AT: All that strutting, all those jumping jack flashes, all those drugs, all that loud music finally took its toll on 75-year-old Mick Jagger’s heart. It needed a new valve. And so the British-born, British-raised Jagger had his valve replacement surgery performed…no! no! no!…not in Britain, home to socialized free medicine for all, but right here in the good ol’ USA. In New York City. Yes, New York, where he purchased an expensive home nearly three years ago for the American Ballet Theater dancer who is the mother of his eighth child when they demanded gimme shelter, is part of America, no matter what its inhabitants — and the rest of the country — think.
The U.S.’s medical system seems to be treating him very well.’
Well, good. But why did he choose the USA for his medical care instead of England? While I’m not privy to such intimate decisions, perhaps it has something to do with Jagger joining other wealthy celebrities and business people as a tax exile years ago. After all, before he rocked, he studied…accounting (yes, really — at the London School of Economics). He worked hard, made money, and the British socialist government initially took 90% of it. more
But, but, but, Socialism is a green good Idea !
This time we will get it right.
At 75, it may well be an issue of treating him in GB at all, or having to play russian roulette with a too-long wait for the procedure.
No one with plenty of money and common sense relies on the British system for serious medical care. They go elsewhere.
Same is mostly true for Canada as well, as the number of Canadians in our northern hospitals attests.
Who gives a flying fuck what he does?
Anonymous above said: “Same is mostly true for Canada as well, as the number of Canadians in our northern hospitals attests.”
The woman I met with the cadaver eyes said Canada had the best health care IN THE WORLD! I replied: “Is that why Canadians come to America for some of their health needs like hip and knee replacements?” She got up and left in a huff. I nicknamed her “dead eyes.”
If Keith Richards outlives Mick Jagger, I’ll eat my next placenta. Wait, I’m over 50. Never mind.
Mike – – most likely his billion fans.
Hey Mick, you’re 75 and the rest of the band is also over 70, it’s time to retire and give it up. You don’t need the money anymore and besides all you would have left might be the Geriatric Tour playing for old baby boomers at Indian Casino’s. I can see it now, live at the CDA Casino and Northern Quest Casino (Kalispell tribe) for one night only it’s The Rolling Stones. I think I’ll pass, the tickets would still be overpriced and maybe you could see Keith Richards die while performing if all the drugs haven’t preserved him forever.
I don’t blame him for coming to America for the surgery, Britain would have Let it Bleed. He was Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place. At least now he no longer has A Heart of Stone.
Look, socialism didn’t work anywhere else but it would work in USA because, um, because.
You’re racist!!!
Also, Trump approval pops to 53%!: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_apr09
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Have you ever been to a “rock” concert by one of these bands ? The Rolling Stones..Fleetwood Mac…Styx…. It’s like go to a PTA meeting, with guitars.
Just a note on Canadian Health Care. I suspect there is a problem in northern Canada in that it’s tough to maintain state of the art facilities in an area larger then most countries with few large or even medium large cities. There are a lot of villages and in order to get cardiac treatment (or other high tech/skill treatments) you have to be flown to one and since every other little town or village is doing the same thing you land on a waiting list. Note though that if it’s critical and space available they’ll be flown to a facility down south and right into treatment. It’s also difficult to find doctors, skilled nurses and others who want to work up north. I imagine Alaska has the same problem.
Canada actually has a pretty symbiotic relationship with the States as it comes to health care. Regarding the comment by @GoldenFox about hip and knee replacements going south he’s quite right to the benefit of all parties.
If you’re a Canuck who needs a new hip and does not have mobility problems yet and the discomfort can be controlled by pain meds you would get on a list and maybe told it will be four months before you get the procedure. If you’re well off you go to your doc and get the name of a good hospital (or a referral to a doc he knows) and you call to make an appointment. Chances are you’ll get an appointment in few days. You fly down, see the specialist the same day and get scheduled for surgery the next. You have your surgery and do three or four days of therapy, write a check to the hospital/doctor and hop on a plane back and submit the bill to your provincial government. They will pay you what they would have paid to a Canadian hospital for the same procedure. I’m not sure but its possible the out of pocket may be claimed as a health expense on that persons federal income tax. Everybody wins in these:
Patient gets their new knee in a week and reimbursed for a large part of their cost;
Hospital/doctor get paid their full bolt, no bargaining with insurance companies or third party payers which usually resulted in a greatly reduced bill;
Everyone on the hip replacement list moves up one.
There’s no doubt the Canadian system is not a bright, shining example of healthcare as it does have problems (it’s very expensive but in ways you can’t really see and it’s very slow in accepting more private processing) but we are working on them but it’s not a smoking hole in the ground as some would have you believe. I’ve got some pretty dodgy heart problems and a lot of contact with the system and for the most part am highly satisfied.
Didn’t Margaret Thatcher eliminate that insane 90% tax rate? It sounds like they moved to the Netherlands where they effectively pay no tax at all (1.5% doesn’t really count) but that was a long time ago.
I am hoping that I make it to 75… Needing a heart valve replacement may be the least of my worries!
YOU GO MICK
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
As I understand it, there is a private option in the British healthcare system (for those who can afford it of course).But he still chose the good old U.S.A.
someone said the at their advanced ages the Stone’s band doctor should be Kevorkian.
“Ann T.”
Good one. You crack me up.
Just think. If Hillary were running the Brit system, those old blind people would be dead instead of blind. More money and power to the gummint that way.
God Bless America!
And we should all (including Mr. Jagger) thank God for America.
If the Demonrats have their way, America will no longer exist – for Americans, for illegal-alien invading rat-people, or for multi-millionaire EuroTrash who require modern medical attention.
izlamo delenda est …
Peoplenin britain think they have the best health care – because its free.
Remind these folks: “you get what you pay for.”
Don’t friends and family of the Royal Court get special Health Insurance, like our members of Congress do?
“You Can Always Get What You Want”
…if you’re a rich Brit in America, that is.