"The Koch brothers lie about Canadian healthcare" by Ian at the Real Story

[applegrove]

The Koch brothers lie about Canadian healthcare

by Ian at the Real Story

http://therealstory.ca/2012-09-04/us-politics/the-koch-brothers-lie-about-canadian-healthcare

"SNIP..........................................

The Koch brothers are spending $6million on a new anti-Obama ad; an ad featuring a Canadian woman from Ontario.

Shona Holmes claims our medicare system blocked her from getting the immediate treatment she needed to prevent her from dying from a brain tumour. She mortgaged her home to buy life saving treatment at a Mayo Clinic in the US.

Except she never had a brain tumour. She had a benign cyst on her pituitary gland. Very serious, but not life threatening and treatable in the time period planned in Ontario.

I completely get the fear one goes through when you get told you have a tumour on or near the brain. I do have a brain tumour and have come close to dying more than once.

..........................................SNIP"

[riverwalker]

1. that ad is showing all day in Minnesota

was wondering what the back story was.

[applegrove]

2. Pass it on.

[Blue Idaho]

3. So when was the last time you got "on demand" care in the American health care system?

When was the last time you told a Doctor exactly what treatment you wanted and the timeframe that treatment should be delivered? When was the last time you told a health insurance company what deductible you would allow yourself to be charged for a procedure and which procedures you would choose to undergo for your given medical condition?

Yeah, that totally happens...

[area51]

10. +1

Every year, 100,000 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.

This is not only a moral issue, but a national security issue that we're so vulnerable given that our health care delivery system is so fragmented, expensive and dysfunctional.

We need single-payer health care, not the GingrichCare that we got.

"Employer-based health insurance has always been a bad idea. Your life should not depend on who you work for." -- T. McKeon

[font face="times"]"Any proposal that sticks with our current dependence on for-profit private insurers ... will not be sustainable. And the new law will not get us to universal coverage ...." -- T.R. Reid, The Healing of America[/font]

"Despite the present hyperbole by its supporters, this latest effort will end up as just another failed reform effort littering the landscape of the last century." --John Geyman, M.D., Hijacked! The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform

[Blue Idaho]

11. Sobering thoughts on the most expensive health care system in the world.

Not the best, just the most expensive.

[glinda]

4. K & R n/t

[SoapBox]

5. Not this tired old story?

Is this the same stupid person that was ponied out months ago?

And was all over telling her sad, sad story?

And then started gettting called out over the facts? ...and disappearing?

What a pile of bullshit.

Time to get this story out and about.

[applegrove]

6. She may have been the lady in the ad years ago. That person also had a benign tumour.

[subterranean]

9. Yes, it is the same person they used during the health care reform debate.

Her story has been discredited, but even if it she was telling the truth, it's irrelevant because Obamacare is nothing like Canadian health care.

[EdwardKingSolomon]

7. It should only be news when they tell the truth

It should only be news when they tell the truth

[Kurovski]

8. Then we would never have known who they were.

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