33.7 Million Canadians are not Shona Holmes

I came across this post on a blog called Beyond the 140. I thought it would be good to hear about Canadian health care from a Canadian. You may remember the woman he mentions, Shona Holmes, as the Canadian who came to America for an operation because it was going to take too long in Canada. The Republicans have done a pretty thorough job showing her around the media circuit.

To my American friends: I sincerely hope you’re not taken in by the GOP propaganda featuring Canadian Shona Holmes trashing our system of universal healthcare. The problem is both that Ms. Holmes and her Republican masters misrepresented her condition and that the tactic itself is reprehensible. The GOP can’t produce any logical argument against a system that is entrenched in every Western society except yours, so they resort to fear-mongering and lies, claiming that one Canadian’s skewed view trumps the experiences and beliefs of the rest of us.
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