Dying on a Wait List?

Perhaps the most emotional of the health care ads we’ve seen in recent months is the one featuring Canadian Shona Holmes, who warns of the dangers of a government-run health care system. Holmes tells viewers: "I survived a brain tumor. But if I’d relied on my government, I’d be dead. … As my brain tumor got worse, my government health care system told me I had to wait six months to see a specialist. In six months, I would have died.” Full Story »

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Fred Gatlin
3.8
by Fred Gatlin - Aug. 11, 2009

The key to this article is that the ad about Shona Holmes is from Americans for Prosperity. If you look that up Americans for Prosperity and Wikipedia, it will make more sense.

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