It's a big enough surprise that Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams actually needs heart surgery, being a healthy-looking, hockey-playing specimen and so on. But the bigger surprise to some is that he's already left to have the job done in the US.
What does this say about our Canadian health care system? Probably not much. Danny Williams is an immensely wealthy man and I believe many Canadians in his circumstances would do the same thing.
I have a hunch that Danny is going someplace where he knows the surgeon, possibly an ex-patriate Newfoundlander.
UPDATE: The story goes viral. Instapundit Glenn Reynolds is linking to the same story.
More: This story has legs in the US. Drudge is linking to the National Post.
Another update from the CBC.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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