Does Shona Holmes really think that millions of American children are better off with no medical insurance than with a system like that in Canada, no matter how much she may find it lacking?
Is she really that insensitive? Stupid? Self-absorbed?
Or does she, perhaps just like being on TV a lot?
Whatever the case, she sure comes across as a villain in all of this. A petty villain perhaps, but a villain nonetheless. Not so much to Canada and the Canadian healthcare system she's so intent on smearing with her less-than-honest tale of woe, but more so to the American public who she's hoping to condemn to the appalling status quo they presently call a healthcare system... and the rest of the world calls a joke.
Yes, yes, of course if you're wealthy and/or you're lucky enough to have an insurance policy that actually covers you when you most need it (rather than challenges your claim and/or denies you certain treatments) then you will undoubtedly get some good care. But, seriously, who wants to live in a system in which losing your job also means losing your healthcare, as so many Americans have been finding out over the past year? Nearly 50 million without any coverage whatsoever and tens of millions more with inadequate, partial and/or tentative coverage at best. You call that a modern just society?
"The Best System In The World"
Americans tend to want to believe that they are the best at everything in the world and when it comes to certain things perhaps they are, but when it comes to their healthcare system the fact is it's the laughing stock of the world.
The rest of the industrialized world long, long ago accepted the basic truth that any modern, just and civilized society unequivocally must provide two fundamental things to all of its citizens: universal primary and secondary education and universal healthcare. Yet some 60 years onward America is still attempting to claw its way into the 1950s. That is, 60 years after everyone else America is still attempting to give all of its citizens these two most basic and fundamental of human rights.
And if people like Shona Holmes have their wish they never will.
Check out Julie Mason's article here:
A reality check on a reality check: For years, Canadians have feared the American health care system; now Americans are being told to fear ours
And for another excellent article on healthcare reform in America try this quite personal recent piece by Ted Kennedy:
"The Cause of My Life"
Then there's this excellent piece by Roger J. Newell, an American who spent years living under both the "socialized" British and "free market" American systems and his take on both:
American health care: the view from expatriate who came home
Finally, check out this piece by David Sirota about how the wealthy in America (including certain Democrats who Sirota calls "Land Rover Liberals") are doing all they can to defeat universal healthcare, at least as long as it involves them having to pay even a few thousand dollars more in taxes each year from their hoard of millions and/or billions:
Is she really that insensitive? Stupid? Self-absorbed?
Or does she, perhaps just like being on TV a lot?
Whatever the case, she sure comes across as a villain in all of this. A petty villain perhaps, but a villain nonetheless. Not so much to Canada and the Canadian healthcare system she's so intent on smearing with her less-than-honest tale of woe, but more so to the American public who she's hoping to condemn to the appalling status quo they presently call a healthcare system... and the rest of the world calls a joke.
"The Best System In The World"
Americans tend to want to believe that they are the best at everything in the world and when it comes to certain things perhaps they are, but when it comes to their healthcare system the fact is it's the laughing stock of the world.
The rest of the industrialized world long, long ago accepted the basic truth that any modern, just and civilized society unequivocally must provide two fundamental things to all of its citizens: universal primary and secondary education and universal healthcare. Yet some 60 years onward America is still attempting to claw its way into the 1950s. That is, 60 years after everyone else America is still attempting to give all of its citizens these two most basic and fundamental of human rights.
And if people like Shona Holmes have their wish they never will.
Check out Julie Mason's article here:
A reality check on a reality check: For years, Canadians have feared the American health care system; now Americans are being told to fear ours
And for another excellent article on healthcare reform in America try this quite personal recent piece by Ted Kennedy:
"The Cause of My Life"
Then there's this excellent piece by Roger J. Newell, an American who spent years living under both the "socialized" British and "free market" American systems and his take on both:
American health care: the view from expatriate who came home
Finally, check out this piece by David Sirota about how the wealthy in America (including certain Democrats who Sirota calls "Land Rover Liberals") are doing all they can to defeat universal healthcare, at least as long as it involves them having to pay even a few thousand dollars more in taxes each year from their hoard of millions and/or billions:
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