A man with two countries forced to choose the one that will take care of him.

Seattle Times by Keven Drews | Aug. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Keven Drews, a former Washington state journalist with dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship, moved to Canada when he was diagnosed with life-threatening cancer. He urges President Obama to continue his fight for a government-run insurance plan.

I SUPPORT President Obama's health-care reform.

I am a 36-year-old man who has dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. Born in Washington, I wanted to make my life there, but I was forced to move to British Columbia, Canada, after I got sick six years ago. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Living, Health
Topics: Canada, Health Care
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 24, 2009 - 6:19 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Barry Grossheim (review), Lynn Caporale (review), Chris Finnie (review), Tanya J. Maurer (review), Joshua Ortiz (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Aug 25, 2009 - 11:50 AM PDT
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 25, 2009

Drews provides his personal experience with universal health care in Canada. His experience provides a strong narrative to counter the right wing attacks upon the Canadian health care system.

Every Canadian I have talked to likes their health care system.

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Chris Finnie
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 by Chris Finnie - Aug. 25, 2009

Kind of puts a new perspective on the scare stories about rationing and lack of treatment for "terminal" patients under single-payer plans. Between Keven and professor Hawking, they seem to be thoroughly disproved.

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Barry Grossheim
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 by Barry Grossheim - Aug. 25, 2009

A good counter story to the wild tales of disastrous results of the Canadian health care system. Talk of rationed health care under the proposed reforms here are disingenuous at best since no one mentions that our health care has been rationed for years by the insurance companies.

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Lynn Caporale
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 by Lynn Caporale - Aug. 25, 2009
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Tanya J. Maurer
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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Aug. 25, 2009
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Joshua Ortiz
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by Joshua Ortiz - Apr. 5, 2010

This story is a great example of the health care problems that we have in the U.S it is a serious problem the gentleman in the story could have lost his life because health care is so expensive in the states. Great journalism.

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