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"Single Payer is Slavery" Rand Paul Going to Canada for Surgery (Original Post)
rsacamano
Jan 2019
OP
tomhagen
(3,604 posts)1. Will Rand Paul be enlisting the services of Slaves then?
Please follow this hypocrite with a camera crew to document his hypocrisy
Fla Dem
(23,692 posts)2. Just to be accurate, he having the surgery at a private hospital.
Rand Paul to travel to Canada for hernia surgery
By Elizabeth Landers, CNN
Updated 1:09 PM ET, Tue January 15, 2019
CNN)Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky will travel to Canada for surgery related to an attack he sustained by a neighbor in November 2017.
Sergio Gor, the senator's communications director, confirmed that Paul sought specialized surgery for a hernia issue at Shouldice Hernia Hospital in Ontario, Canada.
"This is a private, world-renowned hospital separate from any system and people come from around the world to pay cash for their services," Gor said.
The Louisville Courier Journal reported Monday that Paul would seek the surgery later this month.
The website for the hospital touts itself as "the global leader in non-mesh hernia repair" that has been operating for more than 70 years.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/rand-paul-canada-surgery/index.html
By Elizabeth Landers, CNN
Updated 1:09 PM ET, Tue January 15, 2019
CNN)Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky will travel to Canada for surgery related to an attack he sustained by a neighbor in November 2017.
Sergio Gor, the senator's communications director, confirmed that Paul sought specialized surgery for a hernia issue at Shouldice Hernia Hospital in Ontario, Canada.
"This is a private, world-renowned hospital separate from any system and people come from around the world to pay cash for their services," Gor said.
The Louisville Courier Journal reported Monday that Paul would seek the surgery later this month.
The website for the hospital touts itself as "the global leader in non-mesh hernia repair" that has been operating for more than 70 years.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/rand-paul-canada-surgery/index.html
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)4. Yes, that's true, BUT . . .
Part of the argument he and other Republicans made during the healthcare debate was that Canadian-style "socialized medicine" would be the ruination of medical care in this country. Yet, clearly it has not been the ruination of healthcare in Canada. So the irony still stands.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)3. Rand Paul has never been anything better than an Ayn Rand panty sniffer
It's hard to decide which is worse, a person who actually believes in looneytarian nonsense, or one that just pretends.