{"id":7560,"date":"2010-02-22T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7560"},"modified":"2010-02-22T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:19:11","slug":"danny-williams-let-them-eat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/danny-williams-let-them-eat-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Williams: let them eat cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian health care is good enough for average Canadian citizens, but the political elite demand something better; something that can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/story\/2010\/02\/22\/nl-williams-ntv-220210.html?ref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">only be found in the US<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Danny Williams, the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has broken his silence on his decision to undergo heart surgery in the U.S., and the controversy it caused.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who is recovering at his condo in Sarasota, Fla., said people shouldn&#8217;t take his decision to seek medical help outside the country as a reflection on health care in Newfoundland and Labrador. He said he has the &#8220;utmost confidence&#8221; in the province&#8217;s health-care system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a bum rap \u2026 for someone to try to turn around and say, &#8216;You know, Williams doesn&#8217;t have confidence in his own health-care system because he had to leave the province.&#8217; Well, I had to leave the province because it was recommended to me by my own doctors that for this particular type of surgery I should leave the province.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So sorry you <em>had<\/em> to leave the province, Danny; and thanks for the vote of confidence in Canada\u2019s health care system for everyone but you.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Apparently the treatment Williams received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/02\/23\/williams-surgery023.html?ref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">is available in Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian health care is good enough for average Canadian citizens, but the political elite demand something better; something that can only be found in the US: Danny Williams, the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has broken his silence on his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/danny-williams-let-them-eat-cake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}