Friday Funnies

Comparing American and Canadian health care

Comments

[Ascended Kyle Jordan]

B-.

Funny in a cynical, anger inducing way.

[ed]

The mustache is amusing.

[Adolph]

NOT!!

[Death Panelist]

Nicht?

[Ascended Kyle Jordan]

Another thing I'd like to say is that the tall doctor's stare is fucking frightening. It's completely hollow and with the head tilt, has a kind of Michael Myers air about it.

[ed]

I was thinking Don Martin.

[Curly]

Or the Reason Gear girl.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So the Canadian official is having surgery to remove the American flag from his erection?

[Suki]

It was a rigged erection.

[Rimfax]

WIN

[The Art-P.O.G.]

+1

[Jimmy 'Crack' Corn]

+4

[Bingo]

I think I'm going to start a rumor that healthcare reform is a homosexual conspiracy to force good Christians to pay for the bodily harm that results from deviant sexual practices.

[Some Guy]

You've been beaten to it many times over.

You're gonna have to come up with something way crazier to have an original one.

[Xeones]

Is this cartoon funny?

Non.

[Some Guy]

When was the last Friday Funny that was?

I think there have been 1 or 2 as long as I've been reading them.

[Jimmy 'Crack' Corn]

This is one of the best I have seen in a while.

[Henri]

In Soviet Canada official asks you!

[healthscarequotes]

ah, the episode of MASH when Dr. Katz guest-starred

[Banjos Kick Ass!]

+1

[P Brooks]

I came, I saw, I went away.

[Mad Max]

To be fair to Canada, I think this cartoon is misleading.

If the Canadian official speaks French, chances are he's from Quebec, where there's a right to private insurance, according to the Canadian Supreme Court in the case of Chaoulli v. Attorney General (see Wikipedia discussion here).

This decision was based on the constitutional law of Quebec, so technically it doesn't apply to other Canadian provinces, although people in other provinces will probably try to invoke it.

So the cartoon should have had the Canadian official speaking English, so as to indicate that he came from one of the provinces where private insurance is still prohibited.

[Mike Laursen]

And, in Bok's explanation of the cartoon (see link below), it's referring to the Premier of Newfoundland coming to the U.S. for heart surgery.

[Mad Max]

Isn't Newfoundland an anglophone province?

[Frankyb]

Oh crisse que non dude. We do have a right to pay for private clinics here in Quebec, but if we have a right to private health insurrance, I'd really, really like you to tell me which company offers that.

If I recall, this case only made private clinics legal, not private health insurrance, but then again I might by wrong, if so please do tell me as I'd really like to get some real health insurrance here.

[Mad Max]

Wikipedia link doesn't work - it should be

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoulli_v._Quebec

[Mike Laursen]

Hmm, Bok has a website with all of his cartoons. Could it be that Bok is a real person, and not an elaborate practical joke by Nick Gillespie, as I had thought?

The best part about the website is that he explains each cartoon. Here's his explanation of the Canadian health care cartoon:

http://www.bokbluster.com/?p=2679

[Yet another dave]

What never ceases to amaze me is that these assholes continually pull this shit, while vigorously opposing and blocking any attempt to allow more freedom in our health care here. They keep getting voted back in. Every election when health care comes up they just show some toothless hillbilly who lost his trailer to pay for his sistercousin's appendectomy and sheeple buy it arrrg

[PIRS]

Thanks. The explaination given is "Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland, has come the U.S. for heart surgery." But he should know that Newfoundland is an English Speaking province - well - sort of.

[Jim]

I was wondering how a Newfie would pronounce "Non."

[Ratko]

Thanks for the link, I was a little confused by what appeared to be Hitler laying on the gurney.

In a parallel universe, in which Hitler was the patient his voice bubble would have read: "Schnell schnell before I die of old age!"

[Frankyb]

The guy on the bed is not really canadian, the "eh" is missing at the end of that sentence.

[Lamar]

Ha ha ha ha ha!! Yes! He he he.

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I don't get it.

[Paul]

The Canadian official is in the American hospital receiving private healthcare. Which the Canadian official doesn't allow citizens of Canada to do.

[Lamar]

Thank you. My mood is now back to:

@8l

[kyle]

Really?
I was under the impression that Canadian healthcare insurance allowed for private healthcare.

[Ratko]

It does, as long as you pay for it yourself and recieve it outside of Canada.

[Isaac Bartram]

Doctors in Canada are private practitioners, however for most medical procedures they are only allowed to accept payment from the Provincial health plan where they practice. The accountants who runs these plans get to decide when a procedure is necessary and if so how long the patient must wait to receive treatment.

Exceptions include, but are not limited to, cosmetic surgery.

Some hospitals are private and some public. They are likewise limited to taking payment from the government plan for most treatment and the same cost controls (ie rationing) are in effect. Some hospitals have been known to supplement their incomes by allowing their MRIs and CAT scans to be used for vetinary purposes for a fee since owners are perfectly free to pay for their pets' medical care.

[Isaac Bartram]

By "most medical procedures" I actually mean "almost all medical procedures".

[abercrombie milano]

My only point is that if you take the Bible straight, as I'm sure many of Reasons readers do, you will see a lot of the Old Testament stuff as absolutely insane. Even some cursory knowledge of Hebrew and doing some mathematics and logic will tell you that you really won't get the full deal by just doing regular skill english reading for those books. In other words, there's more to the books of the Bible than most will ever grasp. I'm not concerned that Mr. Crumb will go to hell or anything crazy like that! It's just that he, like many types of religionists, seems to take it literally, take it straight...the Bible's books were not written by straight laced divinity students in 3 piece suits who white wash religious beliefs as if God made them with clothes on...the Bible's books were written by people with very different mindsets...in order to really get the Books of the Bible, you have to cultivate such a mindset, it's literally a labyrinth, that's no joke.

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