McBush wants to do for health care what was done to finance

Where is McBush's head?  My opinion is, if he bends over a little more, he will disappear.

For the answer to our heath care mess, all we have to do is look north.

I have communicated with many Canadians on the health groups I am part of. Of those who have had experience with both the US and Canadian systems, all say that they would take the Canadian system.  

 There are some delays for ELECTIVE procedures, but all essential health care is taken care of in an expedient manner.

The first step would be to tightly regulate the drug industry. (Excuse the wording) but the drug industry is raping the American patient.

 Next, the insurance industry is replaced by a single payer system.  Privet insurance would only be allowed for procedures that are covered at a low high deductible, or not covered.

The insurance both the government single payer and privet insurance, would not be allowed to come between the doctor and the patient.  The doctors would basically be government employees.  Any bonus would be based on results for the patient, not on forced savings.

by kanawah (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 77 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 11:45:06 AM
 

about the Canadian health care system........

I dunno about your friends, but my old Canadian war vet friend with the inablility to pee due to prostate problems had a catheter inserted and then they let him rot in hell with infections recurring and pain and horros and fear.....AWAITING surgery. He is now in his fifth month with a catheter and has done about three rounds of antibiotics to fend off these horrendous infections in his kidneys, bladder, etc.....

Not elective surgery and only one specialist in his area and he hates the man and the man hates him and has put off his treatments. Many emergency room visits in agony.  Long bad story.

Not perfect solution either, but better than what we have now with little kids dying from tooth infections and women being left on emergency room floors to die.

by abuelitaromo (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 36 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 1:13:46 PM
 

Canadian Health Care

Although the funding for Canadian Health Care is federal it is managed provincially and therefore there are different levels of service depending in which province you live. BC although having its own problems is at the top of health care in Canada. Daily access to doctors is excellent as are hospital and clinic access. Waiting times can be extended for operations that are elective or which are not related to serious conditions. Usually, serious situations are given precedence and if a reeasonable time frame cannot be managed the government will pay to have the operation performed outside the country. The Canadian system is very well used and is constantly operating at the highest levels. Other countries may have slack in their systems because ordinary people can't afford to use them but all Canadians have good access to their system.

by Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1285 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 6:26:57 PM
 

As to your title

You have to ask? Merely opening the subject up to debate gives McCain more credit than is his due.

by Ivan Hentschel (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 264 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 12:04:12 PM
 

Ivan, thanks for reading and for taking the time to comment.

I enjoyed the giggle.

by abuelitaromo (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 36 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 4:40:06 PM
 

Later I thought

"How stupid is John McCain?"... this is an opening line for a series of vaudeville jokes:

"John McCain is so stupid, that{ Insert your own line, here}"

Something like, "Take my wife...please!"

by Ivan Hentschel (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 264 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 9:52:58 PM
 

McCain is incredibly stupid & has been for a long, long time

John McCain: "Sittin' on the bottom of the bay / 'Cause I skipped the class on how to blow the canopy away"

I agree completely with this post.  For reasons that were just as obvious then as they are today, John McCain was known as "John Wayne McCain" while attending the U.S. Naval Academy. His favorite sobriquet of "maverick" is, and always has been, a cover for his inability to follow the rules and his penchant for knee-jerk decisions, both of which are amply evident in his largely unvetted choice of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. McCain's proclivity to shoot from the hip is a life-long trait, stemming from a pronounced tendency toward rebellion against his naval officer father and a distaste for following prescribed courses of studies when in school.

As a student, McCain was a complete joke.  He finished at Annapolis number 894 out of 899.  That is not a typo.  On a percentage basis, that is 0.556%, which means he didn't even make it into the 1 percentile range. 

The following excerpts from a CNN program called "McCain Revealed" shows how these characteristics almost got McCain killed during a training flight while in naval air school in Texas:

JOHN KING: His next proving ground was one chosen for him--Annapolis. Duty eclipsed desire. The military legacy of his father and grandfather trumped McCain's huge love of literature and his dream of a liberal arts education at Princeton or the University of Virginia.

MCCAIN: I think I knew I was going to go to the Naval Academy, and I'm sure that part of my excuse for being rebellious was that I wanted to go to one of those schools. By the way, it's by no means certain that I could have gotten in.

CHUCK LARSON: He accepted it, although he rebelled occasionally.

KING: Chuck Larson met fellow midshipman John McCain in 1955. Everyone knew both McCain's family lineage and his bad boy reputation. Larson and McCain hit it off. The "Bad Bunch" was formed.

LARSON: A group that liked to have fun, and, of course, we were always looking for dates. Women were very attracted to John.

FRANK AMBOA: Socially, it was very wise to hang out with John because you'd get invited to a lot of parties.

KING: Frank Amboa was John McCain's roommate at Annapolis. Amboa remembers his first encounter with his roommate's father, a highly decorated naval captain, the fall of 1955.

AMBOA: John had gotten up and gone over to the sink and got a glass of water and threw it on us, so that deteriorated into melee and water fight, and in the midst of this there came two knocks on the door. So we come to attention and I see John say, "Dad!"

MCCAIN: That was my dad who walked into the room. It was a ... it was a shocking moment for him.

AMBOA: And then I hear this gruff voice behind me, "This is a gross room. Carry on, gentlemen."

MCCAIN: My father was amazingly tolerant of some of my wild antics while at the Naval Academy.

AMBOA: And the captain said, "Goddammit, Johnny. No wonder you're flunking!"

KING: It was 1958. John McCain graduated Annapolis in the bottom five of his class [894 out of 899, in the .556 percentile], yet at the top of his game.

MCCAIN: I was going to be a naval aviator, and that's what I always wanted to do, and I wanted to fly airplanes by myself off of aircraft carriers. You know, I thought that was the height of glamor and excitement.

KING: Aviator training was rigorous, yet McCain loved happy hour and night life. His old Annapolis pal, now flight school roommate, Chuck Larson says McCain still preferred literature to required reading.

LARSON: John spent a lot of time reading, and he read Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

KING: At the expense of maybe ...

MCCAIN: Yes.

KING: ... learning how to eject?

MCCAIN: Yes, at the expense of maybe learning my flight procedures, which I probably should have given a higher priority to.

KING: Both men were on a training mission in 1958 when McCain nearly paid the ultimate price ... for doing things his way.

LARSON: He took off one plane ahead of me, and he had an engine failure and crashed into the [Corpus Christi] bay, and he sunk to the bottom. He was sitting on the bottom of the aircraft, and he said, "You know, I remember there's some kind of a switch here somewhere that blows the canopy off the airplane, but I didn't read that book, and I don't know where the switch is, so I guess I'm dead."

KING: McCain managed to wrench the canopy open and barely survived.

KING: A near death experience. How do you think that changed him, if at all?

LARSON: I don't think it changed him at all. John went back to the room, went to bed for about two hours, got up and said, "Let's go over to the club."

The record shows that McCain lost five planes in all, only two of which were lost in wartime due to circumstances beyond his control, to wit: one was lost when a rocket accidentally slammed into his plane on the deck of the U.S.S. Forestall Aircraft Carrier and another was shot down by the enemy in North Vietnam while he was piloting it. As for the other three, we have already noted the crash in Corpus Christi Bay while attempting to land after an alleged engine failure. While stationed in the Mediterranean, McCain hit power lines and crashed while flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula. Finally, while flying to an Army-Navy football game in a navy training aircraft, he radioed ahead that he had experienced a "flameout," and ejected from the plane before it crashed.

The crash last described was termed "unavoidable" by the Navy (possibly on account of extreme indulgence of his highly erratic behavior due to the fact that his father and grandfather concluded their naval careers as four-star admirals); but was it really unavoidable? According to Wikipedia, a "flameout" simply refers to "the failure of a jet engine caused by the extinction of the flame in the combustion chamber. It can be caused by a number of factors, including fuel exhaustion...." Obviously, "fuel exhaustion" is a euphemism for running out of fuel.

You will recall what McCain said about doing extraneous things "at the expense of maybe learning my flight procedures, which I probably should have given a higher priority to." Could it be that McCain simply hopped in a jet without making sure it had enough fuel to reach his destination?

When McCain was shot down in North Vietnam, I suspect that he also failed to read the manual on how to keep his arms and legs in position to eject safely from the cockpit.  Consequently, he suffered two broken arms and a broken leg during the ejection.

As previously noted, McCain was an abysmally poor student, who only managed to finish in the bottom 1% of his class.  This figure is so startlingly low that it creates the opportunity for McCain to claim on his resume that he finished in the top 99% of his class.  A casual reader might misinterpret that as being at the top of his class.  Obviously, he actually did not finish in even the top 99%, but perhaps we should give him credit anyway.  After all, they say that close is good enough in horseshoes and hand grenades.  Maybe we should add grades to that list for military royalty like McCain.  What's another little lie like this, anyway, in comparison to all the whoppers he has told?)

It might be fun to start a web site devoted to McCain stupid jokes.  It could be titled, "It's the McCain, Stupid!"  Here are a couple of examples:

McCain was obviously the kind of student who was only able to answer questions correctly by accident:

Instructor:  Mr. McCain, name two pronouns.

McCain:  Who, me?

Instructor:  Very good, Mr. McCain!

Here's another one:

In his philosophy class at the naval academy, McCain discovered that the final contained a single question: "What is courage?"

McCain wrote: "This", signed it, and turned it in. 

I'll bet that, given the chance, Americans would come up with some doozies.

To sum up, McCain is simply incompetent.  He was a party animal, womanizer and numbskull, who graduated at the bottom of his class at Annapolis.  These are the types of things that scare me so badly about the possibility of his becoming President. He has flown by the seat of his pants all his life, and continues to do so.

If McCain is elected President, I hope he does not wind up at the bottom of the bay (so to speak) with the whole country flying with him as his co-pilot.  All it will take for that to materialize will be for him to make a fatal miscalculation after failing to give sufficiently careful deliberation to a critical decision. In that case, "Whoops, I guess we're dead," will be a very sad commentary, indeed, on this country's inability over the last decade to select Presidents who think deeply before they react.

by Steuart Knox (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 3:09:43 PM
 

Gracias, Mr. Knox, I love long and informative replies.

Yours adds nicely to the subject. Thanks again for reading.

by abuelitaromo (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 36 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 4:41:40 PM
 

How Stupid is John McCain

Comment from Ratings:   Obama keeps saying they think you are stupid. In reality they know the average voter IS stupid. That's why McCain can say so many stupid things and still be high in the poles. Don't forget that it is the voters who chose him as their candidate.

by Thomas Henry (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 3 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 4:02:27 PM
 

Mr. Thomas Henry, I appreciate your reading my article

and commenting on it.

I pray that the voters gain some knowledge quickly, factual things, before the elections.

by abuelitaromo (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 36 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 4:43:56 PM
 

Sundown Syndrome Setting In

Comment from Ratings:   After listening to McCain stumble through a radio interview where the topic was the leader of Spain, I am convinced McCain doesn't have a clue. He didn't recognize the Spanish leader's name, even after the interviewer reminded him twice that she was talking about Spain. She tried to help him out, to no avail. He proceeded to talk macho about Latin America. McCain and Palin make a good team. He had the same sound in his voice that she had when she was asked about the Bush Doctrine. No clue.

by Nathan Hale (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments) on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 8:42:40 PM
 

Concise and insightful!

Comment from Ratings:   A short but on-point piece!

by Edward-Yemil Rosario (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 6:38:29 AM