The Long National Nightmare is Over

Getting back to the politics here, with a little help from information gathered up in Toronto, I will continue the celebration in the GOP's stunning victory in Massachusetts.


The fact that the leftists no longer have an unbreakable stranglehold on the country is cause in itself for celebrating. An awful lot of political capital has been spent to further the liberal and socialist agenda, and the backlash has begun.


However, I would like to go back to the health care disaster that these people have been trying to foist on us, telling us how good it is in Canada, England and Israel, to name a few countries. Well, I got to talking to a member of the local volunteer ambulance service in Canada. He told me that there is a certain beauty to having one system, because all records are available electronically to all hospitals, including the pre-hospital reports which are done electronically, since it is all one system.


Then I asked him if the organization has its own ambulances, or are they just a first responder outfit. What he told me made my blood run cold.


He told me that it doesn't pay to have an ambulance, because the way it works up north is if there isn't an available bed for your patient in the hospital, you have to wait, with your patient on your stretcher, until there is one. This could be in excess of FIFTEEN HOURS!!!! Not always, but it happens. So if you asked a volunteer to take a call at 8 in the morning, and not get off the call until 8 at night, losing an entire day of work ( and perhaps his job) there wouldn't be alot of volunteers! I asked him what happens at a shift change in the ambulance corps. He told me the next crew babysits that patient. So you could have two shifts of ambulance crews, or more, all just dealing with the same patient, taking an ambulance off the street, and not having the patient treated, for hours and hours.


This is what we have to look forward to? Frightening.