Mayor De Blasio Announces Health Care For All NYC Residents

So welcoming the Sick and unhealthy is smart ? To a MAJOR population center ???? REALLY

Worst measles outbreak in decades sweeps New York as cases surge in Oregon, Washington and abroad

At least 160 people in New York have been infected with measles

Thats today's news without the red carpet being rolled out.

Snap, I'm gonna rent a fleet of vehicles to ship in all the homeless, druggies, and general poor people into NYC from Ohio, with a pamphlet on how to become a NY resident. This is gonna be a hoot.


Anyone wanna fund my venture?

originally posted by: IAMTAT
I had a (very) tiny 1 BR apt. on E.25th. street between 2nd. & 3rd. ave in Manhattan...

Close to Bellevue, convenient.

originally posted by: Muninn

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck

originally posted by: queenofswords
a reply to: JohnnyCanuck
Why do so many Canadians come to the US for treatment?

How many would that be? Please, do tell. I don't know one (and I know a lot of folks).

2014 estimate is 52513 Canadians received non emergency medical treatments in the US and abroad, a 25 % increase of the previous year.

Key phrase is non emergency. Elective surgeries, queue-jumping, even provincially-paid services such as MRIs in border regions to take advantage of unused American clinic time. Quick jaunt to Buffalo for a night-time scan to take some pressure off of our system. It ain't perfect, but I have never met a Canadian who would swap for America's. An' like I said...I know a lot of folks.

a reply to: JohnnyCanuck

Move those goal posts.

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck

originally posted by: Muninn

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck

originally posted by: queenofswords
a reply to: JohnnyCanuck
Why do so many Canadians come to the US for treatment?

How many would that be? Please, do tell. I don't know one (and I know a lot of folks).

2014 estimate is 52513 Canadians received non emergency medical treatments in the US and abroad, a 25 % increase of the previous year.

Key phrase is non emergency. Elective surgeries, queue-jumping, even provincially-paid services such as MRIs in border regions to take advantage of unused American clinic time. Quick jaunt to Buffalo for a night-time scan to take some pressure off of our system. It ain't perfect, but I have never met a Canadian who would swap for America's. An' like I said...I know a lot of folks.

Is also worth noting its an extremely dodgy estimate, made by a right wing think tank, by polling doctors (not patients) and asking them to guess how many patients went abroad.

a reply to: JohnnyCanuck

Except it would take 10 years to get an appointment, and well, it's Canada, so who wants to go to a third world country for treatment .

originally posted by: JDmOKI
a reply to: CornishCeltGuy

Compare populations. all of the UK 66 million people compared to 325 million in the US.

Brits are really good at making their system seem magical while everything burns around them.

500 million people in the EU have tax funded healthcare. Try again mate.

a reply to: DanDanDat

Wow. So how much is this going to cost us?

Also undocumented immigrants? Can he divert our tax dollars to foreign nationals like that?

Sounds like I just lost more of my paycheck.

I don't like my mayor. I didn't vote for the C word.

originally posted by: lakenheath24
a reply to: JohnnyCanuck
Except it would take 10 years to get an appointment, and well, it's Canada, so who wants to go to a third world country for treatment .

Absolutely! And our beer sucks, too!

a reply to: CornishCeltGuy

Be honest, acute care on the NHS is fantastic. Routine stuff? 1-2 years to get that hip replacement mentioned above. Chronic shortage of staff, and chronically underfinanced. Christ...its on Jeremy Vine second only to Brexit.

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
but I have never met a Canadian who would swap for America's.[/pic]

I've never met anyone from any nation in the world who would want the US healthcare system, even in Laos.
Yet still they defend it while the 500 million in the EU look on and feel sorry for their people.

a reply to: JohnnyCanuck

"Quick jaunt to Buffalo for a night-time scan to take some pressure off of our system." Way to bury the lead there.

There isn't any "unused clinic time" in the US. You'll wait for almost any doctor, but a typical wait time is a couple of days, not weeks or months like in Canada.

a reply to: tadaman

so are you a millionaire ?

Nothing like a healthy homeless population!!

a reply to: zenartist

I'm sorry?

NYC residents have many options for which we are already taxed. Heavily.

a reply to: JohnnyCanuck

LOL. Actually I was always a St. Pauli Girl fan. Oh wait thats German. Ummm, Corona is good....snap....that Mexican. Hang on and let me google Canadia and beer eh.

a reply to: lakenheath24

Canada has been ranked as the number one best country for quality of life for the past three years. While their healthcare system may not be the best example of universal healthcare (France) they're clearly doing something right up there.

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck

originally posted by: BTPowers

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck

originally posted by: CornishCeltGuy
I don't have a dog in this fight being a Brit, but I'd just like to say I'd wish my tax funded healthcare for everyone in the world. 500 million EU nationals have similar, it is only the US as a developed nation which doesn't offer such a system...
It is the sign of a civilised society in my opinion.

Amen to that, cousin! Cured of prostate cancer for $32 out of pocket. Dare to demand better, America!

Out of YOUR pocket, the rest came out of everyone's taxes. There's no free ride. If you like your healthcare, thank a rich person, they're subsidizing it.

No, I thank me, my neighbours, anyone who contributes to the tax base. We all pull together and we take care of each other. And our standard of living is at least as good as yours. Yes, Sparky...it CAN be done! Demand Better!

"The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
a reply to: JohnnyCanuck
I"Quick jaunt to Buffalo for a night-time scan to take some pressure off of our system." Way to bury the lead there.
There isn't any "unused clinic time" in the US. You'll wait for almost any doctor, but a typical wait time is a couple of days, not weeks or months like in Canada.

Spent a lot of time in our system have you?