This was my heart, my choice and my health

Dennis Broyles made the wry remark that the only way to abolish differentials in service is to abolish money. I think what differentiates the Democratic Caucus from their opponents is that the latter accept service differentials which result from social stratification which result from impersonal processes like the market. The latter wish to replace this with service differentials driven largely by politically-determined criteria, i.e. by people like themselves.

You want congressmen to receive ObamaCare subsidies? Don’t you think they’re already getting enough?

A single payer system hasn’t been proposed. You also don’t seem to understand why he chose treatment here and not in Canada. It had nothing to do with standing in line.

Please change the name of your blog to “An American Catholic”.

You should not use “The American Catholic” unless your posts reflect the actual position of the Church. Yours do not.

There is at least one false statement in your commentary, but I ascribe that to a failure to read carefully. He said the particular surgery he wanted was not available in his province, not in Canada.

He consulted a graduate of a Newfoundland med school practicing in New Jersey, who sent him all the way to Florida for the surgery. Now the doctor in New Jersey is a renowned cardiac surgeon, so why did he send the premier to Florida? Could it be because the particular technique the premier wanted was uncommon, and the Florida surgeon did a lot of it?

He could have gotten the normal operation in his own province, or from his consultant in New Jersey, but he wanted a more complicated procedure that left a much smaller and less obvious scar.

Would your insurance pay for that? I doubt mine would, and I have very good insurance.

IOW, a very rich man got what he wanted. And I’ll bet he got a discounted price. If you wanted that same surgery you might have to pay more. After all, he had bargaining leverage, do you?

In Canada, if you need that condition, a leaking valve, treated, you get it treated, just not the way he did. In they US, if you need that condition treated, you get it treated, if you can pay for it. Otherwise, die vermin!

And in the US you will most likely get the treatment preferred in Canada, not the one you can buy in Florida. Unless you can pay for it yourself, that is.

The Catholic church is big on social justice, and universal health care. If you are not you can claim the perspective of a Catholic, but not “The” Catholic perspective.

“In they US, if you need that condition treated, you get it treated, if you can pay for it. Otherwise, die vermin!”

That is a lie. Everyone in the US receives treatment regardless of ability to pay. Most of the poor are covered by Medicaid. Those who are not still receive treatment.