The surgery he needed to have done is typically done in an open-heart method (where they have to crack your chest open to get to the heart), but he wanted a riskier, less popular method, which few doctors perform. He was concerned about scar tissue, and chose to have a laprascopic method, instead. While it might not be the best method for what he wanted done, it would indeed leave the least amount of damage in order to access the surgically sensitive area.

Canada’s Newfoundland Premier came to the U.S. to have mitral valve surgery on his heart. But the procedure he wanted is also available in Canada, where some of the best mitral valve heart surgeons exist. He defended his decision by saying that he preferred to come to the U.S. to have it done.

So, why the U.S.?? It turns out that he had access to a very nice condo not far from the doctor’s office, and would’ve been far happier recuperating in a sunny location like South Florida, instead of a cold, wintery location like Quebec or New Foundland.

Poor baby. I hope the right-wingers who tout this guy include this interesting bit of detail in their mantra of “we’ve got the best health care in the world”. Yes, we do…but only if you’re a billionaire or foreign dignitary.

Read the full news story here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/its-my-health-its-my-choice-danny-williams-says/article1477872/

http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/Canada/ContentPosting?newsitemid=CTVNews%2F20100224%2Fwilliams_cardiologists_100224&feedname=CTV-NATIONAL_V3&show=False&number=0&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False

It”s like those who get it don”t even know that THAT is what big, baaaad and scary government healthcare is.

If you”re so against government-run healthcare, you should be absolutely willing to give up your own dependency on it, and let someone else – who NEEDS it – use it instead of you.

Get a tatoo on your arm that says “no government healthcare for me” – that way the nurses will pass you on to an expensive, unaffordable idiot-for-hire who will deny you all the care you need.  Even if your life depends on it.

Every time this fact is brought up – the fact that Medicare IS government-run-healthcare – at a town hall meeting, the sane are booed and shouted down by the insane.

Seriously.  Simply refusing to allow facts get in the way of their vitriolic demeanor.

They don”t even know what the heck they are screaming about.

They want to be taken seriously while screaming and insisting that President Obama was not born in the U.S. All one can say is, Hawaii isn”t/wasn”t a state?

I guess anyone else who was born there is suffering from the same problem, too! What on earth are we to do? Oh, wait, they say now that he was born in Kenya… back when Kenya didn”t exist as a country. It”s so sad. And, still, Obama – and the blue dogs – insist on working with the Republicans to get things done.

The Republican party… the same people who think the planet – or rather, the universe – was made in SEVEN DAYS. And that the planet is only 3,000 years old.

Republicans think that global warming, evolution, dinosaur bones are part of some giant, beyond belief hoax – on par Big Foot or Loch Ness Monster. They refuse to think on their own, speak in a reasoned manner, or even listen to opinions or facts that differ from their own beliefs. They are – in fact – CRAZY.