Suzanne Somers: The Affordable Care Act Is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme
What will the Affordable Care Act mean for retirees?
SUZANNE SOMERS: As a writer of 24 books mostly on health and wellness and by using my celebrity to get to the best and brightest doctors, scientists and medical professionals in the alternative and integrative health-care world, I have come to the following conclusions:
First of all, let’s call affordable health care what it really is: It’s socialized medicine.
I’ve had an opportunity to watch the Canadian version of affordable health care in action with all its limitations with my Canadian husband’s family. A few years ago, I was startled to see the cover of Maclean’s, a national Canadian magazine, showing a picture of a dog on an examining table with the headline, “Your Dog Can Get Better Health Care Than You.” It went on to say that young Canadian medical students have no incentive to become doctors to humans because they can’t make any money. Instead, there is a great surge of Canadian students becoming veterinarians. That’s where the money is. A Canadian animal can have timely MRIs, surgeries and any number of tests it needs to receive quality health care.
My sister-in-law had to wait two months to get a General Practitioner. During this period she spent her days in bed vomiting continuously, unable to get any food or drink down because she couldn’t get an appointment with the doctor. When she finally did, the doctor said, “Oh you don’t need me, you need a specialist.” That took another two weeks until she got a pill that corrected the problem.
more crap http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2013/10/28/suzanne-somers-the-affordable-care-act-is-a-socialist-ponzi-scheme/
She's an Expert! 
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Just saw this on Twitter. Apparently there's 3 corrections already. Here's 2:
She IS a clueless blonde.
In a web feature titled "The Experts," the Wall Street Journal ran a column today called "The Affordable Care Act Is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme."
The author is Suzanne Somers, whom millennials might recognize from her starring role on ABC's family-oriented '90s sitcom "Step By Step."
Somers warns:
Medical care will be degraded, the costs will skyrocket, and most frightening of all, your most intimate and personal information is now up for grabs. And then there is another consideration: It’s the dark underbelly of the Affordable Care Act reminiscent of what Lenin and Churchill both said. Lenin: “Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.” Churchill: “Control your citizens’ health care and you control your citizens.”
Philip Bump and Jonathan Chait have both written takedowns noting, politely, that the piece does not provide the sort of airtight argument you might expect from the star of the first five seasons of "Three's Company."
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http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-journal-enlists-noted-health-policy-expert-suzanne-somers-to-critique-obamacare-2013-10
OMFG
The matter is FINALLY settled. The world's foremost authority on Canadian medicine has pronounced the ACA DOA.
she hawked beautiful fake diamonds on HSN. I know...I own a closet full. 
"Chrissy Snow"...and the actress who almost destroyed a hit TV show because of her egotistic demands for more $$$ because she thought she was the "centre" of the show (personally, I thought the late John Ritter MADE "Three's Company"
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"She's The Sheriff"...one of the most bog-awful excuses for a TV show I can think of.
Dr Somers, what is your prescription?
Are you afraid that the ACA, which unfortunately comes nowhere near being true "socialised medicine," will lessen the profits on the 24 books you've written?
And consider the source: The Wall Street Journal, the most ardently right-wing, pro-big business publication in the country. My wife's former boss, a bank CFO, used to read it on the shitter. No joke.
Her sister in law had to wait 2 months to get a GP? Let's read into that shall we?
She had to wait 2 months to get a GP. Yes, there are waits for getting in with a family doctor IN A FEW AREAS in the entire country. THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T SEE A DOCTOR! Her SIL must be as dumb as shit, because at any time she could've made an appointment to go to a 24-hour mediclinic or gone to the ER. For free. And in the end, she got to see a specialist in 2 weeks and got her cure. FOR FREE. Instead, she was too fucking stupid to haul herself to either a mediclinic or and ER and CHOSE....let me reiterate that...CHOSE to suffer until she got in to a GP.
This Canadian says Suzanne Somers is a TFM and knows shit about our system.
Thank you laundry_queen
oh yeah
The less us peons spend on health care, the more we have, to spend on her and others crap products.
If they weren't so damn greedy, they would realize that.
Good one
It costs just as much to go to vet school as med school, it's tougher to graduate (the wide variety of species) and Vets can't charge what Doctors do you silly gd twit!
Go to a Vet then. GOD I hate this argument. So let's not give pets quality health care lets make them suffer! and magically this will alleviate problems with human health care.
I knew I didn't like her. What a bubblehead
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but making lies about our system is just plain pathetic.
I haven't had a GP(Family Doctor) for over a decade - but NEVER denied care for even the simplest ailment.
I live in a small town where the aging population (I'm part of that) has strained our GPs to the point where they cannot take any more patients -
BUT they all take turns covering our emergency ward sort of like a clinic - larger towns/cities have permanent clinics - sometime you might have to wait an hour or so, but our triage system makes certain that the more serious ailments get taken care of first.
If you go in for a painful ingrown toenail, you may have to wait many hours while Doctors and nurses take care of burns, broken bones, heart pain, etc., BUT YOU WILL GET YOUR TOENAIL TAKEN CARE OF!
Heck, I even got an ambulance ride in minutes just for severe diarrhea, so bad I figured I wouldn't make the 5 mile drive without shitting myself, and certainly was not going to call a cab or a friend to shit their vehicle up.
I was diagnosed quickly, vitals and blood work done, then x-rays (in video mode no less) - given some medication, and fed a good meal 3 hours later, observed for 2 hours then sent home.
My cost - NOT ONE DIME - well, except fr the cab ride home - $10.
The meal and meds were worth more than that . . .
On the dog thing Chrissy - YA GOTTA PAY BIG BUCKS FOR THAT - doh!
And either your sister-in-law is as dumb as Chrissy, or that story is just baloney.
By the way, our healthcare is funded through taxes on our paychecks, of which I have had none (paychecks) for over 5 years - Welfare, then a small pension - -
I'm covered the same as anyone else.
Dis be Canada, Chrissy - -
you be 
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