CALL IT WHAT YOU LIKE, BUT FINALLY SOME KIND OF NATIONAL HEALTH CARE IS COMING TO THE USA THROUGH PRESIDENT OBAMA.
SOME MAY WANT TO CALL IT "SOCIALISM" SOME "COMMUNISM."
WELL .... LET ME GIVE YOU A PERSONAL EXAMPLE OF HEALTH CARE IN CANADA.
SOME YEARS AGO I WAS RIDING MY HORSE GOLDIE DOWN A STEEP HILLSIDE; IT HAD RAINED THE DAY BEFORE. I WOKE UP SITTING PERFECT IN THE SADDLE GOING INTO THE VALLEY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL. MYSELF AND GOLDIE WERE COVERED WITH MUD, MY LEFT SIDE AND HER LEFT SIDE FROM EYES TO TAIL. I HAD SUFFERED A CONCUSSION [HAD GONE BLANK IN MY MIND] AND COULD NOT REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. NEVER DID REMEMBER TO THIS DAY. OBVIOUSLY GOLDIE HAD SLIPPED ON HER LEFT SIDE DOWN A MUDDY SLOPE, I WAS ABLE TO STAY IN THE SADDLE, BUT MY MIND WENT BLANK SOMEWHERE IN IT ALL, UNTIL I WOKE UP STILL ON GOLDIE IN THE VALLEY.
WELL THOUGHT I BETTER MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IN ME WAS STILL FINE, SO SET UP APPOINTMENT FOR CAT-SCAN, HEART WHATEVER .... 3 OR 4 THINGS TO CHECK. CAME THROUGH ALL OF THEM JUST FINE. AND IT DID NOT COST ME A PENNY, WAS ALL DONE UNDER CANADA'S NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM.
ONE TIME I FELL OFF A HORSE AND THOUGHT I HAD JUST SPRAINED MY WRIST, DID NOT HURT MUCH AT ALL; PUT SOME SPRAIN OINTMENT ON AND A TENSOR BANDAGE. BUT AFTER 3 WEEKS WAS NOT HEALING AS IT SHOULD FOR JUST A SPRAIN. WENT TO MY DOCTOR, SHE SENT ME TO HAVE EX-RAY. CALLED ME BACK WITHIN TWO HOURS WITH THE NEWS I HAD A FRACTURE, AND NEEDED TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER WORK OF CASTING IT OR WHATEVER THEY DECIDED. WENT, THEY PUT A HODING SPINT ON [WHICH I PAID FOR - $20] AND TOLD ME TO SET AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE THE SPECIALIST/SURGON. SAW HIM A FEW DAYS LATER. TOOK ANOTHER EX-RAY; HE THOUGHT THE SPLINT WAS GOOD AND MY FRACTURE WAS HEALING, AND SHOULD BE FINE AGAIN IN TIME, BUT THEY WOULD MONITOR IT. AND THEY DID, WITH OTHER APPOINTMENTS.
ALL THIS AND I DID NOT HAVE TO PAY A PENNY FOR ANY APPOINTMENTS, EX-RAYS, OR THEIR SKILLED SERVICE. ALL COVERED UNDER CANADA HEALTH SYSTEM. IF I HAD HAD TO HAVE SURGERY THAT ALSO WOULD NOT HAVE COST ME A PENNY.
SO WELCOME USA TO NATIONAL HEALTH CARE.
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