Holiday World
Yesterday, I journeyed with my family, to a favorite theme park, Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. In fact, it's billed as being America's first theme park, created in the late 1940's. Still family owned, the park's 70 year-old owner was greeting visitors at the gate, when we arrived at 9:30. She was there when we departed at 6:00 pm.
While at the park, I met a woman who was visiting from Canada. Of course, the Republican Reporter, asked her about Canadian Health Care System. While she resides in Windsor Canada, she is a nurse working at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. JACKPOT!!!
She laughed as she told me about Windsor Canada and their health care system. This community of 200,000 citizens is so lacking in health care resources, that heart attack victims can't be treated in their own city. For Central Illinois readers, image if Terre Haute, Champaign, Springfield and Peoria (populations of 1/2 that of Windsor) no longer treated heart attack victims. Of course many of these Midwest communities are centers of excellence for heart related illnesses. But such is not the case for Windsor Canada.
For the 200,000 citizens of Windsor, they have two options. The first is to travel 120 miles to London Canada to access the limited health resources available there, or travel across the US/Canadian border to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Little publicized is the fact that the Canadian government realizes that the Windsor health care is so lacking, that they now pay for Canadians to travel to Detroit, in the case of a heart attack! (You sure don't hear those stories when the media extols the Great Canadian Health Care System.)
Canadian Health Care relies heavily on the US for the HUGE gaps in service that socialized medicine creates. The only question is, "Who will be the safety net for America, when we adopt the Canadian model?"
While at the park, I met a woman who was visiting from Canada. Of course, the Republican Reporter, asked her about Canadian Health Care System. While she resides in Windsor Canada, she is a nurse working at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. JACKPOT!!!
She laughed as she told me about Windsor Canada and their health care system. This community of 200,000 citizens is so lacking in health care resources, that heart attack victims can't be treated in their own city. For Central Illinois readers, image if Terre Haute, Champaign, Springfield and Peoria (populations of 1/2 that of Windsor) no longer treated heart attack victims. Of course many of these Midwest communities are centers of excellence for heart related illnesses. But such is not the case for Windsor Canada.
For the 200,000 citizens of Windsor, they have two options. The first is to travel 120 miles to London Canada to access the limited health resources available there, or travel across the US/Canadian border to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Little publicized is the fact that the Canadian government realizes that the Windsor health care is so lacking, that they now pay for Canadians to travel to Detroit, in the case of a heart attack! (You sure don't hear those stories when the media extols the Great Canadian Health Care System.)
Canadian Health Care relies heavily on the US for the HUGE gaps in service that socialized medicine creates. The only question is, "Who will be the safety net for America, when we adopt the Canadian model?"
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