Thursday, November 24, 2011

If healthcare is better in other countries, why did Ted Kennedy choose cancer treatment here in the US

If healthcare is better in other countries, why did Ted Kennedy choose cancer treatment here in the US?
<cant wait for the spin on this one> Youre dead wrong, it most definitely IS about the level of care!
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It's not about the level of care, it's about access.
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That's going to be tough to argue with. He sure as hell didn't go to Canada for their excellent care. It IS about the level of care! The current public option on the table would provide nowhere near the level of care that Congress receives!!!
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We have the best care money can buy, the funny thing is that you think you can afford that care.
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Out of patriotism. Note that American health care failed him - he's dead due to doctors greed.
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It's more the access to it, not having to go through HMOs and such.
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He's a rich elitist. He can afford expensive private doctors while he advocates that the rest of us peasants get on the public plan.
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He figured he might as well get some get Private Healthcare then get rationed like everywhere else? How do you take care of 50million more people with the Current # of doctors?
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The same reason why most people receive health care in their own countries. Oh! And Kennedy received government provided health care. He lived a long time. And, the health care debate is not concerned with the quality of the facilities, rather it is the quality of the insurance which allows access to them.
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I am not sure his life insurance includes expenses at Swiss clinics Besides drugs are everywhere the same. The only difference is that you guys pay more for your doctors and drugs and have uninsured people.
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Probably because he's a member of Congress, and they get the best PUBLIC CARE already available to them... Conservative Congress, isn't against public healthcare options...they are against public healthcare options for YOU AND ME !
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His insurance bureaucrats would not let him go outside the network.
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Because Medicare only works in the US. Why pay forhealth caree when it free here?
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It's not better! If Teddy was a "regular" person in another country, he would have had to wait for treatment!
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Why did Farrah Faucet keep leaving the country for treatment?
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he's dead though, maybe if he was here in the UK using our socialized health care service he would have lived longer, especially seeing as our life expectancy is longer.
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He gets it for free and we have the best cancer care. People come here from all over the world because we are the best. Peace
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Their health care is considered better mostly due to the access of preventive care, if he would have been Canadian he would feel like 40 at 77...
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Because this whole issue is not about health care...it's a power grab by the left to take over this free country and socialize it.
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Nobody says its better in other countries. The insurance system in the US sucks, not the care. So it is you who are applying the spin. I understand opposing Obama's plan, but anyone who goes with the "system is fine as is" argument is off their rocker.
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His job is in the US... but setting that aside, health care here is excellent...for some. Kennedy included. It is horrible for others. That's the problem.
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He was filthy rich and could afford the best treatment in the world. Where did he go to get his treatment? humm...Your question kinda answers itself. Good job. It's Bush's fault though remember.
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Like the rest of us in a free America, he had a CHOICE! So let's "do it for Teddy" and give us all the same CHOICE and leave government dictation out of it.
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Ted Kennedy had the best health insurance available in the USA, said health insurance subsidized by the taxpayers, why would he go to another country? Kennedy wanted to continue to appear in the Senate as long as he could. Considering that he had the best care available in the USA there was no need for him to go to another country. Americans who are denied care by their health insurance companies cannot afford to go to another country for treatment, can you? Level of care? From personal experience I received A+ care in three hospital stays in Western Europe all socialized health care. Spin that!
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He's a Kennedy. That's the only reason he was a lifetime senator. I hope he enjoyed his life of luxury on his families dollar and OURS. Sucks, but there was no way he would be given less than the best possible health care... after all he was a political icon. He knew where he wanted to get the best care, right here in the good ol' USA!
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Duh! because he lives here and he could afford it!!! But what he wanted for everyone else was to have healthcare as a fundamental right not as a privilege. Try going to one of those free health fares that travel around the US, and see people queuing up for two days like they do in Africa, hoping to get treatment they so desperately need but can't afford. Or as one doctor put it, the third world is here in America!
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Ted Kennedy was American that's why and the rate of Successful cancer recoveries is no greater in USA than anywhere else in The Western Civilized World. You have Fantastic Doctors but so do other Countries. Della Reese came to Canada for her Brain Aneurysm. TO LONDON ONTARIO .> CANADA. DELLA REESE WAS TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL IN THE FORM OF DR DRAKE FROM CANADA> In 1979, after taping a guest spot for The Tonight Show, she suffered a nearly fatal brain aneurysm, but made a full recovery after two operations by noted neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Drake at University Hospital in London, Ontario. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Reese#Personal_life There are World Famous Surgeon whose Techniques are used all over the World http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/To-Z/Transplant-Surgical.html Woman has first face transplant The operation lasted several hours Surgeons in France have carried out the first face transplant, it has been reported. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4484728.stm All over the World , we have excellent Doctors Famous Russian Doctors.. Too :) I am happy I am in Canada too I am treated the Best :)




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