MIAMI (SBP) \u2013 After using his own personal fortune to purchase efficient, expensive and expedient health care in the United States, Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams held a post-op press conference to extoll the virtues of Canadian \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d style medicare.\u00a0 Premier Williams, an independently wealthy man, spoke from the\u00a0 world class Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami where his heart surgery was an unmitigated success.
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\n\u201cI just wanted to remind the Canadian people of one of the commandments of socialized medicine,\u201d said Premier Williams as he was served a dish of peking duck where each mouthful was acute positive pleasure, \u201cTwo tier bad; one tier good!\u201d
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\nPremier Williams exercised a non-traditional right to choose his method of medical care shortly after discovering that his heart murmur had worsened.\u00a0
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\n\u201cI would be only too happy to allow Canadians choice in terms of health care as long as it’s within the borders of Canada,\u201d Williams said as he lay in the American hospital, \u201cBecause, unlike me, Canadians might make the wrong decisions.\u00a0 And, then, where would they be?\u201d
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\n\u201cThe bottom line here is, it’s my heart, my choice, my health.\u201d
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\nContinued Premier Williams: \u201cOnce I saw the wait lists in Canada, I thought about the first and foremost commandment in all of socialized medicine; all Canadians are equal; but some Canadians are more equal than others.\u201d
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\nAnimal Farm Health Care has a long and proud history in Canada.\u00a0 Inspired by Old Major Douglas, the system first started as a way of overthrowing a corrupt and repressive system that would bankrupt families that needed medical help.\u00a0 A set of commandments were developed such as \u201cwhatever goes upon American style is the enemy\u201d, \u201cno Canadian shall have two tier\u201d, and \u201call Canadians are equal\u201d.\u00a0 In recent times, the commandments have been modified to the benefit of all.
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\n\u201cI did see the basic commandments as a good start,\u201d said Williams, who is expected to have a quick and full recovery, \u201cbut some changes had to be made to accommodate the More Equals like myself, Jack Layton, and Adrienne Clarkson.\u201d
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\nNDP leader and Medicare advocate Jack Layton has been reported to have had hernia surgery at a private clinic in the 1990s while former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson was moved to the front of a pacemaker wait list in 2005.\u00a0 Because of the needs of More Equal Canadians, the commandments had been changed to say \u201cwhatever goes upon American style is the enemy…unless it can heal you faster\u201d and \u201cno Canadian shall have two tier…unless you can afford it in a foreign country\u201d.
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\nLess equal Canadians were sympathetic to Williams case.
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\n\u201cIt is so uplifting to hear of the success stories of Canadian medicare like Premier Williams,\u201d said Marcy Donnell, who recently lost her father to esophageal cancer, \u201cMy dad was diagnosed at stage one cancer and we had to wait a mere five weeks for surgery while a doctor was on vacation.\u00a0 Medicare made sure that my dad’s situation would go from horribly fixable to wonderfully hopeless.
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\n\u201cThank God we have a Canadian medical system that allows choice for those of independent means to get proper help in the United States or Germany,\u201d continued Donnell as she held the urn containing her father’s ashes, \u201cIt really warms my heart to know that some Canadians like Danny Williams are, indeed getting the best quality health care in the entire world.\u00a0
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\n\u201cAll Canadians should be proud of our Canadian leaders who stand up for Canadian health care; that those Canadian leaders can seek out and get proper treatment in the most Canadian of cities; Miami, Florida.\u201d
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\nPremier Williams concluded his press conference by saying, \u201cBack in the days before Medicare, the Canadian people had been slaves like the Americans.\u00a0 But, now Canadian heath care is free and this has made all the difference.\u201d
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\nThere was no question now, as to what happened to Canadian health care.\u00a0 The Canadians outside the press conference then looked from Slave to Free, and from Free to Slave, and from Slave to Free again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. <\/p>\n
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