Recently, the entire province of Ontario couldn’t come up with an incubator for a very premature infant, so they turned to Buffalo, NY for help. And the US took ‘em in.

In England, a 3-year-old girl with a severe heart defect (she’s already had at least one stroke) just had her life-saving surgery postponed for the third time because of a lack of a bed.

Yeah, it’s “free.” At no charge, we’ll ship your kid out of the country, or make her sit around and wait over and over again, praying she doesn’t die.

Everyone says they want a better system than ours. But when the chips are down, where the rubber meets the road, when it’s THEIR lives on the line, all the “free” systems get tossed aside.

J.

I’m SO stealing that.

But you still have a health system that’s the envy of the world, don’t you?

Southern Man…Southern Strategy.

“This drug costs $50.00 here.”

“But you sell it for $25.00 in Canada.”

“That’s because the Canadian government makes sell it at that price. We actually lose money on those sales, but we make up for it with other drugs there, and higher prices here, so we can continue to develop new drugs.”

“I don’t wanna pay $50.00. I wanna pay $25.00, so I’ll buy it from a Canadian pharmacy and have them ship it to me down here.”

At that point the drug company decides to either cut back on how much of that drug they ship to Canada, or end it entirely. The Canadian government, seeing its own citizens with need for that drug getting screwed, crack down on shipping drugs into the United States.

Like I said, it’s “laundering.” The American-made drugs are shipped to Canada purely to get access to the Canadian pricing system, then brought back to the United States at an artificially low price.

J.

Yah; his politics absolutely detracts from his music.

Better put them back; he was never anything but Left leaning.

Left-leaning is ok, jrfunk. He went crazy left. CSS crazy. It’s kinda sad. All that talent. Just nuts.

Yup, the whole nation is profiting from our legal drug trade.

You just have no idea how ludicrous that sounds, do you?

I’m Jamaican; let’s hear your diatribes against my birthplace now.

Funkenstein is a sock puppet for CSS.’

Naturally, since all Canadians know one another.

No thanks; but I have nothing against you loving it.

Enjoy.

Better put them back; he was never anything but Left leaning.

And you couldn’t be ANYTHING but American.

As you apparently cannot post anything without insults, leaving no doubt as the strength of your ‘arguments’ that have to be propped up with a litany of abusive comments, allow me to respond in kind;

You are an amorphous barge, floating on the sea of pomposity, steered by ignorance.

Happy Fourth of July.

Drug laundering is where you take American drugs, “launder” them through the Canadian socialized medicine, and re-sell them to Americans. The joy of this system is that, sooner or later, the drug companies will get tired of losing money through it and limit the drugs they import to Canada.

It’d be fascinating to see what would happen if the drug companies just up and said “we’re tired of being called the devil. So for one month, we’re gonna shut down entirely. Lay off all our employees, shut down all our plants and labs, just take four weeks and chill. And after that, we’ll see if we start up again.”

J.

Republican Billy Tauzin handed the corporate-drug-industry billions of tax payer dollars as a Republican Representative and then got one of the highest paying lobbyist jobs ever from the same corporate-drug-industry.

But that’s what right wingers do: Protect the Rich Crook.

Funkenstein is a sock puppet for CSS.

Oh, CSS Phd in Movies?…..Fail

Twice in my lifetime, Canada has done a tremendous service to America. Back during the Iran Hostage Crisis, the Canadian embassy took in quite a few Americans and smuggled them out of the country safely. And on 9/11, Canada took in a shitload of airliners and passengers (many in Gander, Newfoundland) and proved once again how fantastic hosts Canadians can be, and how fortunate we are to have them to our north.

For those and many other reasons, I’m willing to forgive them assholes like Strowbridge.

Celine Dion, on the other hand…

J.

Go and watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog. The song it’s from is near the end, but one of the best.

J.

“How’s your health?

It’s really bad, isn’t it? ”

You are an obsessed little sewer rat aren’t you. If you leave me directions I’ll come piss on your grave.