Rep. pig Rick Perry bleating falsely about the evils of "government run healthcare" [View All]

[glarius]

I just saw a videro clip of Perry ranting on about how evil Universal health care is. As a Canadian, living in a country where we have universal health care...let me say that it is not government run and the government DOES NOT come between me and my doctor or the hospital or any of the other evils he is enumerating. The government's only function is to pay the bills!
Last year the opponents of Universal health care in the U.S.A were featuring an ad the Canadian Shona Holmes did for American right wingers...based on a lie. This ad, where Shona says she would have died in Canada with a brain cancer because the government wouldn't allow her timely treatment is a bald-faced lie. In the first place she didn't have a brain tumor!. What she had (and the reason why she was given a few months to wait in Canada) was a condition called Rathke's Cleft Cyst, on her pituitary gland. "Rathke's Cleft Cysts are not true tumors or neoplasms; instead they are benign cysts." The medical community in Ontario, where she lives, knew this and scheduled other, urgent cases ahead of her for surgery....which is quite reasonable.
Not only is this TV ad being played all over the U.S.A., but she has been interviewed on Fox TV and other places, spewing her lies. I believe this ad may have had an influence on the American public, causing some to resist Universal Health Care. Shona Holmes was working with some group trying to privatize our health care in Canada, in order to make money.
I, myself have recently had great medical care (including specialists) and have paid not one cent.
If they ever tried to take our universal care away from Canadians...there would be a REVOLT!
I pray that you in the U.S.A. can get your own Universal health care!