U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's attorneys say in a court filing that he plans to undergo hernia surgery in Canada because of injuries he suffered when a neighbor attacked Paul while he was doing yard work at his Kentucky home.
The filing in Paul's lawsuit against Rene Boucher says the senator will travel to Ontario, Canada, for outpatient surgery scheduled later this month.
The document says the surgery is related to the 2017 attack. Boucher pleaded guilty to assaulting a member of Congress and was sentenced to 30 days in prison. Federal prosecutors are appealing the sentence.
A Paul spokeswoman didn't immediately explain why Paul is having the surgery in Canada, where medical care is publicly funded and universally provided. Paul touts private-market approaches for U.S. health care problems.
It is world renown and opened in 1945. It’s a little like the resort in The Shining; all the nurses have been there since it opened J
I have had my hernia operation there in 2008, and there were many Americans, from the Amish to executives. The center does about 7,000 procedures per year and the success rate is extremely high.
The cost is about $US 7,000 unless you’re Canadian, than it’s free. You stay three nights and its’s like summer camp for adults except everyone is walking around a little gently.
I expect Mr. Paul will have the procedure and head out to somewhere more private as its reported he's having a day surgery.
Julian Powell
7k procedures per year, average cost $7k
$49M doesn’t seem like enough to support a hospital like that. Not in the US at least.
But they get Ontario Gov OHIP funding
They also charge international patients, who make up a significant portion of such a specialized hospital's clients, much more.
The hospital has 10 surgeons and maybe 100 support/admin staff? Surgeons possibly on something like $350k a year, so $3.5 mill to them. Staff probably on an average $100k a year, so $10 mill to them. Cost to run the place likely a few more million - lets say at least $5 million. Still only looking at around $20-30 million to run the place, even allowing for major additional costs that I didn't account for above. So still likely making at minimum 5-10 million profit a year.
The US medical system is just a massive mess of overcharging
Robert Thomas
7k for three nights if you're not a citizen.FREE if you're Canadian.?! My hospital stay after amputation was like 50,000 a night IIRC. Fuck, how does ANYONE defend the US's horrific system?!
I will gladly continue to pay taxes to fund a medical system that helps people like this.
Ask Rank Paul. He's voted against affordable health care numerous times.
Carson Ross
It's amazing what having 98 fewer middle men can do for the price of things
Gavin Howard
There is goycare and then there is actual medical care in Canada. They never tell Americans this, because they want to demonize our healthcare industry. Go research Canada's "superhospitals" which only service rich people.
Ethan Thomas
All USA is "superhospitals" which only service rich people.
Jeremiah Scott
As if you have a choice, slave.
Nathan Perez
Wrong. I've known people who got millions in medical care pro bono.
Wyatt Collins
So basically Paul is cucking Canadians in to paying for his medical care?
We all know the Canadian phrase: If you pay for your enemies medical care, you win.
Camden Russell
ignorant douche canoes there are only 6 private hospitals left in that province due to Canadian law . he is going to one of them paying out of pocket for an expert in hernias to operate .hernias are one of the most botched operations.,going to the expert. bye felicia
Benjamin Wilson
No, he's going to one of their superhospitals and paying $$$.
Carson Reed
From what people have been saying ITT hes paying some $$$ and the Canadian taxpayer is putting in the rest of the $$$. Im not Canadian so I dont know the complete arrangement.
Samuel Brooks
What the hell
Jose Brown
there's nothing affordable about the affordable care act, the premiums and costs actually went drastically up since it was introduced by Obongo.
Julian Russell
No, there is a separate hospital system which is entirely private. Canadian gov't pays for the goy hospitals where you wait 12 hours for a checkup at a DMV-style facility.
Nathaniel Kelly
I was going off these two posts:
7k if your not a Canadian citizen wouldnt actually pay for everything. So someone is putting in the remainder of the money. I dont see who else it would be but the Canadian taxpayer?
Im from the UK. We do this crap all the time. Because healthcare is seen as free its viewed as something without value that you can freely give away. Its simple psychology. When you're spending strangers money on strangers you tend not to care too much about the value you're getting.
Nathaniel King
The hernia procedure is estimated to cost $5,000 to $8,000 (U.S.), the court document said
Im presuming that it cost Mr Paul 7k. But the total cost for the facilities and procedure would be a lot more. So the Canadaian taxpayers were paying the difference. Im not from Canadia. But I have to presume the same bullshit goes on over there as does here in the UK.
Tyler Ward
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Adam Barnes
That was my first thought on reading the headline. Maybe that's why he's gone to leafland. They might still have some goy doctors.
Brayden Adams
It does sound like a punishment.
Jose Gonzalez
TRUST ME:
you don't get an inguinal hernia from being in a scuffle……
not unless you're COMPLETELY out of shape, and you're such a WEAK LITTLE BITCH that your abdominal muscles gave way just because you had to cower and cover your face when a not-so-tough doctor neighbor shoves you.
Kayden Powell
NOBODY GIVES A FLYING FUCK WHERE HE RECIEVES THE SURGICAL PROCEEDURE
he's like a frail little girl
LOL AN ELDERLY GRANDFATHER ROUGHED HIM UP A LITTLE BIT….. AND HIS SOFT WEAK ABDOMINAL MUSCLES GAVE WAY, ALLOWING HIS INTESTINE TO PROTRUDE BETWEEN THEM
he was so out of shape that he wouldve gotten a hernia if he played softball or had sex with his hideous wife.
sounds like lifting a gallon of milk may have also incapacitated him. He's an ugly Bozo The Clown looking weak ass sissyboy bitch
Levi Hall
Ugly Fucking Sad Sack Rand Paul looks like a fucking Emmett Kelly painting…. Pathetic Faggot
i live in canada and i have never heard of this. i can't even find it anywhere online, only stuff about the montreal hospital merger. im not by any means rich, nor is my family, but my grandfather got to go to one of the best hospitals in the country when he had cancer and they saved his life.
Isaac Collins
oh and sorry, i forgot to mention that it there was no direct cost. in fact, the amount he payed in taxes his whole life that went towards healthcare probably would never measure up to the cost of his treatment, let alone the treatment he got for all of his various other ailments.
Jaxon Sanchez
My wife wendy is THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE REGISTERED NURSE i have ever known, and ive fucked a lot of nurses in my life.
Wendy's training was exemplary, and her nursing director (connie chappalier) was a demanding teacher, leaving no room for anything less than excellence.
I just told Wendy about Rand Paul's claim that he got an inguinal hernia from the scuffle
WENDY BUSTED OUT LAUGHING she said, "BULLSHIT!!! If that were true, he would've gotten a hernia from sneezing or getting out of a bathtub!"
Blake Howard
I had an inguinal hernia……. so im rather familiar with it
And trust me when I say that if you are even halfway in shape you would have to really exert yourself beyond your limits to get an inguinal hernia
Ron Paul likely had this hernia for a few years
Grayson Bailey
ALSO : WHEN THIS EFFEMINATE LITTLE SAWED OF DRAG-QUEEN LOOKING OLD MAN EATS YOUR ASS, AND HE DOESN'T GET A SCRATCH OR A BRUISE……..
I'm no 'badass' by any means but if THIS FAGGOT tried to assault me id hospitalize him before he threw the first punch. it would be like fighting an 8 year old child………………
but this guy remained unscathed
its odd how Rand Paul claims that he got a 'hernia' when he obviously never even fought back
Ok i'll bite. Rand is no super athlete but he does look fitter that your average politician. And that douche is no Brock Lesnar and is old to boot but if i walked in to hostile group of average people, he would be one of the more worrying ones. Paul may have had weak guts but a lot of shit can happen when you take a blow and are completely suprised by it. Of course you are all lefty or fasc subversives so whatev.
Jack Gray
7k period
Jace Russell
he is pretty
K Looks like Bruce Jenner Note the 70's heman chest hair
I'm transition, but I'm too old
Jenner was too old.
He woulda been hot if he had done it in his 20's.
I want to transition because like him, i am a lesbian in a man's body
The main takeaway from this is that you can beat the everliving fuck out of a U.S. Senator and only get 30 days.
Jonathan Allen
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Luis Allen
Affordable health care can't work in america It has too many niggers, same reason gun control won't work You see this in the UK where the NHS is failing due to niggers abusing it If america wants a medicare it needs to kill its non whites
Aaron Nelson
That and the economics of it doesn't work at all.
Dominic Murphy
What a cuck.
Zachary Kelly
Seems very unlikely that some murrican elite would have bargain basement surgery. It would cost more than that in a third world country.
Josiah Allen
anti-slide
Luis Gray
These are not the doctors and medical staff our grandparents had. The medical community has been captured by the globalists. If you need medical care, take a witness with you and demand they stay with you at all times. Dentists and veterinarians - same thing. George Carlin told us and it is true - they own everything, run everything and they keep a list, unlike us, whose countries they infiltrated and exploited for financial gain and now ruin. The new doctors are handing out pain pills by the millions to people who have no pain, they abort our babies eagerly, make it as easy as possible, until many millions go unborn, like a war on the reproduction of Americans, both black and white.
We have a common enemy and with NSA et al, we can find them and drive them into the light, and that is what I hope this govt shutdown does.
I saw a doctor last month and he gave me a 90 pill prescription for pain pills I did not ask for. Take care of your health right now. This is a bad time to need medical care.
In the US, and maybe Canada, no, they are not. Why? Because our grandparents did not have to deal with AA hire niggers fucking things up. He probably picked a reasonably priced hospital with a good reputation with as few niggers as possible.
USA or Canada? From what I'm told be acquaintances, actually effective pain pills are nearly impossible to get anymore, I know people being given 800mg ibuprofen for pain after major fucking surgery.
Parker Powell
bump
Dominic Hall
oh know you mean the plan GOP fought tooth and nail to gimp and prevent from being a healthcare system everyone pays into ended up being more expensive than one that's actually payed for by everyone. colour me shocked that americans are this dumb to believe the propaganda fed to them
Someone post the pic of him kissing that wall in Israel to make these npcs feel even dumber
Aiden Taylor
Vets let my dog die. Literally. It was attacked and they had everything to save him but wanted 10k to move their jewish fingers. And Im supposed to call an attack on a synagogue hate?
Mason Sanders
What's up with the Foxler pic?
Jace Morgan
Just really sexy is all.
Dylan Hughes
I mean when you let the insurance companies write your laws for you you're going to get laws for insurance companies
Being shoved onto the ground does not cause a hernia. Physical injury of any kind does not cause a hernia because it is caused by muscle weakness over time, not muscle tearing all of a sudden. This is plain medical fact.
I fucking guarantee that he's had this hernia for years and has just never gotten around to fixing it because it's only a minor concern, and now that this happened he smells money and blamed it on the guy who attacked him so he can pocket a bazillion dollars in the lawsuit.
Reminds me of something I did when I was a teenager: chipped a tooth doing some stupid shit on an ATV, and then a few days later by chance was in a car that got hit from the side in a minor accident. Got the brainy idea to basically just smack my face onto the door right after it happened (enough to raise a bruise and cut my lip) and then told the cops when they came to file a report that my tooth got chipped right then, too. Along with paying to fix the car, the other driver also had to pay to fix my tooth. A simple scam, but oh so reliable.
