Comments on: Marrying a Canadian for health care http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/marrying-canadian-for-health-care.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/marrying-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79860 Anonymous Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:49:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/marrying-a-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79860 See the above posts from Kevin regarding patients coming from Canada to get treatments denied them due to rationing and government policy.<br/><br/>But as said, her issue is not access to healthcare, she's trying to make an idiotic political point. Such is the Seattle chattering class. See the above posts from Kevin regarding patients coming from Canada to get treatments denied them due to rationing and government policy.

But as said, her issue is not access to healthcare, she’s trying to make an idiotic political point. Such is the Seattle chattering class.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/marrying-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79848 Anonymous Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:17:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/marrying-a-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79848 Of course the other issue is she may not even get the chemo/rad tx (thanks to rationing) that she recieves in this country. Of course the other issue is she may not even get the chemo/rad tx (thanks to rationing) that she recieves in this country.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/marrying-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79830 Anonymous Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:09:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/marrying-a-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79830 Anon 9:11, I appreciate your feeling. Let me tap your brain on the concept, though. I assume you are Canadian.<br/><br/>If healthcare is the issue, why would she even have to marry a Canadian, why not just move to Canada?<br/><br/>I don't know the immigration rules there. It is my understanding that Canadian immigration, like Australian immigration, is more skills-based than the USA. You have a needed skill, you get in. Last time I read about it, it seemed like we should be doing the same in the USA.<br/><br/>Assuming your country had a dire need for free-lance writers for yuppie magazines, and she were admitted, could she not get health coverage on short notice? Anon 9:11, I appreciate your feeling. Let me tap your brain on the concept, though. I assume you are Canadian.

If healthcare is the issue, why would she even have to marry a Canadian, why not just move to Canada?

I don’t know the immigration rules there. It is my understanding that Canadian immigration, like Australian immigration, is more skills-based than the USA. You have a needed skill, you get in. Last time I read about it, it seemed like we should be doing the same in the USA.

Assuming your country had a dire need for free-lance writers for yuppie magazines, and she were admitted, could she not get health coverage on short notice?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/marrying-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79827 Anonymous Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/marrying-a-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79827 Canada's health care isn't free. WE ALL have to pay for it., btu she wouldn't know anything about that b/c she's never paid taxes to our gov't but yet wants to reap the benefits of our system. this lady makes me sick. she's a parasite to our system, increasing our taxes by the year. Canada’s health care isn’t free. WE ALL have to pay for it., btu she wouldn’t know anything about that b/c she’s never paid taxes to our gov’t but yet wants to reap the benefits of our system. this lady makes me sick. she’s a parasite to our system, increasing our taxes by the year.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/marrying-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79822 Anonymous Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/09/marrying-a-canadian-for-health-care.html#comment-79822 There are sham marriages for all sorts of economic reasons. Citizenship. Politicians with homosexual predilections who need political cover. Why not a sham marriage for health insurance?<br/><br/>You don't need to go to Canada for that, though. It appears she writes from the Seattle area. There are Boeing workers with traditional insurance. There are military bases all over the area. Ft. Lewis, McCord, Bremerton, Everett, Whidbey, Bangor. Marry a career serviceman and get dependent coverage. Blue-collar union insurance at the Port of Seattle and Tacoma.<br/><br/>One could go on.<br/><br/>But then again, this is not really about access to healthcare, is it? There are sham marriages for all sorts of economic reasons. Citizenship. Politicians with homosexual predilections who need political cover. Why not a sham marriage for health insurance?

You don’t need to go to Canada for that, though. It appears she writes from the Seattle area. There are Boeing workers with traditional insurance. There are military bases all over the area. Ft. Lewis, McCord, Bremerton, Everett, Whidbey, Bangor. Marry a career serviceman and get dependent coverage. Blue-collar union insurance at the Port of Seattle and Tacoma.

One could go on.

But then again, this is not really about access to healthcare, is it?

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