{"id":267327,"date":"2010-02-02T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/welcome-get-well-soon-38951\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:12:09","slug":"welcome-and-get-well-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267327","title":{"rendered":"Welcome and Get Well Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.02.10 11:00 AM posted by Conn Carroll<\/p>\n<p>The United States health care system is &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/HealthCare\/bg2128.cfm&quot;&gt;not nearly as free market and consumer driven as it should be. And while government &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/02\/lessons-from-the-recent-past-rumors-of-obamacare%e2%80%99s-death-are-premature\/&quot;&gt;continues to slowly takeover our health care system, and Obamacare would fast-forward that development, the U.S. system is still more free than the Canadian &#8220;single-payer&#8221; system. And how is government run health care working for Canada? This past summer the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority considered cutting more than 6,000 surgeries to make up for a $200 million budget shortfall. British Columbia Medical Association president Dr. Brian Brodie called the proposed surgical cuts &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/story_print.html?id=1878506&amp;sponsor=&quot;&gt;\u0093a nightmare.\u0094 Access problems are not new to Canadian&#8217;s single payer system. Since 2003, &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.timelymedical.ca\/&quot;&gt;Timely Medical Alternatives Inc. has helped Canadians \u0093leave the queue\u0094 and get timely health care in the United States. Now &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=2510700&quot;&gt;The Globe and Mail reports:&lt;spanid=&quot;more-25385&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heart and soul of Newfoundland politics is in for repair \u0096 and it&#8217;s not in his home province or even in Canada, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is scheduled for heart surgery in the United States, a move that throws into question his province&#8217;s and his nation&#8217;s health-care system.<\/p>\n<p>A source confirmed to The Globe and Mail late Monday that Mr. Williams has left St. John&#8217;s for an undisclosed destination in the U.S. to have heart surgery later in the week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We welcome Premier Williams to the United States and sincerely hope he receives the best care that money can buy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/02\/welcome-and-get-well-soon\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/02\/&#8230;get-well-soon\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.02.10 11:00 AM posted by Conn Carroll The United States health care system is &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/HealthCare\/bg2128.cfm&quot;&gt;not nearly as free market and consumer driven as it should be. And while government &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/02\/lessons-from-the-recent-past-rumors-of-obamacare%e2%80%99s-death-are-premature\/&quot;&gt;continues to slowly takeover our health care system, and Obamacare would fast-forward that development, the U.S. system is still more free than the Canadian &#8220;single-payer&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}