MACK DADDY wrote:
> On May 8, 11:38 am, eldorado <eldor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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=9F0CE7D8143AF933A15751...
>>
>> 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
I bet you have, just not legally....
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