I forget.. When was Grassley made king, lord & master of the US

[SoCalDem]

and his little buddy Max, as his assistant?

This is enraging.. TWO little toadies are somehow getting to decide for ALL of us..

Between them, they garnered 1,372,293 votes, which is 35% of the combined state populations (3,969,995)..

There are cities with more people than those two states' combined populations.

[glarius]

1. He's lying about the Canadian health care system!

Over and over I hear the Republicans going on about the "terrible system in Canada" and how we are practically dying in the streets for lack of care. This is ridiculous! Here is a post I made in answer to a request a couple of years ago:

The Truth about health care in Canada (by request)

I received a message in my inbox asking me to do a post about the state of health care in Canada.....Here's is what I can tell you:
This is a big country, and you can find people to say just about anything with regards to just about everything...So you will find people who (for whatever reason) will say that our health care system is causing people to die in the streets for lack of care...This is ludicrous...I have heard or read things said by people advocating for privatization of our health care system, that
are completely false..I can tell you that in my family, my husband had care from one of the top heart specialists in the world (he's in Toronto), and successful and timely cataract surgery....We do have to wait for elective surgery, but I've never heard of anyone dying for needed surgery...You already know about our drugs and the vast difference in prices here and in your country...I have heard American politicians on TV say things in order to scare the American public....They say we don't have a choice in the doctor we want...FALSE...We choose our own....I myself have changed doctors in the past several years...And all Canadians have access to all specialists, treatments, and surgery.....They say the Government runs health care and makes all the decisions...Again FALSE....The doctors and hospitals run things and send the bills to the government for payment...Period...The most recent poll I know of on the subject shows that (I forget the exact amount) somewhere between 90% to 95% of Canadians want to keep our present system.....We aren't perfect and can certainly be improved, and the government has recently done a study and as a result is putting more money into the system, but I honestly wish the good people of your country would have the benefit of a similar system....By the way, during the last few days I saw in the news the case of the American man who accidentally shot himself in the head with a nail gun...They said he has no insurance and is stuck with a bill of $100,000....That is insane.....Anyway, I've gone on long enough about
this....Don't let anyone convince you Canadians want to go to privatization....It's just not true.....Good luck...

P.S...In a big country like this, there are bound to occasionally be people who slip through the cracks for some reason or other...So I'm sure there will be some who will have a story to tell of a failure...