Canadian ER doc: "We are overwhelmed by you (expletive deleted) Americans"

January 23, 2007

Americans are Canada’s Mexicans. Too bad his solution is a single-payer system.



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{ 6 comments }

1 Anonymous January 23, 2007 at 10:23 am

I lived on the border of Canada for over five years. There were plenty of people crossing the border for treatment, but let me tell you they were coming from the North.

2 Anonymous January 23, 2007 at 11:03 am

An anonymous comment allegedly made to a friend of Ted Rall’s? Ted Rall? Not exactly the most credible source. And what would be the purpose of driving 8 hours from Manhattan to Quebec, when any emergency room in the U.S. would have to treat you, no questions asked.

3 Anonymous January 23, 2007 at 11:15 am

The neo-socialist left trying to fire back with ambiguous sources and fictitious stories. Typical…

4 Anonymous January 23, 2007 at 7:22 pm

Ah, but the best part was the “true” story of the wart that sunk its “root” down through his chest into an artery, causing so much blood loss that he went unconscious and awoke in the emergency room.

I think I read that in the Weekly World News.

5 Anonymous January 23, 2007 at 11:23 pm

..sounds like a girl I used to know…

6 T. Bruce McNeely January 24, 2007 at 7:56 am

Ah, but the best part was the “true” story of the wart that sunk its “root” down through his chest into an artery, causing so much blood loss that he went unconscious and awoke in the emergency room.

I think I read that in the Weekly World News.

I believe it. After all, Ted Rall IS a wart.

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