badbabysitter
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I dont know if anyone remembers her, but back in 2009 she was trotted out by the American conservative movement to show the evils of Canadian healthcare
now the Koch brothers are trotting her forth again in an anti-Obama ad
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...nadian-to-charlotte-to-attack-health-law.html
on the surface this looks like a horrible story... woman with a life threatening cancer forced to wait by an uncaring Canadian system so long that she had to go the US to get the treatment to save her life
this would be a hugely condemning story, and a grand indictment on the failure of the Canadian healthcare
except for one thing... it's all bullshit
her terminal cancer truned out to be a benign cyst
her wait time was the same as anyone else with this form of cyst
she chose to go the US
she then billed us Canucks for her treatment
she only got pissy when we told her the taxpayer wasnt going to pay for her because she opted out of universal healthcare... so she's suing the government to pay her bills instead
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2009/07/31/medicare-ad-exaggeration523.html
you stay classy Koch brothers
now the Koch brothers are trotting her forth again in an anti-Obama ad
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...nadian-to-charlotte-to-attack-health-law.html
on the surface this looks like a horrible story... woman with a life threatening cancer forced to wait by an uncaring Canadian system so long that she had to go the US to get the treatment to save her life
this would be a hugely condemning story, and a grand indictment on the failure of the Canadian healthcare
except for one thing... it's all bullshit
her terminal cancer truned out to be a benign cyst
her wait time was the same as anyone else with this form of cyst
she chose to go the US
she then billed us Canucks for her treatment
she only got pissy when we told her the taxpayer wasnt going to pay for her because she opted out of universal healthcare... so she's suing the government to pay her bills instead
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2009/07/31/medicare-ad-exaggeration523.html
you stay classy Koch brothers
