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This afternoon, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) is scheduled to be sworn in, thereby becoming the 41st Republican in the U.S. Senate and the one vote the Republicans need to block the current version of Health Care Reform (and, potentially, other pieces of the President’s legislative program). Congratulations, Senator Brown!

But there’s an even bigger story. On Monday, Danny Williams, the far-left Premier of the Canadian Province of Labrador and Newfoundland, slipped across the US/Canada border and headed to an “undisclosed location” (rumored to be the Cleveland Clinic) for life saving heart surgery that he could not get for 182 days under Canada’s socialized health care system (a system Mr. Williams strongly supports and even helped architect). Premier Williams joins 41,000 other Canadians who come to the U.S. each year for health care.

Welcome, Premier Williams! I’m glad that the worlds’s greatest health care system, supported by the world’s greatest free market economy could help save your life. But I do have two questions for you:

(1) If it’s ok for YOU to receive this life saving surgery when you need it, why isn’t it ok for less affluent Canadians to receive the same life saving treatment in the same urgent time frame when they need it? The basic fact that most advocates of government controlled health care fail to address is that poorest resident of the U.S., citizen or not, documented or not,  insured or not, would have access to life saving heart surgery if they needed it…and they wouldn’t have to wait 182 days. So WHO is the real “liberal”…really?

(2) Once government takes over the U.S. health care system and rebuilds it in the image and likeness of Canada, where will you and the members of your family go when you urgently need medical care? And even more importantly, where will we go??????????????