The Associated Press, seeking to defend Canada's government monopoly on health insurance, attempts to debunk the TV ad spotlighting a ... Canadian woman, Shona Holmes, who spoke of suffering from a brain tumor and declared she would "be dead" had she relied on her [Canadian healthcare].
According to the Mayo Clinic, which operated on her, Holmes's life wasn't in much danger ... just her vision.
So Holmes probably could have survived the Canadian wait and been none the worse for wear--well, except for the minor inconvenience of being blind! America's health-care system saved a Canadian woman's vision. A Canadian-style system south of the border could turn all of North America into the land of the blind.
Hmm. Don’t I recall something about “in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king?”
Why does that phrase strike me as a metaphor for Obamacare?
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