This is one reason Americans wanted a Canadian style medical system [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

My brother did his residency at Toronto Gen, oh in the dark ages. SO one day comes two people into the Emergency Room. One was the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Mulroney, the other was a street person.

Unlike here, both received the same level of care and the staff did not care who was who in the zoo. Ok, with the PM they had to make a few allowances to his security team. But medically they did not.

Now do people get misdiagnosed in Canada? Yes.

Do people get treatment too late to make a tinker's damn of a difference? Yes.

Do Canadians STILL live three years more than Americans, by national health stats? Yes.

Does the system spend about half of what we spend? Yes.

And this was off the table... we are not even allowed to discuss this.

Now this is one of the many reasons the base is pissed...

Fired up and ready to go... not so much.

And yes I am glad that we got SOMETHING, but the President did not make the hard choices, or use his capital to put pressure on the House and the Senate. Again that is why the base is pissed.

Then we can go into Labor policies, or teachers, or the LGTB... or many other constituencies. And telling people they want just poutrage or that they will never be happy... will only help you to make friends and influence people, NOT.

Oh and yes I do get it how the system works, and how far the filibuster has been abused, or what they promised to do to take some bite out of it if they keep the senate (which I will believe when I see it)... but your approach is way off. You need to ask WHY people are pissed, not attack them. Leave the attack to the WH. I gave up on them caring or reaching out to core constituency. And if in November they lose... do me a favor and place the blame where it belongs. It is not with the voter by the way, though I expect it. Nor do I expect this to make any tinkers damn of a difference as in some people's eyes we just don't get it... sadly we do, far better than you believe.

Nadin