Topic: Liberal Fascism
Every medical tragedy that occurs in the United States is seized upon by proponents of universal healthcare to prove that the nation's healthcare system is both cruel and inefficient—unlike those of enlightened countries such as Canada, for instance.
So I was somewhat startled to learn, while reading this story about the death of actress Natasha Richardson, that the province of Quebec has no medical helicopter airlift system. This, according to Montreal's top head trauma doctor, may have played a role in Richardson's death.
Life-saving medical airlift is commonly available in the United States (and in some parts of Canada), so why isn't it available in a a major city like Montreal? The story doesn't say, but let me hazard a guess. The cheese-paring bureaucrats who run the Canadian healthcare system think it's just too darn expensive. And if we let our government get control of the US healthcare system, a lot of the services that people in this country take for granted will begin to wither away.
