RAND PAUL, WHO CALLS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE 'SLAVERY,' WILL HAVE SURGERY IN CANADA BUT INSISTS HOSPITAL IS PRIVATE
Republican Rand Paul is one of the most vocal critics of universal health care in Congress, once equating it to “slavery.” Now the Kentucky senator has opted to have surgery at a private hospital in Canada, a nation of socialized medicine, rather than in the United States.
Paul is scheduled to have an outpatient operation at the Shouldice Hernia Hospital in Ontario later this month, according to court documents in a civil lawsuit Paul launched against his neighbor Rene Boucher.
According to the court filing, the hernia operation is related to a 2017 attack in which Boucher assaulted Paul while the senator was mowing the lawn at his Kentucky home. The incident left the lawmaker with six broken ribs and a bruised lung.
Boucher pleaded guilty to the assault and was sentenced to 30 days in prison. Federal prosecutors said the neighbor had “had enough” after Paul put a pile of brush close to his property line. Boucher, 58, ran and tackled the senator to the ground.
Paul will have the surgery during the week of January 21. Court documents estimated that the procedure would cost somewhere between $5,000 and $8,000. The hospital markets itself as “the global leader in non-mesh hernia repair.”
Paul is scheduled to have an outpatient operation at the Shouldice Hernia Hospital in Ontario later this month, according to court documents in a civil lawsuit Paul launched against his neighbor Rene Boucher.
According to the court filing, the hernia operation is related to a 2017 attack in which Boucher assaulted Paul while the senator was mowing the lawn at his Kentucky home. The incident left the lawmaker with six broken ribs and a bruised lung.
Boucher pleaded guilty to the assault and was sentenced to 30 days in prison. Federal prosecutors said the neighbor had “had enough” after Paul put a pile of brush close to his property line. Boucher, 58, ran and tackled the senator to the ground.
Paul will have the surgery during the week of January 21. Court documents estimated that the procedure would cost somewhere between $5,000 and $8,000. The hospital markets itself as “the global leader in non-mesh hernia repair.”
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