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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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Aug. 11, 2009

FactCheck really debunks another nutcake right-wing false propaganda piece. The healthcare debate has really shown up nutcake neocons for what they really are: racist, scared, lying, distorting, hate mongering, fear mongering, felonious acting, name calling anti-Americans who, although aware of the real facts, choose to scream health industry propaganda shutting up hones,t reasoned debate. Good-bye democracy.

Remember the old advertising adage? "No one ever went broke underestimating the American people."

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