real life example is a Canadian citizen having to wait more than 3 days for surgery for a compound fracture and dislocation due to having to "wait his turn." There does need to be some kind of health care reform in the US, but I do not think that turning the US into a pseudo-socialist country rather than a democracy is the answer. Furthermore, TAXES! I am not willing to pay even higher taxes to pay for the health care related expenses of a family whose head of household refuses to get a job, and rather drink away assistance checks.

Sucks