Get Well Danny Williams

Danny Williams, premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is having heart by-pass surgery today -- in
the United States

 

He must have eaten too much seal blubber and clogged his arteries.

 

I thought you were talking about McGarrett's sidekick.

 

Canada probably determined that it was an elective surgery and put him on a two-year-long waiting list.

 

First of all, Canada wouldn't make any such decision. Health care is a provincial responsibility. Second, I don't exactly know what the procedure in question is, but I would have a very hard time believing that anyone, much less the premier, would have to wait two years for it to be done. This is simply a case of a person who can afford it (his nickname is "Danny Millions") choosing to pay for a procedure to be done immediately in a cash-for-care facility that just happens to be in the United States. There is nothing to see here if you're looking at this as an indictment of health care in Canada. (Although I am well aware the right-wing blogosphere south of the border has, predictably, been whipped into a frenzy by this news.)

 

Anyone from a place that has such good retrievers deserves our best wishes

 

Did they start the operation at 7:00 or 7:30?

 

Quality.

 

Thank you, thank you.

 

Took me a second to get this but well done!

 

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