On May 8, 11:38=A0am, eldorado <eldor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> =A0 Riki Tiki Tavi <ti...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> repeating republican talking
> points stated:
>
> >I'm talking about why Canucks stream south to get surgery HERE!
>
> The question should also be asked why so many Americans stream north
> for healthcare?
>
>
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=3D9F0CE7D8143AF933A15751...=
>
> =A0 Lacking a national health care system of their own, thousands of
> Americans are tapping into Canada's -- illegally.
>
> "It's not an epidemic in any one person's practice," said Keith MacLeod,
> an obstetrician in Windsor, Ontario, across from Detroit, "but I would
> estimate that from 12
> to 20 of my patients at any one time are ineligible Americans. And I'm
> just one of 520 doctors in Windsor, 23,000 in Ontario."
>
> Dr. MacLeod, former president of the Es*** County Medical Society,
> delivers about 400 babies a year.
>
> A re****t prepared for Ontario's Health Minister indicated that from
August=
> 1992 to February 1993, 60,000 medical claims had been made on behalf of
> patients who held
> American drivers' licenses. The total number of improper claims in
Ontario=
> was estimated at 600,000.
>
> <rest of rather lengthy article snipped..please click on link above for
> entire article.>
>
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> Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups.
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I have talked to people who have gotten prescription medicines much
cheaper from Canada than they could through the United States
insurance boondoggle.
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