Immigration legislation can’t even voted on because of the Republicans, yet a disabled tourist from that hotbed of terrorism, Canada, can’t come in (worse, just passing through) because of a past bout of depression. Just giving thanks for what a great country we live in that we should be protected so well!
Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying to New York City and from there going on a 10-day Caribbean cruise for which she’d paid about $6,000. But a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with the Department of Homeland Security killed that dream when he denied her entry.
“I was turned away, I was told, because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression,” said Richardson, who is a paraplegic and set up her cruise in collaboration with a March of Dimes group of about 12 others.
The Weston woman was told by the U.S. agent she would have to get “medical clearance” and be examined by one of only three doctors in Toronto whose assessments are accepted by Homeland Security. She was given their names and told a call to her psychiatrist “would not suffice.”At the time, Richardson said, she was so shocked and devastated by what was going on, she wasn’t thinking about how U.S. authorities could access her supposedly private medical information.
The War on Crazy… Canuk.
“Give me your tired your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breath free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore” Not
“Whew! That was a bad swim. I don’t feel so well– does this exudant look green to you?? Anyways… Hi, nigga! I mean, brother.
Inevitable consequences again. You want Government powerful enough to redistribute and give to you (say, single payer, intended end of Obamacare,…; “tax the rich”; regulate Carbon [and if Carbon, why not Oxygen you breathe], make you by law to buy only one kind of lightbulb,…) – you get Government that can abuse. End of story. You elect Fascist with Fascist motives and Fascist methods – you get Fascism. Well, there is a circle instead of swastika (though swastika was inside of a circle…).
True that!
It’s as if we’re all in a big giant goddamned reality TV show or something.
THE TROUBLE ISN’T
THAT THERE ARE
TOO MANY
FOOLS,
BUT THAT THE
LIGHTNING ISN’T
DISTRUBTED
RIGHT
–MARK TWAIN
Hain’t we got all the fools in our town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town? –Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
What’s your point?
Could they have learned of her condition from her website or the book she wrote on her depression?
FTW
Y.OK.IDKWTFTM!CUE?
“What??”
http://youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=x4MVKxBpjHI#t=4996
FTW — ???
(F)u*k (T)he (W)eenie?
(F)orward (T)he (W)ork?
(F)un (T)imes @ (W)ork?
(F)or (T)he (W)in?
(F)are (T)hee (W)ell?
(F)or (T)hose (W)ondering?
(F)ort (W)orth (T)exas?
WTF?! (What the Fu*k?)
Is there some reason you can’t/won’t TYPE?! Are you a some kind of dangerous phone head?! Or are you just some kind of lazy (governmental) acronym idiot? Because replying/posting comments with just 3 letter is a bit fu*ked up.
… And in case that’s supposed to mean (F)or (T)hose (W)ondering, maybe you need to get a dictionary and look up the word REDUNDANT!
…
Y.OK.IDKWTFTM.CUE?
(Y)a. OK. (I) (D)on’t (K)now (W)hat (T)hat (F)u*king (T)hing (M)eans! (C)ould (Y)ou (E)xplain?
Surely, you could have figured that out.
What does this have to do with immigration legislation not coming to a vote?
Or are you saying this wouldn’t happen if it could come to a vote, that this is Obama declaring to deport more people to give a show of enforcement so as to push for the legislation to pass?
You can expect more of this as the government takes over your health records under ObamaCare. Or did you think Electronic Medical Records was about efficiency?
EMR is about efficiency. The days of scribbled potions and recipes on dead trees will soon be over.
Soon you can take transfer your anal fistula cure efficiently, accurately and instantly to any witch doctor you like.
If Homeland is looking thru medical records, then they need to reject all the people coming here for health care. Sure it would hurt Michigan doctors and hospitals, but it would expose the argument that Canadians have better health care, and help prevent something like that here. Plus, then maybe Canadians will act to improve their own system.
If the current US healthcare system is so great, why does the company my sister works fly employees to India for surgeries and recuperation?
If Canadians are flying through on their way to India, that should be banned as well. Then again, no-one from Canada would fly such a silly route.
Nope! It’s a hard argument that Canadians have better health care. Because if Canadians did have better health care then why are they coming to America for it? (It’s a rhetorical question that pretty much answers itself for those of you who might be of a lesser intelligence.)
About the only good thing you can say about the Canadian health care system is that for Canadians, it’s free! Never mind who PAYS for it. Liberals can’t even conceive of those more complicated issues like economics, taxes or wealth. The (moronic liberal) mindset seems to be saying: as long as it’s free then screw it (and anyone else who disagrees since they’re probably rich evil bastards anyway). Liberals these days are like mean dogs who don’t realize who’s feeding them – or where their owners get the food!
Very soon, if Obamacare continues on it’s current course, we will see American’s and Canadian’s going to Mexico in even bigger numbers than we do now. But wait! Isn’t there a big giant wall going up along the border?! (Again, rhetorical…)
Around 1990, a relative of a secretary where I worked was taken ill in Tampa, Florida. After being examined at an area hospital, it was determined the relative had a brain tumor that required immediate surgery. The only place where the required type of surgery was performed was Toronto, Ontario in Canada. A couple of hours after entering the hospital the relative was put on a private jet for a three hour flight to Toronto while an operating room was being prepared. This kind of cooperation saved a life.
Is healthcare a world-wide human right?
Be careful how you answer. The implications expose a mother lode of problems.
How do you fix a bleeding heart, eh?
It shouldn’t be a worldwide human right. Too expensive and impractical.
Frackin Fascist. Huzza USA.
It turns out that she had blogged and Facebooked – among other things – about her depression and hospital stay so it was common knowledge. Medical records had nothing to do with it. Any Google search will bring it all up.
Pedro, stop misunderstanding Dallas, and appreciate the wonder that is ObamaCare.
It is not so much that tens of millions will have their substandard health-care plans from bad-apple insurers canceled but that they will go to Obamacare exchanges to buy much more expensive substandard plans from bad-apple insurers, in order to subsidize people who don’t have substandard health insurance from bad-apple insurers but can now get substandard health insurance from bad-apple insures even if it’s with a deductible so high that they effectively don’t have health insurance, substandard or otherwise. But their plans will at least cover contraceptives and abortifacients for the millions of fecund 60-year-olds who had nothing else to do and got pregnant when Ted Cruz shut down the government so they couldn’t get contraceptives from their doctors who aren’t in their substandard plan’s provider network, mainly because they unnecessarily perform amputations and tonsillectomies for extra cash which they’ll now need because they’ll be getting low reimbursement rates from the tremendous increase in Medicaid patients. Who had no trouble enrolling on HealthCare.gov because the other 42 Obamacare applicants were busy reporting to the FBI that all their medical and financial information has been hacked by Republicans determined to make Obamacare look as bad as they’ve made the IRS look when it tried to protect our federal government from tea partiers who want to keep their substandard plans primarily because they’re racists who blame the president for the failed stimulus, the stagnant economy, high unemployment, doubling the national debt, the 47 million on food stamps, the 48 million in poverty, declining household incomes, Kathleen Sebelius, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and Iran’s getting a nuclear weapon next year, none of which the president knew about until he heard about them from news reports like everybody else. And all of which are George W. Bush’s fault.