“One of the campaign themes this election cycle is ‘affordable’ healthcare. Shouldn’t we ask ourselves whether we want the politicians who brought us the ‘affordable’ housing, that created the current financial debacle, to now deliver us affordable health care? Shouldn’t we also ask how things turned out in countries where there is socialized medicine? … According to Michael Tanner’s ‘The Grass Is Not Always Greener,’ … the Mayo Clinic treats more than 7,000 foreign patients a year, the Cleveland Clinic 5,000, Johns Hopkins Hospital treats 6,000, and one out of three Canadian physicians send a patient to the U.S. for treatment each year. If socialized medicine is so great, why do Canadian physicians send patients to the U.S. and the Canadian government spends over $1 billion each year on health care in our country? ” (10/22/08)