King of Nation With Glorious Universal Health Coverage Comes to US for Medical Treatment
**Written by Doug Powers
The day after the Obamacare law passed, Saudi King Abdullah reportedly called President Obama to congratulate him. The bill, it seems, was one more step toward the US embracing a superior universal health care system like that which can be found in Saudia Arabia, where treatments for medical problems such as, oh, say, blood clots, are fully covered.
Now, the king of the country with that health care system that gives the US something to strive for won’t be treated in that system, but will instead come to the US for treatment. He’s lucky the law that will make US health care system more closely resemble the Saudi system — the one that isn’t good enough for Saudi royalty — hasn’t kicked in yet:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia’s aged ruler will fly to the United States for medical tests over a blood clot, according to a Saudi official, in a development that would renew questions about succession in the oil-rich kingdom.
The 86-year-old King Abdullah is set to leave on Monday, three days after he was admitted to the hospital suffering from back pain due to a blood clot, the official said late Saturday. The official didn’t say which hospital would receive the king.
To paraphrase John McCain’s question, when Obamacare is fully implemented in America, where will rich Saudis go for health care?
Not to worry, Saudi royalty — the Obama administration will be happy to grant you a waiver.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Happens in Canada all the time. Google ‘Belinda Stronach cancer california’ and here is the direct link:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/03/26/stronach-breast-cancer.html
Also google ‘Danny Williams healthcare florida’
Here is the direct link:
http://www.darkdaily.com/newfoundland-premier-danny-williams-heart-surgery-in-the-u-s-triggers-debate-on-healthcare-in-canada-224
Both these politicians – one present and one past, tout the quality of public health care in Canada yet when they are sick, they go to the U.S.
Absolute Friggin Criminals!!!!!!!
What bothers me is that when I travel to the U.S. for care, it ends up being 40% to 50% more expensive than just the medical care on its own because I have to travel across the boarder, stay in hotels and eat at restaurants. When you are staying away from home in another country for a week, it adds up. If private healthcare were allowed in Canada, I could afford twice the care because I would be sleeping in my own bed, eating food from my fridge and driving to the doctor within the community where I live.
I recently had an idiot dem friend tell me that Canada health care is better.
Like most dems he is stuck on stupid.
Gee, isn’t an 86 year too old to deserve bhocare? If he wants American healthcare then he can fly the doctors to Saudi rather than coming here.
There has never been a problem with the US healthcare system. The “problem” is in the payment of such and how we’re insured.
I can’t understand wrecking the current healthcare system to assure that some 45 million people are insured for health care. And riddle me this Batman-how many of that number are illegals?
But I’m convinced Odumbocare is not about either insurance or the actual care people receive. It’s about socialism and destroying our economy.
In Montana, Washington state and the Dakotas there is a thriving industry by ophthalmologist doing cataract and other eye surgery on Canadians-cash. Cataract and other eye surgery is available in Canada it is just they have to wait too long and there are age restrictions.
They need to buy that if they are gone for one day. With my greedy, profit based private insurance I am covered for up to five weeks out of country after notifying them of our trip. Somalia, Yemen and the Santa Monica Freeway are excluded but otherwise we are well covered.
But I can see why King FuzzyWuzzy prefers Infidel Dogs for his medical treatment. His interior household security detail is made up of Infidel Dogs, retired Koran Army NCOs. That enabler and funder of whabbism still has mohammedan enemies. Allah Akbar King FuzzyWuzzy get well soon so you can get your sorry heathen arse out of my country.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
I guess this rop type royal will have to have only male nurses work on him, can’t have any female touching someone not related can we?
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In my hometown of Guelph, Ontario, Canadda just west of Metropolitan Toronto, the wait time to see a gastroenterologist (internal medicine) is between 12 months and 20 months. That’s just the first appointment though. That’s not the wait to undergo diagnostic testing or surgery. The total time can easily exceed 2 years.
The problem with this, besides the obvious, is that you can develop pre-cancerous lesions in your esophogeous after 6 months of certain internal complications, so to wait from 12 to 20 months before you even see someone who can help you is absurd.
Forgot to add, the fee that the specialist receives for the consultation in Canada is $100. So, people are put on waiting lists, as I said, for 12 to 20 months in a public system so that they save $100 – Are you frickin’ kidding me?
Of course the same people who claim that they can’t even afford to pay $100 for an initial consultation with a specialist routinely take their dog or cat to the vet and pay hunndreds for their pets health care – go figure?
Americans are the stupidest people on Earth.
We can already see what socialism and the nationalization of medical care has done to the rest of the world, and yet in 2008 we voted it in in a landslide (Congress).
When the Brits idiotically nationalized their medical care, at least they didn’t already have the terrible example Britain and the rest of the ‘developed’ world with nationalized medical care has become to warn them off.
We did. We have no excuse. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And you can’t fix stupid.
So next we are going to follow Europe down the obviously badly failing attempt to integrate Islam into the West.
Tell me again why there is any doubt humans are nothing but talking apes???
Neither of those issues (nationalizing medical care and allowing mass immigration of Muslims) would be issues at all, if the people weren’t as dumb as monkeys.
Royal families from all over the world have been paying for extraordinary care at United States hospitals for decades and it all boils down to the best medicine they can afford. Why not, of course, go to the best when you have the billions to afford it. The King of Jordan went to the Mayo Clinic for treatment for prostate cancer because he could afford it and wanted the best.
Johns Hopkins Hospital has been arranging for special care for royals of the UAE since 1988. These prearranged visits for care of entourages of royals (sometimes 70) evolved into extraordinary preparations which may take months….. A ‘special wing’ of the hospital is set aside, pre-scheduled appointments with specialty physicians at JHU (which could be argued are some of the best in the world). Special teams work to upgrade the ‘private suites’ with new TV’s (special satellite channels) laptops, artwork, and oriental carpets. Care is given to train the kitchen for special foods and medical teams advised on cultural interaction with royals.
In his gratitude, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayet Al Nahyan, President of the UAE donated “an undisclosed significant ‘transformational’ and magnificent’ to build a new 12-story tower at the hospital in Baltimore for cardiovascular and critical care, paid for in significant part by the gift. The tower is estimated to cost $1.5 billion the an undisclosed amount is described by JHU officials as “transformationl” and “Magnificent.”
No can argue that such a donation is a good thing for Hopkins….. But the question arises ‘who is this wing for?” How will the extraordinary medicine of major medical institutions like Hopkins, Harvard, and the Mayo Clinic be made available to average Americans?
I don’t think it is a stretch to imagine that ‘special’ people like Obama & family, Congressmen, ‘leaders’ in DC,. The wealthy and the connected will receive such care.
Meanwhile American citizens are being told we must add 30+ million people to the health care system, cut the budget for Medicare for seniors, ‘lower their expectations’, rely on socialized medicine created by the Democrats and Obama, and stop complaining. We should consider ourselves lucky to get that.
Obama’s health care system will prevent you from seeing ‘the best’ of physicians in “the best’ of hospitals….unless you have some offshore accounts to pay for it.
The wealthy leaders of the world or the ‘chosen’ here don’t have to worry.
Imagine how MANY social woes, from med care availbility/affordability to employment and crime could be resolved if we just DEPORTED Illegals!!! Think!!
One thing I’d like to see fixed up in our med system is the standardization of baseline quality. I shouldn’t have to hear radio/TV commercials of people claiming that their new (for example) cancer center and doctors saved them when their previous center said no can do or the burly doctor there said you’re gonna die dude. This is intolerable. Whether you get your brakes fixed by a grimey gas station or Goodyear, that work BETTER be at least on par in safety and effectiveness or shut the failing guy down. The same base standards should be applied in med care, which would additionally take the load off “speciality” med centers located in only relatively few locations.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Let the death panel begin.
Finally!!! We find one good thing about OBAMACARE!!! Once it becomes “LAW” we will be able to keep all those PESKY FOREIGN NATIONALS from heading to the good ol’ USA for HEALTH CARE… Hell, now they can save all that money, and stay at home and get the kind of health care they are used to… No sense spending all that money for something that will be just as inferior as you can get in SAUDI ARABIA…
Actually, regular people can get treated at these magnificent institutions.
My question – how many employees at these extraordinary places voted for Obama? How many would have voted for him if someone other than McClain were running? Just thinking out loud…
I didn’t realize that we had the best blood clot specialists in the world. What do the Saudi doctors specialize in? Saddle sores?
Pasadena Phil: I am guessing that Saudi doctors would specialize in areas such as bone fractures (from beatings imposed by the religious police), skin trauma (from acid attacks on woman who go uncovered in public, sexual mutilation care (when a woman suffers complicatons during puberty) and the like.
pueblo1032: Regarding your comment about ‘pesky foreign nationals’, I hope most Americans don’t view Canadians in that manner.
For some reason, I always have a difficult time crossing the Sarnia, Detroit or Niagara Falls border points. Maybe because I am in my thirties, male and travel alone – I guess I fit a profile of the type of common threat to national security or public safety in regards to criminal activity.
Anyways, it usually takes up to ten minutes for me to be given the okay to drive through the border check point, and I always, always have my car searched and 20 to 30 questions asked of me, most of them quite repetitive (border agents try to see if they can catch me in a contradiction of statements). The agents seem to be suprised that I am not going over to the U.S. to shop for clothes or attend a sporting event, but am traveling to see medical professionals in your country and paying out of pocket when my country’s healthcare is ‘free’.
I actually had one agent ask me why I was travelling to the U.S. if health care in Canada was ‘free’? I replied ‘If it is free, then why are there shortages? Why can’t the government meet the demand for healthcare if it costs nothing to produce the supply the market demands?
Re pic of Obowmao bowing to the king.
Why didn’t he check his clots while he was down there?
Pic title, how about “Requiem for a gleet”?
I think he meant Californians. We use to spray for them but the EPA stopped it.
But you are welcome here as a patient, at least by me. Hell my cardiologist is a Canadian. Except for the fact he talks like Mark Steyn he is a real nice guy. He left Canada when his hospital put age restrictions for new heart patient procedures and medications. “Let them die” did not fit his ethical standards and we have better golf courses in Phoenix.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
If I ran that hospital I would specifically hire a homosexual, Jewish, female doctor and nurse to care for him.
I’m sure some of us have an extra bedroom we could put you up in.
123UpNorth:
Try grocery or convenience stores to help with food, especially if you can get a room with a fridge and a microwave. A lot of them have small boxes of cereal sold in big packets, for example, and cookie type snacks in smaller packets. I think some hotels that don’t have fridges and microwaves in the rooms still have them available for guests communally; ask. I have also seen hotels rent out small fridges; you can calculate if keeping cold food in your room would save enough money to be worth it.
I think diners sometimes run a little cheaper than other restaurants, depending on location.
They are infuriated by your politeness.
tre said: “If I ran that hospital I would specifically hire a homosexual, Jewish, female doctor and nurse to care for him.”
I am betting the quiet removal of anyone Jewish who might otherwise be taking care of him has been paid for…… and done under the heading of for “cultural reasons”.
Nestinghawk: Thanks for the suggestions.
The major additional cost I incurr when in the States for healthcare is hotel expenses.
I love almost everything about America, however, in regards to hotels, I find U.S. rooms to be extremely expensive and lacking in quality. It usually costs me over $100 per night to stay in what I perceive to be a 2-star level hotel property.
On my last trip to Chicago, I finally accepted the inevitable and booked a room at the Hyatt. It was $140 American, but it was the only hotel offering the quality level that pleased me. Candlewood Suites is a good brand as well.
The Canadian dollar is very high right now, so the exchange didn’t hurt me at all, but usually, the US/Canadian exchange rate costs me about 25% as historically, my dollar trades at 80 cents U.S.
No worries. Even after Obamacare kicks in there will still be a very expensive and private healthcare system available for the
pigs in the farmhouseruling elite who have exempted themselves from the Obamacare rules everyone else has to follow. I’m sure they’ll be glad to share their special healthcare benefits with other wealthy rulers from around the world — just not with the people who are paying for it.I want to see a college student who is a liberal Obama supporter or any skin colour give up his/her health care for the year for the Saudi prince.
I’m sure it’s just for overflow from Walter Reed. Hey, our veterans certainly get better treatment than foreigners, right?
ArizonaNeandrethal, I understand your frustration at CA politics, but please stop taking it out on the rest of us. There are alot of us conservatives out here who are just as frustrated that we elect people like Boxer, as say, people who continue to elect McCain.
Give us a break. Beleive me,if we could, we would send all the libs to an island somehwere and give CA a fresh start.
Oh hell no we don’t. Here in Arizona we have lots of Canadian doctors and Nurses and we get lots of Canadian Vets who come here under previous treaties for covered services. We welcome them and thank them all for their contribution to our society.
Why would anyone come here to get medical care? Our system weas so bad it needed to be totally overhauled, right?
Right? ?
That’s exactly why we had to have reform, to cover the 30 million illegal aliens draining our system.
death panels for the illegals. Problem solved.
Isn’t it amazing that all the world’s “special” people come here to get educated, treated for diseases, and learn how to establish a stock market, and our gubmint destroys each of those entities every single day. Of course our gubmint’s elites don’t have to feel the pain of their rules and laws, so why not? Big Sis and King Abdullah aren’t going to go through a grope search, so let’s implement it and let the 80 iq TSA workers squeeze colostomy bags and take out breast prosthesis’ on the peons. A few years ago Big sis and the dems were up in arms over the gubmint reading emails eminating out of public libraries and going to the middle east, but these same (_*_)s are fine with groping every American citizen trying to go see his family on Thanksgiving or Christmas. TRY GUARDING OUR BORDERS INSTEAD OF SUBJECTING US TO STRIP SEARCHES!