Shona Holmes' TV commercial

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For the umpteenth time, I viewed Canadian Shona Holmes' alarmist anti-U.S. healthcare plan TV commercial and finally decided to check it out.  I found that typical of GOP-backed commercials, this one is chock-full of errors.  According to FactCheck.Org's "Dying on a Wait List?" (and other sites) in 2009, when the commercial was first shown, she had a cyst, not a tumor, and she was in NO danger of dying!  Under the Canadian healthcare system, she had appointments to have the problem taken care of, but she didn't want to wait that "long" and instead made a personal decision to come to the U.S. for treatment.  Afterwards, she started bashing the Canadian system and attempting to warn U.S. citizens against setting up a Canadian-style health system here.
According to Professor Larry Moran, "... To summarize, we have a patient with a non-life-threatening brain cyst who may or may not have had to wait a long time for treatment in Canada but choose to go to an American clinic where she was operated on after about a month. This patient is sufficiently opposed to Canada's health care system that she has collaborated with a right-wing group to sue the Government of Ontario for allegedly violating her rights. ..."
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