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April 19, 2006
Medical Moonbattery
Posted by Dave Blount at April 19, 2006 12:01 PM
Tanya Bainbridge, a 57-year-old former British sailor who used to be named Brian, was treated at taxpayer's expense to a £20,000 sex-change operation in 2001. Now he/she has been approved for a £2,500 procedure to have his/her tattoos removed because they make him/her feel "unladylike."
Miss Bainbridge has fathered 9 children by several different mothers, but now he/she lives with his/her boyfriend, both of whom are unemployed.
Meanwhile thousands of British nurses and doctors are losing their jobs in cuts due to the financial unworkability of socialized medicine, and Claire McDonnell, a 33-year-old mother of three, has been refused Herceptin to treat her breast cancer because it's too pricey. The cost would be £2,500 — the same amount taxpayers will be shelling out to make Bainbridge feel more ladylike.
If that's not enough insanity, here's more:
The USA, with the best healthcare in the world, is deliberately moving toward the dysfunctional socialist model. Crazier yet, Republicans are largely to blame. What Amity Shlaes calls "Canada Creep" has led Governor Mitt Romney to sow malignant seeds of socialism in the receptive soil of Massachusetts. Voters want all the "free" health care goodies Canadians supposedly have, not realizing that, in the words of Edwin Coffey, former president of the Quebec Medical Association, "access to a waiting list is not the same as access to health care."
As Shlaes observes:
Every year the Fraser Institute, a free-market think tank in Vancouver, British Columbia, produces "Waiting Your Turn," a survey of the wait times for various medical procedures. Romney might find it worth perusing. The average is 17 weeks, almost double what it was a decade ago. In Saskatchewan, the wait is 25 weeks.
The result is the flipside of Canada Creep: Canadians crossing the border to get timely health care. When our own health care system has been socialized to the point of uselessness, where will we go to get through the bureaucrats to a doctor?
