why is it not offered in canada?ause a stint, costs, i don't know, a thousand dollars, it's know, a thousand dollars, it's cheaper to do the bypass procedure. so that is one way that the customized system is affected. another excellent example is an access to drugs. there are evidently 25 pharmaceuticals which are deemed to be effective for treating cancer. depending on which province you have, you may or may not have access to them. in british columbicolumbia, we of 25. hopefully if you come down with cancer, your particular type is receptive by one of those 23. what if you live in prince edward island, they only approve one out of the 25. you would have to be very lucky to have cancer that was treatable by that one drug. but what if you had cancer that required one of other 24? you would be just out of luck. >> that's exactly what our concern is, which is physicians ought to be able to have the maximum amount of freedom to customize and taylor the care per the particular need of their patient. each patient is diffe

george turned to geoffrey canada. well, he said, that was a first. now i want you to hear from the person you will hear from if you read this book,. i want to ask you a few questions and get you talking about what you are doing in harlem. that me ask you about, victor ranchero had theiand cheryl had year-and-a-half old. one parent dropped out of college, still having trouble with the law, they're both living, have a hard time finding an apartment together, they are both living with their parents. a kid like that, in those circumstances, what does it take? what does it take to get him from where he is to college and graduate from college? >> thank you. you can get an idea of why i allowed paul to spend five years, i didn't know what was in the balkan july read it. about halfway through the book i didn't think it was quite such a good idea to allow reporter. but in the end, it was important. before i answer the question about victor, let me say why i let paul have access. i didn't know what was in the book, i didn't know what people would say, they cou

in canada is 25% higher than it is in the united states. on and the top two medicines that we use for chemotherapy for in france stage colon cancer are both banned in canada. not because of health or safety concerns but because they are too expensive so they make patients receive the medication we stopped using 10 years ago and as a result of you get colon cancer in canada at you have a 41 percent chance of dying or as of to get it in the u.s. you have a 32 percent chance of dying. so the next time you are talking to somebody like children and they are in favor of health insurance tell them if mom got cancer would you like to have to wait eight weeks to get radiation because there weren't enough machines and enough doctors to go around? because that is the price of one obama is doing. it is not that he will ever catch up with a number of doctors because the cost controls is imposing will reduce the number of doctors and will create a longer delay is. four years ago there was only a four week wait for radiation in canada, last year in went u

places like canada, united and kingdom and europe.ple die when they're in line. >> and of course, this just in. no with one in the united states dies at all. this has been a familiar republican refrain lately. not only is it crazy and wrong, it's offensive to our neighbors north of the border who actually have a pretty darn good health care system, and they're really sick and tired of these gop attacks. joining me now live from toronto is the leader of canada's new democrats, jack lleyton. mr. lleyton, good to have you with us tonight here on "the ed show" on msnbc. what is your response to the basic tone that has been presented by the anti-s of the a public option in the united states and the way they're using your system to really be the boogie man in all of this. what are your thoughts on this. >> thanks for the opportunity to set the record straight. the republican insurance industry-driven campaign to try to freent the public option from coming forward in the united states reminds us of a battle we had 50 years ago. the democrati

in canada. glenn: i don't have a problem with canada! >> canada doesn't exist! glenn: john, let's start with you, the canadian healthcare -- i'm tired of hearing, because i grew up across the border in bellingham, washington. i know the people, they built a special part of the hospital just for all the people coming in across the border to escape canadian healthcare. tell me what you found out in canada. >> what stuck most with me was the town that had a lottery. so many people were waiting to get a family doctor. they can't get one. once a month the town clerk pulls names out of the box and calls the lucky winners, congratulations, you get to see a doctor. glenn: penn, insurance really is, i think, the problem, because we have no restraint. we have no restraint whatsoever. >> yeah. if you have food insurance, there's nothing but gourmet shops. what we have is not really insurance. what we have is prepaid. that's a very big difference. if you had it so that the people could get real honest catastrophic coverage so they were really covered if they lost a lot of m

another one says, i've used canada's health care system. left in a waiting room while the docs smoked and lunch in a side room. myspace, robert, and that one about governor sanford that says, yeah, sanford. i don't even know what to say about him. not sure how he'll be able to work it out when i think he said that the mistress was his soulmate. yep. he did. i want you to look at this protest in minneapolis. these are somali americans. they're angry because someone has been luring their young men, living in america, now, speaking english like we do in many cases, to fight and die half a world away in somalia's civil war. at least a dozen young men have disappeared over the past year and a half, and at least three of them have turned up dead in somalia. now, what happens if they're trained there and they come back here? that's potential terrorism. here's cnn's report. >> reporter: far from the streets of somalia, a somali american family gathers in front of their home in minneapolis, caught up in this bloody conflict. a mother mourns her belo

canada is in neighboring. we see anecdotal evidence all the time of canadians coming to minnesota because we have a mayo clinic there. i'm not sure why you travel all the way to arizona. we have a male clinic in rochester, minn., that is famous. you could have chosen to come to several hospitals in meristem that -- and minnesota. we have had examples of hospitals around country where canadians have gone. you did that because he needed to, you had to, and you could. i think the phrase mr. baker said was the u.s. is the canadian system of last resort. so let me start with you, if i could. if the united states were to adopt a system like canada has, with a government-run health plan, to you think the mayo clinic in rochester and others would be able to provide services for you and other canadians? >> i'm not sure that would continue to happen. i don't see where the need would be on either side. what i think is if americans needed a place to run if your facilities are completely bogged down and back up and mirrors

how can canada be so close? could some of it be that because canada is so close, mr. speaker? could it be that canadians come from canada down into detroit to get their cancer treatment? could it be that their coming down to the mayo clinic in minnesota to get their cancer treatment? could that be one of the reasons why their survival rates are better in canada as compared to the other countries that have a socialized medicine program? but make no mistake, mr. speaker, this is socialized medicine. it's the government writing the rules, it's taking away your freedom. you can't own your health insurance policy the way you own it today. the government will interfere and intervene and will write new rules. when the president says that you get to keep your plan if you like it, well, i guess maybe if you're working for a company, you may get to keep your plan if you don't like it. but when wal-mart makes a decision as they did a couple of weeks ago that they would endorse an employer-mandated health insurance plan, that should tell us something. why would wal-mart do that? they insu

do you have a problem in canada with this?ok, i believe there are wait times for many things including knee surgery, or mris. if you have excruciating pain and people believe that you may be in danger of losing a limb or life, you go to the front of the line. i told you, i've been in this country since 1968, i got married here, i have three sons, three grandchildren, i never had to pay one red cent and no one has ever gone untreated. the fact is that people like senator barrasso talk about exceptions. what the united states does -- >> but let me press you, the same way i pressed him. >> yes. >> is it not true that there are long delays, long waits for certain procedures in canada? is that not true? >> it is true. there are sometimes undue delays in certain procedures that may not be life threatening, for conditions which may not be life threatening. that's true. the fact is, you have situations where people go to the united states because they can spend a hundred thousand dollars on a nonlife threatening cyst and go to the may

he saw some things in canada. we have written a book about it, written extensively about it have spoken out about this or is it a change. what happened that made you change your mind to do. >> governor want to overstate my point. revenue canada i soaked up a few things from the environment. a local ice hockey, an ability to convert turnpike to celsius and i had also believe that if government did when they came to health care it would be compassionate and fair. again when i was an adolescent growing up in canada what i wanted to do is get in medical school. i was at a health policy expert. i got into medical school and i saw the compassion of the system that i saw people are treated and frankly, governor, i got bumped by reality. >> mike: you saw that people were waiting in long lines just to get to another line. i think what a lot of americans want to know is if we go to a government run healthcare system, what likely is to happen to the individual consumer to do how does this affect the guy out there who. >> loo

canada and the united kingdom are living through what can only be described as a universal nightmare. take a look at what could soon be a reality right here in america. >> as president i will sign a universal health care plan into law by the end of my first term in office. >> folks, reform is coming. it is on track, it is coming. sean: it's coming all right, and if the obama administration has its way, millions of americans are staring at another massive government tax hike. >> the reform of health care are very worrisome to me. i think they represent a slippery slope for health care reform to be successful, they have to reduce costs, and the only way in fact to reduce cost is to reduce services, and ration care. sean: canada and the uk have government-run health care systems and many opponents say be careful for what you wish for. >> i think that once the american people realize that this is where the plan will lead us, they will not accept it. sean: shana holmes is a native of ontario, canada, and she knows all too well the struggles of being a patient in a government operated healt

george turned to geoffrey canada. well, he said, that was a first. [laughter] so now i want to let you hear from the person in the book which is geoffrey canada. if you're all right, as a few questions and did you talking about when you were doing in harlem. so let me ask you first about so victor and cheryl had their baby named victor, jr. he is now about a year and have told. and so, despite the fact he went through a college he still has a lot of strikes against him. he has parents who have a hard time finding jobs, one dropped out of college and still has trouble with the law. they both are living -- they have a hard time finding an apartment. they are living both with their parents. and so a kid like that in those circumstances what does it take, you want to get into college, what does it take to get him where he is now to college and graduate from college? >> thank you, paul and charlie. you can get an idea why i allowed paul to spend five years. i actually didn't know what was in the book until i read. about halfway through the book i didn't t

unup with a situation they have now in canada. one of the big reasons we rushed this book into print-- we only finished writing it on may 6, it was in the stores six weeks later, is to get the facts about the canadian healthcare system out there to the american people. canada essays 16% high are cancer death rate than the united states, and have this many poor people so you think would be the other way around. and a 6% higher hardee's-- diseased that right. it is an eight week wait in canada for radiation for cancer. it is an eight month wait in canada for a colonoscopy, and as a result the incidence of colon cancer in candidate is 25% higher than it is in the united states. and the top two medicines that we use for chemotherapy for advanced stage call on cancer are both banned in candidate, not because of health or safety concerns but because they are too expensive so they make patients receive the medication we stopped using ten years ago, and as a result if you get colon cancer in canada you have a 41% chance of dying, where is

canada. and -- medicine in canada. and now thinking about what that means, for the canadians, lost their freedom, when they decided to go for a little security and still try to keep some freedom. they lost their freedoms on their health insurance and maybe they are a little bit more secure, but the quality of their health care doesn't match up to the quality here in the united states. and so what we know is that, let's just say the cancer survivors in canada, their numbers look better than the people in the united kingdom or the european union that have been diagnosed with cancer. more canadians survive with cancer than do the other countries that have a socialized medicine program. and i don't know the numbers and i probably won't get time in this debate over the next week or maybe a little more to drill back into this and be able to compare the statistics. mr. speaker, i'm going to suggest that a factor involved is the canadian proximate imity to american health care -- proximatity to american health care has helped

of canada day. canada day, otherwise known as canada's birthday, celebrates the 1867 enactment of the british north america act which united canada as a con federation of four provinces. one of our closest friends and ally, i'd like to thank the people of canada and their government for their friendship and steadfast support of this country over many, many years. the relationship between the u.s. and canada is among the closest and most extensive in the world. our two countries maintain the world's largest trading relationship, exchanging the equivalent of $1.5 billion in goods each day. canada's the single largest foreign supplier of energy to the u.s., including oil, uranium, natural gas and electricity. in 2008 the u.s. imported energy from canada worth $111 billion. and every day about 300,000 people cross our shared border. we have fought against tyranny on the same side in both the first and second world wars, for freedom and peace and threats to the international security. when the u.s. was f

you end up with the situation they have now and canada. one of the big reasons we rush to this book into printing, we only finished writing on may 6th, within the store six weeks later -- is to get the facts about the canadian health care system out there to the american people. canada has a 16% higher cancer death rate than in the united states. and half as many poor people so you think it would be the other way around. a 6% higher heart disease death rate. it is an eight week wait in canada for radiation for cancer. you have to open -- you have to be -- it is an eight month rate in canada for a colonoscopy. and as a result the incidence of colon cancer in canada is 25% higher than it is in the u.s.. and the top two medicines that we use for chemotherapy for advance stage colon cancer are both banned in canada. not because of health or safety concerns but because they're too expensive so they make patients receiving the medication, we stopped using it 10 years ago. and as a result if you get colon cancer in canada you have a 41 percent ch

that's what goes on in canada now. nice packages offered to people who will be flown out of the country to america, the united states of america, for their health care. because it's rationed in canada. that's not enough, mr. speaker. would anybody go out and go through the websites and yellow pages in canada and take a look at the companies that have formed up there, the travel companies that package up health care trips to the united states. hip replacement is easy to figure out. let's just say you live over in british columbia, vancouver, make it further. how about calgary in alberta? you got one of these painful hips you're gymping around on and you stand in a long line in the cue and finally get into the government doctor and he looks at you and does the x-ray, your socket is burned out. all worn out. you have to have a hip replacement. i knew that. i stood in line for hours or days to have you tell me that. i have been limping it for years. i want it fixed. that's fine we have a line over here you can get into tha

they have a payment systems that they have in canada. in canada love the health-care system. >> i am going to have to go back, obviously, because when you look at what obama is going to do, it will getç worse here. a way to control costs, they are talking about setting up a global budget for patients, doctors, hospitals, which would mean that a doctor would be paid, say, monthly or once a çyear, for the fall treatment f a patient. i sure they aren't going -- for the full treatment of a patient. i am sure they are going to like that. glenn: if we can get kids out of school in the third grade and tell them what they are going to do, maybe train them for weightlifting or gymnastics for the olympics, and that we could tell them, "you are going to be a doctor." i am getting calls, on my radio program telling me, "i am intern," or "i am a doctor." all of the doctors are saying the same thing. get out. if this thing comes, no reason to be a doctor. >> canadians have an escape valve. they come here. >> what they're talking about is a perfectly

geoff canada is my personal hero. i don't believe it. don't believe it. >> what do you think they all have in common? >> i think what i have seen in the number of people we got to profile is they took what was a job and they ran with that and made it passion and then they made it a commitment. almost like a calling. it's so much more than a job. it is this obsessive calling to serve something greater than themselves. to decide that the children who they interact with, the people that they serve, are going to be as dear to them as their own flesh and blood. truly. not even sort of metaphorically, but truly, literally as same to them as their own actual children. you saw that yesterday with dr. perry, la compton rocke. the patients mean as much to them as their own family members do. i think, for me, it was in order to have success in the community as a whole, we have to kind of treat each other like that. we're all in the same boat. one portion of the community cannot fail and the rest of us are fine. it just won't work. >> can the succes

because if british canada -- hoped that grau great britain would remain canada, because if it stayed on the northern bored then the united states would have to remain tied to france for protection and this french were hoping that the united states would be a client state, for them to -- into the 19th century. >> host: we have -- hopefully will be a short question, because we have one minute in the first hour, this is a call from joseph in martinez, california, hello, joseph. >> caller: hello, thanks for taking my question. doctor, you mentioned the conway cabal and dis satisfaction with washington as commander and this is rather specific and do you have information about james lavell of boston's involvement with the dissatisfaction and it's not james lavell the astronaut. >> guest: no, i know. yeah. i -- i always pronounced it james "love-el" and he was a congressman from boston and he was dissatisfied with washington and he, like a great many new englanders thought that horatio gates was the answer and preferable and, in fact, he wrote a letter in which he said he hoped gates would

this is canada -- this is not kaiser permanente an.t appreciate it. ím5hpì(lc@&c+ glenn: america, you'll be happy to know our apology andtoutour s continuing. çhillary clinton was blaming te u.s. for global warming. >> we have made mistakes in the united states, and we, along with other developed countries, have contributed most significantly doç the problems that we face with climate change. we are hoping that a great country like india will not make the same mistakes. glenn: yeah, except i am thinking in india will make the same mistakes. they are not rejecting -- they are rejected ministrations call for lower admissions -- emissions because they like to bring people out of poverty -- they are rejecting the administration's call. many do not even have electricity. former ambassador john bolton is here, author of a book. my gosh, john. the apology tour just continues. i cannot take it. all corners of the globe, and i know the club does not have corners. i am tired of the apologies -- i know the globe does not have corners. what count

when we realize that in canada there are whole companies that have sprouted up in canada. just think of them as travel agencies that merged with health care services. they realize that the canadians, there is a long -- rule in canada that prohibits person from jumping in line. if you have a pad knee, you're going to wait, it's against the law to move ahead of the line. if you hurt your hip, 196-day wait. but there are people in canada that can't wait. they can't wait for a hip, they can't wait for a knee, they certainly can't wait for heart surgery, and many do. and so some of the companies, canada, have a policy that's set up as part of their employment policy. when they recruit some of their employees, the package will be here's your salary package, retirement plan, by the way we have this plan for you if you need heart surgery we'll package this thing up and we'll fly you down to houston for heart surgery or ann arbor or the mayo clinic. this happens on a regular basis. the travel agencies that merge with the health care providing agencies provide the turn key operation

canada talks about wait times. those goals from the time you're actually with that specialists, and they have determined you need surgery, those wait times do not include the times to get into the specialist, at the time to get the diagnostic imaging, the blood tests, and all of those same types of things -- to get into the specialists, diagnostic imaging. neil: you use your own money. then what? >> i came to the united states. i came down the first time to justin dyck knows reinvests they said -- i came down just in time. back at went to canada, and i was not able to see somebody, and within three weeks, and i had to return to the united states and have my surgery, and it was a success. neil: and the surgery, what did they do? >> through surgery, i had a tumor removed, and from there, my vision returned within 10 days. i still have some on going into a grin issues -- and a grin issues -- endocrin shoes. i feel very thankful that i was able to get to the united states -- endocrin issues. neil: if you were not able

this might be a big shock to you but the truth is germany, france, italy, spain the u.k., canada, all have the same system that we use for the american department of veterans affairs. that is working. brenda: hold on a minute. i'm not so sure that it would surprise us. most of the countries he named are socialist countries much >> that's right and they have had had compact with the people and sacrifice they have made is for legitimate growth, legitimate entrepreneurship and now you are turning what could be a privilege into an obligation. you are forcing employers to behave in a way to bend to the government and forcing individuals to sign on for healthcare whether they want it or not and that is influencing beha behavior beyond anything and makes government influence greater it society. brenda: pat, you don't really have a problem with this mandated healthcare, do you? >> well, one of the big issues we have in this country is we pay too much and get too little. we pay more for healthcare as a percentage of g.d.p. and our out co comes stink. if you look at the data the larger the prop

and canada is 25% higher than it is in the united states. and the top two medicines that we use for chemotherapy for advanced stage bowling cancer are banned in canada now because of health and safety concerns but they are too expensive. they make patients receive the medication we stop using 10 years ago. as a result if you get colon cancer in canada you have a 41% chance of dying if you get in the united states to have a 32% chance. the next time you're talking to somebody like your children and their in favor of health insurance tell them if mom got cancer would you like third to have to wait eight weeks to get radiation because there is not enough machines are doctors to go around? because that is a price of one obama is doing. it is not that you will never catch up with a number of doctors because the cost control he is improving -- imposing will reduce doctors and it will create longer and longer delays. four years ago there was only a four week wait last year it went at eight weeks and it is getting worse and worse because the number

and he kept saying, we don't want canada, we don't want canada, we don't want canada this, they're long lines and all these things -- their long lines and all these things around the canadian system and i asked him if he knew how many countries in the world, how many industrialized nations, had national health insurance system and he said, all of them except the united states, how many of them have universal coverage? all of them except the united states. how many have a blend of public and private, where you have a basic level of coverage provided by the government but people can buy private insurance to enhance their position? and he said, well, all of them except canada. and i said, so you've chosen the one country in the world that is an outliar and used that to undermine the arguments for an american plan when we haven't copied anything from canada in this country that i know of except hockey? and he really didn't have a response to that, but the point is, you'll hear a lot of these myths thrown out and they really don't relate to what we're doing or trying to do which is to create

i thought it was a religion in canada. >> it is. >> jimmy: yeah. you just don't practice that.d. >> will: yeah, i saw them like a month ago. >> jimmy: they are like a huge, gigantic band. they're like, probably, the u2 of canada. they're gigantic, right? >> you love the tragically hip? >> jimmy: i do, i like them. i don't love them, but i like them. but they're very canadian. >> very. >> jimmy: yeah, like in canada, they're like -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: you know every song. what's their most famous song? >> will: "blow at high dough." >> jimmy: "blow at high dough." >> will: yeah, it's a great song. >> jimmy: i don't even understand that. [ laughter ] what does it mean? >> will: that's like an old classic. i mean -- what's the segment about? tragically hip here, i mean, come on. >> jimmy: yeah, we're going to bring them out. ladies and gentlemen -- no, i'm kidding. [ laughter ] >> can you imagine? >> will: i would love that. >> jimmy: that would be cool, right? yeah. >> will: they're a great band. >> jimmy: it's not going to happen. hey, "entourage," six seasons. smash hit. it's b

she spent three years waiting for a diagnosis in canada for chronic back pain and another nine months waiting for surgery. she hopes to prevent a similar situation for her son who might have the exact same conditions. the canadian system just kept you waiting. what happened? >> after getting diagnosed with the condition i have requiring back surgery, it took me three years to get surgery. neil: why did it take so long? >> to get an initial appointment with the first surgeon to talk about the potential surgery -- that took nine months. neil: you said you had bad back pain. what did they tell you? >> they said i had a vertebrate that was slipping over my telephone. i was getting shooting pains down the size of my legs. -- slipping over my pelvic bone. i no longer had the strength to keep myself upright. i started using canes and walkers, overusing pain medication to deal with all of the pain. i even ended up wearing diapers because the nerve that told me when my bladder was full was being pinched. neil: throughout this, clearly, your situation was worsening. what the doctors say? >> i w

there was a patient in canada, had severe knee pain. such severe knee pain that he required narcotics. went to see his family doctor, the gate keeper to the health system up there. the doctor told him that he's just going to treat him with some physical therapy and give him nar cot. this went on for a year. over a year. before he could get in to see an orthopedic surgeon. took him over a year to get on the list to see an orthopedic surgeon for the evaluation of this severe knee pain. when he finally got to see the orthopedic surgeon, after a year, of course here in this country if a family doctor wants to get a patient to the orthopedic surgeon, we can do it in a matter of days or certainly weeks if our orthopedist is busy. but took him over a year to see one that was mandated, the orthopedic surgeon was mandated by the government. that he to see this particular one. and it took him over a year to see him. the orthopedic surgeon finally did some x-rays on him and told the patient, yes, you've got such and such a condition in your knee a

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i was raised in canada, and most canadians don't like it.'re from great britain or france or canada, there's a reason that all the people from these countries that have free medical care are flocking to the united states. >> right, and it's not tree when you take into account the tax burden. we show that in the video. it's ridiculous. most americans didn't believe it when they saw it. sean: you have a woman who says her mom wait add year for treatment, ended up getting both legs amputated. the incessant waiting, the inferior care. you don't even hardly get to see a doctor. they're paying higher taxes on just about everything for a very poor system. >> what this video does is anybody can read dick morris' book to read the facts and statistics, but this video actually shows americans the firsthand experience which i don't think they can get anywhere else. sean: good work. a very important programming note for this thursday. we're going to be bringing you a look inside the obama universal health care plan, it's a universal nightmare, and we loo

i don't want to be canada. i would move to canada. i would go up to canada with all the hollywood stars who said they were going to move but strangely didn't. that's a different story. america is the place where the people run the show. that's what makes us great. when we're run by the government we're anything but the land of the free. when are we are going to be the home of the brave? besides, if we become like canada, or, you know, the e.u. where will all the canadian citizens come when they need that difficult or elusive medical treatment they can't get in their own crappy country? i'm just saying. let's go to michael cannon, the director of health policy studies at the cato institute. he's with us here. how are you, sir? >> good, glenn. glenn: good to see you. i want to show this chart. bring up the chart, please. show this chart, and this is how simple this is going to be. this is the new schematic of the healthcare plan. where are we? >> this is put together by republican staffers on the hill regarding the house bill. glenn: th

neil: oh, canada.run health care in this country, he might want to take a look at what canada has to offer -- you might want to take a look at that. >> i was told to grab a number. 770. so between two and 10? a guy with a broken clavicle, it took him five hours. they could not do anything. they told him to go see an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow. it is not enough money year? >> if you have cash, you can go to the doctor -- it is not enough money here. neil: the commentator went undercover to shoot all of this video, and he joins me right now. what did you come away thinking, stephen? what did you learn? >> i was raised in canada, and i hear all the politicians and celebrities using this as a prototype for the united states and decided to go there to show americans what it is like. the waits are long, three years to get a family doctor. americans can judge for themselves when they watch it. neil: the waiting part, how bad is that? what procedures or machines take them on this time? >> i do not know as far

they could perhaps hold canada. they could perhaps hold everything west of the appalachian mountains. they could hold those up for southern colonies, virginia, the two carolinas and georgia. they already held florida, which they had acquired in the french and indian war, and they held several sugar islands in the caribbean. so they would not only have a large american empire, but their american empire would surround the united states. and the united states might consist of no more than nine or 10 states. in fact, if it was about small and that vulnerable and at hand in, the chances of the united states remaining an independent country for very long were slim, to say the least. so the british turned toward conquering the south in 1778. it's at that point that they really began to raise an arm provincial units, or units composed of loyalists. the idea, in fact, was at the british regulars would come in and conquer the continental army, flush the continental army out of the southern states with the help of the loyalist

from canada and a show that i have recently become completely obsessed with, it's called "trailer park these men who live in a trailer park. their names are ricky, julian and bubbles. the trailer park boys are here. later on, this is their seventh album called "hombre lobo". a great band from los angeles. eels are here to perform. next week, seth rogen, leslie mann, jonah hill, anne heche, ryan scheck her, music from parachute and diane birch. join us then. and also i want to say, happy birthday to little -- our miniature co-executive producer jason schrift who is 40 years old. [ cheers and applause ] i have to say, jason, you don't look a day over 9 years old. all right. as a young farm boy in iowa, our first guest dreamed of stardom. since then he's been married more than 75 times, a new hollywood record. if you want to see him live and possibly become bride number 76, visit the laugh factory here in los angeles every thursday night and see him on the comedy central roast of joan rivers sunday, august 9. please say hello to tom arnold. [ cheers and applause ] >> hey. >> tom -- >> ver

there are companies that have sprouted up in canada that turn key these things. sometimes within the health insurance plan that's part of the employment that says we'll opt you out of the country to get you fast health care services to the united states. and sometimes it's someone in canada who can't wait in line to get the service and so there are companies there like tour companies, travel agencies, travel/health care agencies that put together the package. let's just say that you are in quebec, and you want to go to let's say the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota, to get a hip replacement, and the hip rae replacement line in canada is long. the travel/health care agency in canada that's sprouted up because of entrepreneurs, you can go contact them and they'll set that up and say let me see. you arrive at the airport, here in quebec, at this time and this is your flight number and ticket. and you can fly down to the mayo clinic. here's the hotel that you can go check into this hotel. you'll arrive at this time. transportation to the hotel is a shuttle bus fro

in france, in germany, britain, and yes, even in canada. we only do better in public satisfaction than countries like s slovakia, hungary and greece. the fact that we pay more per capita than any other nation, yet in many key areas of health, mortality and obesity, we do worse than other countries. let's hear more from senator mcconnell. >> i have a friend in florida who called up and said he lost a friend in canada because they said he was too old for a certain procedure, and he didn't have the money or the ability to get to the united states for quality health care. i don't think that's the direction the american people want us to go, david. >> i find it very hard to believe that the republican leader of the senate is deciding major national policy based on anecdotes from a friend of a friend. health care in canada called mcconnell's claim absolutely nonsense, quote, unquote. and the point that health care is going to become exactly like canada's if this legislature passes is also untrue. health care is a complicated problem. i don't pret

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