What Would Trudeau Do if we Chartered a Bus to Send All These Americans Kickstarting Cancer Bills to Canada?

“People bitch about their healthcare in every country.” That’s true, until they come to America and realize how lucky they have it. I’m reading America’s Bitter Pill right now by Steven Brill. It’s maddening. Perhaps the most maddening book I’ve read in some time. And, sir, mind you, I read a great many maddening books, almost exclusively, so my qualifier here matters.

I get livid when Liberal friends talk about Hillary preserving Obamacare as if we’re all in mad agreement that the Affordable Care Act addressed even a fraction of the fuckery of our for-profit healthcare system. Where do you even get off defending for-profit hospitals? Because what I think is that rich Liberal people with good health insurance don’t seem very upset that mandatory private insurance is a terrible system for the poor. They nod their head when Hillary Clinton applauds that more people have shitty insurance now than before, allowing them to switch off their morality to switch on Netflix, consoling themselves that their candidate tried her best and what can be done.

But hear this: care shouldn’t be affordable, it should recognized as a universal human right.

Once we accept that premise, we no longer allow ourselves to be consoled. We gather our strength and we fight against the batshit that would impinge on our rights. That’s what we’ve always done. That’s what Americans do. That’s who we are.

Think harder, you lazy Liberals.

So, recognizing this, what would mon bae Justin Trudeau do if we started sending busloads of America’s under-insured to Canada in protest of our corrupted system? What would he think about the arrival medical refugees who need temporary shelter from America’s profiteering hospitals? Do you see where I’m going with this?

I ask these questions not because I believe this is an effective long-term solution to our crisis. But if you’re even mildly connected to anyone, you often see people starting gofundme.com rallies to raise money for medical treatment. Or to pay for their kids’ dental care. The costs of these things, even with insurance, outstrips what many working people can afford to pay and so they reach out to their networks for help. This is what we would call a privatized solution to a public problem. It’s a fucking nightmare. It has to end.

Therefore, I propose that we start thinking up ways to send our sick to Canada for help. I hope to inspire a grand political spectacle. I hope Trudeau sees the need for such a spectacle. I hope people in England see what we’re doing and protest the shit out of Pigfucker Cameron and save the NHS. Oh, America, we can’t let an inch of this political opportunity go.

Let me get real here: I know people who have tried to commit suicide because they’ll never escape their medical bills. This madness can go on no further.

Brill deconstructs actual treatment costs billed to patients during hospital stays. For the diagnosis of cancer and the first dosage of chemotherapy, one man was billed $83,900 — after insurance. His bill totaled 8 pages with 344 itemized charges.

One what planet is that defensible? How is that coverage?

Justin Trudeau, help us! You’re our only hope.