Canadian Premier Heads to US for Heart Surgery

National Post: Mr. Williams' decision to leave Canada for the surgery has raised eyebrows over his apparent shunning of Canada's health-care system.

February 2, 2010 at 12:20 pm - CBC News
Dateline: St. John's, NL Canada
CyniKal   February 2nd, 2010 - 12:24 pm

WTF?

But, but…

thefedupamerican   February 2nd, 2010 - 12:28 pm

Just one more reason NOT to have socialized medicine a/k/a Obamacare in this country….just where will Canadians go when the need REAL medical care? http://www.thefedupamerican.com

Eddie   February 2nd, 2010 - 12:28 pm

I can hear the teeth grinding in Washington right now! I don’t expect to see this covered to any degree on the MSM either. We’ll see.

peter c   February 2nd, 2010 - 12:33 pm

Another story the Lame Stream media will bury….because all the Progressive-Communist-Socialists use Canada as a model for their Socialist Health Care Bills….and this would help to further damage that insane cause.

But FOX…Thank God…will cover it and probably Beck also.

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Lisa B.   February 2nd, 2010 - 12:33 pm

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TomFarrell   February 2nd, 2010 - 12:57 pm

Do you folks realize that if Canada had the problem with illegal immigrants like we do,as well as had to pay for a real military instead of living parasitically under our protection, their beloved healthcare system would have collapsed twenty years ago.

Steve in Phoenix   February 2nd, 2010 - 12:59 pm

Well I guess we will see an influx of wealthy sick people from all over the world trying to beat the obama dealine for health care reform. We shoud have a close out sale on Quality Heart Surgery.

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Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   February 2nd, 2010 - 1:21 pm

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Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   February 2nd, 2010 - 1:22 pm

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And this is the kind of insurance (Canada) that Bilderberg Bush-Obama and his equally ‘mentally unstable’ Democratzi want for Americ???? You bet it is!

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go-saints   February 2nd, 2010 - 1:30 pm

So iam leaving L.A to go to Mexico for a operation in the next 2 months, Does that mean we don’t have doctors here to do that …NO !! all it means it will be cheaper. Mind you the clinic we are going to in mexico are run by U.S doctors.

So why would i think that Canada don’t have the way all to handle that .I visit Canada 2 yrs ago and could tell you the hospitals are soo clean you can eat off the floor never seen anything like it here,I did pass to pick up some cheap prescription drug on the way back.

Countries with the Best Health Care
1 France
2 Japan
3 Australia
4 Spain
5 Italy
6 Canada
7 Norway
8 Netherlands
9 Sweden
10 Greece
11 Austria
12 Germany
13 Finland
14 New Zealand
15 Denmark

my-cat-bow-will-breitbart-cover-it   February 2nd, 2010 - 1:37 pm

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I watch this .. so what!! i never heard in this piece Canada don’t have the doctors to do the job and people are dying left right and center.So just like president Obama bow is this really a story …hardly.

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Lawrence   February 2nd, 2010 - 1:52 pm

Kinda says it all.

txmike   February 2nd, 2010 - 1:55 pm

Can we send Obama to Canada for brain surgery. It is perfectly clear that obama needs some kind of work done up there.

YR   February 2nd, 2010 - 1:57 pm

my lord, hasn’t that guy heard we have the worst health care in the world?!

temple62   February 2nd, 2010 - 2:06 pm

So…we can’t believe in Michael Moore’s premise? Dah, so much for socialism.

Lawrence   February 2nd, 2010 - 2:08 pm

Agree ! Nothing to see here.Now can breitbart put up videos of people dying here in our emergency rooms and they are many on youtube.Something you can’t say you would see in those countries with top healthcare.

Another case of a selective story to try and bash another country, but DON”T really tell the true tale of OUR BROKEN healthcare system.

Drano   February 2nd, 2010 - 2:08 pm

If we go socialist with our health care what will the Canadians do for health care ???

lol lol lol

Money can’t buy this kind of publicity against socialized health care. This guy should be the national poster child for ObamaCare for the US.

wake_UP   February 2nd, 2010 - 2:17 pm

Our problem in America have never been about CARE its about COST ,WE pay 3 times than other countries yet we still have to buy insurance to get care ,while other countries give free care to their citizens. And thats hardly any comfort for poor people or people who lost their job here that can’t get top care….or worse get deny with insurance coverage.

R from ID   February 2nd, 2010 - 2:41 pm

The one CBC reporters seem to be class envious. Sound familiar? The other says if he had the money he might go to the US for health care, too. We were told health care was superior in Canada.

Our problem is not our actual health care, it’s our health costs. Lower the costs through more competition. Allow health insurance companies to compete across state borders and allow tort reform.

The government finds a way to make it difficult so we have to rely on them.

Plain and simple.

Do you blame him?   February 2nd, 2010 - 2:54 pm

This guy is not stupid. He knows socialized health care is inferior.

to go saints   February 2nd, 2010 - 3:15 pm

If anyone believes that all these countries have better health care then America must be naive. Most of the countiries mentioned if not all would not have any health care if they started putting some money into a military that could protect them and not rely on the U.S.A to do it for them. I’ll bet noone has been treated in these countries that is wrting on this thread. The only people that go to Mexico for medical treat are usually trying some voodoo therapy for a terminal disease. Almond and apricot douches for cancer isn’t recognized in most civilized cultures especially the U.S.A.

anon   February 2nd, 2010 - 3:31 pm

He’d better hurry up. It’s only one vote short, right?

Wanda   February 2nd, 2010 - 3:38 pm

You know if we didnt treat so many illegales for free in this country the hospitals wouldnt have to keep upping everyone elses bills to pay for the ones that never get paid thats part of the reason our health care is so much.

sean oneill   February 2nd, 2010 - 3:45 pm

If I were worth 300 million + I’d haul ass to the US too for heart surgery.He’s not allowed to spend his own money on a private practitioner in Canada.It’s illegal.And, he can’t jump the long line in front of him there!Smart move on his part…now all he has to do is jump on his soap box to explain this to the voters who put him into office.As I understand it, he’s a big supporter of the social medicine system in place in Canada and Newfoundland?I hope he can pull rabits out of hats!!

Canadian Hot Shots Won't Touch Socialized Medicine   February 2nd, 2010 - 3:52 pm

He’s not the only one.

a)Former Prime Minister Chretien – many trips to the Mayo Clinic using Canadian Airforce One
b)Former Premier of Quebec, Bourrassa – took his skin cancer to Sloan Kettering
c)Canadian Cable Magnate – Ted Rogers – had his heart bypass in Cleveland (and he was director/chairman or something of a major canadian hospital at the time (or his wife was))

The Canadian hot shots won’t touch socialized medicine.

NEOFREEDOM   February 2nd, 2010 - 3:55 pm

Iam a Canadian and good for Danny Williams and thank you USA for your health system it is only the best system in the WORLD !

HEALTH IS NOT A POLITICAL DECISION, IT IS A PERSONAL CHOICE AND IF ONE CAN AFFORD TO USE THE BEST, GOD BLESS THEM FOR THEIR HARD WORK !

Webster   February 2nd, 2010 - 3:56 pm

The morbidity and mortality rate at top US institutions blow away anybody in the world.

north-and-free   February 2nd, 2010 - 4:23 pm

I did some research this guy lives in newfoundland , thats like living in the backways of alaska or the north pole. had he been living in the big cities like Toronto, no way this move would be made.but it appears he is a odd guy anyhow.

OED   February 2nd, 2010 - 4:29 pm

Please define “neofreedom.”

you-have-been-terminated   February 2nd, 2010 - 4:31 pm

Iam a Canadian and good for Danny Williams and thank you USA for your health system it is only the best system in the WORLD .

NEOFREEDOM February 2nd, 2010 – 3:55 pm
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STOP YOUR LYING !! you are NOT Canadian, i have been watching your name and post for a few months now, and you always saying you are a proud republican american, and always dissing president Obama .

you come and lie on a thread, tells me you live a pathetic life , now can you move out of your parents basement and get a life..

Joe   February 2nd, 2010 - 4:50 pm

Smart man!!

BTW.. go saints, your list is a myth. And made up by a bunch of socialist liberals!! Just like the global warming scam. Go to mexico and have your operation. If you actualy trust them and there conditions you really are a fool!!

Thor   February 2nd, 2010 - 4:53 pm

Coming to America for medical treatment! Does anything else need to be said?

go-saints   February 2nd, 2010 - 5:15 pm

Go to mexico and have your operation. If you actualy trust them and there conditions you really are a fool!!

Joe February 2nd, 2010 – 4:50 pm

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You are not very smart are you , before you open your pie hole’ know of what you speak , I have been there before, The clinic is like a hotel resort, when you enter you forget you are in mexico, it is run by american doctors ,i think your ignorance thought i was going to a mexican run clinic.the only difference here its very very cheap.

Gandhi's Fist   February 2nd, 2010 - 5:50 pm

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, Canadian health care is awesome–if you’re healthy. Obama’s socialized medicine boondoggle is an outrage and thankfully, Scott Brown has slowed the Marxist juggernaut that is the dem machine.

Gandhi's Fist   February 2nd, 2010 - 5:51 pm

BTW: There are great Canadian heart surgeons and they’re all working in the states.

bunkerbill   February 2nd, 2010 - 5:53 pm

This is great stuff, the only thing that could top it would be, “Al Gore gets frostbite while speaking at global warming conference in Florida”.

Joe Ryder   February 2nd, 2010 - 6:35 pm

go-saints …

Your words are hollow and fall on deaf ears. I have yet to walk into a filthy hospital in the US. I have had 8 surgeries including heart and thank God that I have been blessed to be an American. I would not consider going to another Country for surgery because of the expense. There is a reason that people are coming here. Using your logic it would be too expensive to have a procedure done here but yet other nationalities come here for their healthcare, why? Because they want to ay more? No because they need the best care. If things are so clean and cheap in Mexico why are they crossing the border to come here. Same with Canada. While you leave the country why don’t you just stay there for the next 30 years. When you come back you will have more respect for your Country.

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a   February 2nd, 2010 - 7:21 pm

the United States has some great heart surgeons. Trust me.

Noreen   February 2nd, 2010 - 7:55 pm

Has anyone done a survey to see how many Canadians are currently patients in US hospitals, clinics, etc., i.e., they came here to have surgery or some other procedure? How many have been in this category for the last 10 years?!!!

Ted   February 3rd, 2010 - 12:56 am

If the plan being proposed was so great, why are certain groups being given exemptions?

sean oneill   February 3rd, 2010 - 12:21 pm

north and free….You’re full of it bud!Newfoundland is a beautiful place to live or visit.I have been there a few times over the years and it’s no backwater…in fact…in the city of St.Johns there are more engineers and professional people,per-capita, than in any other city in Canada.Memorial University turns out some of the best engineers in the world.I know I’ve worked with some of them.So get your head out of your butt before you smother on your own stink!

sean oneill   February 3rd, 2010 - 12:39 pm

north and free,also,you need to get out and about more often!Williams could have went anywhere he wanted for his procedure…he’s worth about 300 million dollars….he ran his own cable television corp. and sold out to rogers cable a few years back.He sold out for 250 million dollars.You’ve heard of rogers cable of course?They have a monopoly on cable television and phone services throughout Canada.I’m an American and even I know that.As to your point that he could have went to “Toronto” for his medical problem, why didn’t he?Because we, in the USA, (contrary to what many of your elitist countrymen think and are told by your media),do have the best medical system in the world.Bar none!And you can squawk till the cows come home and that won’t change an iota!

Newfie   February 3rd, 2010 - 1:20 pm

St. John’s also has more breweries per capita than any other city in Canada.

james   February 4th, 2010 - 2:29 am

canada has regular tours to buffulo hospitals, for canadain citizens who dont want to wait months for treatment in canada.hospitals make special arraingments for canadian citizens….go figure?

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