Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Where is Michael J. Fox getting his health treatment?

American Spectator with an article titled Who will tell Michael J. Fox he needs to die? The article addresses the liberal view of "Quality of Life" issues.

As I read through this, it did occur to me to wonder where is Michael J. Fox, Canadian, getting treatment for Parkinson's disease?

For instance, Fox is on many new and veeeerrrrrry expensive drugs to help with his Parkinson's symptoms. Is the Canadian health care system shelling out for those? I highly doubt it. In fact, if it weren't for the profit motivation for those private enterprise, big pharma companies, he wouldn't have those drugs at all.

Second, would any non rich, ordinary Canadians be able to receive the treatments Fox receives?

Fox's own Parkinson's Foundation is housed in New York (see the foundation's 990 here). In fact, I couldn't find one grant made by the foundation to a non American institution. Seems odd that if the Canadian system was so wonderful, the foundation might have the resources to throw a few bones to Canadian research.

Once again, I'm not the smartest guy in the world but it occurs to me that wherever Fox gets his treatment and where he's getting his research done says something about the health care debate.

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