Rand Paul to have surgery in Canada due to injuries sustained during assault

[Rogue Valley]

Rand Paul to have surgery in Canada due to injuries sustained during assault

1/14/19
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul plans to undergo hernia surgery at a private hospital in Canada because of injuries he suffered when a neighbor tackled him while he was doing yard work at his Kentucky home. The Republican lawmaker is scheduled to cross the border for outpatient surgery scheduled sometime during the week of Jan. 21 at a hospital in Thornhill, Ontario, his attorneys said in a recent filing in Paul's lawsuit against Rene Boucher, who attacked Paul while the senator was doing yard work. Paul is scheduled for surgery at Shouldice Hospital. An adviser to Paul said that the hospital is world-renowned for the procedure, known as "non-mesh hernia repair," and is a private entity that is not part of the Canadian system. In choosing Shouldice, Paul will receive care in a country that offers its citizens a publicly funded, universal health care system that runs counter to Paul's approach to American health care policy.

Canada? Senator Paul loves Russia so much, why not schedule the hernia surgery during his next jaunt to Moscow? You're not setting a good example komrade.

Related: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is going to Canada for surgery

 

[Helix]

Canada? what is he thinking? why, he could get the best health care in the world[sup]TM[/sup] right here!

lol.

 

[Tom Horn]

Private entity not part of...........yet part of.........

 

[VanceMack]

The amount of stupidity in the OP....

1-Where the **** do you get the notion that Rand Paul is a big supporter of Moscow, and
2-Yes...Rand Paul is traveling to a PRIVATE institution, one that due to their status as a PRIVATE facility manages to provide the best services in the world...to those that can afford to pay for it.

You arent doing what you THINK you are doing. You are instead indicting socialized medicine as two systems...one for the haves...and one for the have-nots.

 

[azgreg]

This isn't the "gotcha" some people might think it is. Paul will have to pay for his procedure out of pocket and then get reimbursed by his insurance later.

 

[sangha]

Rand Paul to have surgery in Canada due to injuries sustained during assault

Canada? Senator Paul loves Russia so much, why not schedule the hernia surgery during his next jaunt to Moscow? You're not setting a good example komrade.

Related: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is going to Canada for surgery

Rand Paul

Hates socialized medicine

Goes to Canada for surgery

 

[calamity]

Rand Paul to have surgery in Canada due to injuries sustained during assault

Canada? Senator Paul loves Russia so much, why not schedule the hernia surgery during his next jaunt to Moscow? You're not setting a good example komrade.

Related: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is going to Canada for surgery

Well, if I had to choose between surgery in Kentucky or Canada, it's a no ****ing brainier.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Rand Paul

Hates socialized medicine

Goes to Canada for surgery

Do as I say, not as I do.

 

[Crovax]

Rand Paul

Hates socialized medicine

Goes to Canada for surgery

Goes to a private facility not connected with socialized medicine

Maybe if DP had a crayon font you wouldn’t have made the mistake :shrug:

 

[Mr Person]

Goes to a private facility not connected with socialized medicine

Maybe if DP had a crayon font you wouldn’t have made the mistake :shrug:

Seeing as children use crayons, do you happen to be saying something about him as a poster?

 

[Deuce]

The amount of stupidity in the OP....

1-Where the **** do you get the notion that Rand Paul is a big supporter of Moscow, and
2-Yes...Rand Paul is traveling to a PRIVATE institution, one that due to their status as a PRIVATE facility manages to provide the best services in the world...to those that can afford to pay for it.

You arent doing what you THINK you are doing. You are instead indicting socialized medicine as two systems...one for the haves...and one for the have-nots.

So the best healthcare in the world is found in Canada, despite their socialism?

And you think this is a point against universal healthcare?

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

2-Yes...Rand Paul is traveling to a PRIVATE institution, one that due to their status as a PRIVATE facility manages to provide the best services in the world...to those that can afford to pay for it.

But the fact that this exists alongside universal health care destroys the conservative argument. You can have great healthcare AND universal healthcare.

 

[haymarket]

Look - I despise Rand Paul and think he is the personification of a right wing libertarian slime ball. But if he wants to go to Canada to get surgery, its his right to do so and it should not be any big deal.

 

[Deuce]

Look - I despise Rand Paul and think he is the personification of a right wing libertarian slime ball. But if he wants to go to Canada to get surgery, its his right to do so and i should not be any big deal.

I think haymarket has the right to post on this message board.

 

[NeverTrump]

Rand Paul to have surgery in Canada due to injuries sustained during assault

Canada? Senator Paul loves Russia so much, why not schedule the hernia surgery during his next jaunt to Moscow? You're not setting a good example komrade.

Related: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is going to Canada for surgery

If your last name is Paul, you are a hypocrite. It runs in the blood.

 

[NeverTrump]

Look - I despise Rand Paul and think he is the personification of a right wing libertarian slime ball. But if he wants to go to Canada to get surgery, its his right to do so and it should not be any big deal.

I must hate the Pauls more than you do b/c I do not agree and yes, I have a personal bias against them.

 

[Helix]

If your last name is Paul, you are a hypocrite. It runs in the blood.

i did like his dad in my waning days of libertarianism. voting for him in the 2007 fox primary poll was fun. Hannity got really pissed off when he won every time, lol.

 

[Taylor]

You can have great healthcare and universal healthcare.

In Paul's case, he chose the former over the latter.

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

This kind of thing is why I am absolutely amazed at how often Middle class and Working class Republicans defend and stick up for the rich in this country. The rich send their kids to private schools, they go anywhere in the world for the best health care, and have their own security. In other words the rich don't give a rats ass about public schools, public health care/insurance or if police forces are strapped for money. In other words they don't care about Middle Class services..

Yet the Republican base sits there and listens to the millionaires on Con TV and in their own party tell them they don't want to pay anymore taxes, and even though they are cutting their own throats, the idiot GOP base agrees with them..

 

[Finch]

The amount of stupidity in the OP....

1-Where the **** do you get the notion that Rand Paul is a big supporter of Moscow, and
2-Yes...Rand Paul is traveling to a PRIVATE institution, one that due to their status as a PRIVATE facility manages to provide the best services in the world...to those that can afford to pay for it.

You arent doing what you THINK you are doing. You are instead indicting socialized medicine as two systems...one for the haves...and one for the have-nots.

I don't know where you are getting your information. Any resident of Ontario is FULLY covered with OHIP which eligibility requires you to only be a resident of Ontario. This is universal health care for the people of Ontario. People in Canada that do not live in Ontario will get reimbursed depending on on their provinces applicable schedule of medical fees. Either way if a patient that lives in Canada but not in Ontario their provincial healthcare plan will significantly subsidize the cost. This hospital maybe privately run but the cost is still covered by provincial health plans (being free to residents of Ontario). This is socialized medicine all way around...

 

[RaleBulgarian]

... and then get reimbursed by his insurance later.

You sure about that? A U.S. insurer reimbursing a client for elective surgery outside the U.S.? Maybe you’re right, I’m just curious.

 

[azgreg]

You sure about that? A U.S. insurer reimbursing a client for elective surgery outside the U.S.? Maybe you’re right, I’m just curious.

As someone who's had a hernia operation it shouldn't be considered elective and out of country is considered out of network.

 

[Rexedgar]

As someone who's had a hernia operation it shouldn't be considered elective and out of country is considered out of network.

I don’t know anything about Kentucky medicine, but hernia repair is low on the degree of difficulty scale. First hand knowledge...

 

[Middle_Ground]

I don't know where you are getting your information. Any resident of Ontario is FULLY covered with OHIP which eligibility requires you to only be a resident of Ontario. This is universal health care for the people of Ontario. People in Canada that do not live in Ontario will get reimbursed depending on on their provinces applicable schedule of medical fees. Either way if a patient that lives in Canada but not in Ontario their provincial healthcare plan will significantly subsidize the cost. This hospital maybe privately run but the cost is still covered by provincial health plans (being free to residents of Ontario). This is socialized medicine all way around...

Thank you

 

[Diving Mullah]

This isn't the "gotcha" some people might think it is. Paul will have to pay for his procedure out of pocket and then get reimbursed by his insurance later.

Nice of him to have Government provided Insurance. Because for most of us private citizens that would be definitely out of network. I know from personal experience, that is not covered in almost all privately owned health insurance, and many even in case of emergency.

Diving Mullah