This Time, We Won’t Scare

[Swede]

Back in the election campaign, some people spread rumors that Barack Obama might be a secret Muslim conspiring to impose Sharia law on us. That seems unlikely now, but what if he’s a covert Canadian plotting to impose ... health care?

Rick Scott, a former hospital company chief executive, leads a group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. He was forced to resign as C.E.O. after his company defrauded the government through overbilling and is now spending his time trying to block meaningful health care reform by terrifying us with commercials of “real-life stories of the victims of government-run health care.”



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/opinion/11kristof.html?_r=1

[Stuart G]

1. Please read this short column..worth it..K and R.

[lxlxlxl]

2. HES CANADIAN! OF COURSE! It all makes sense now =)

=)

[marybourg]

3. Good article, but

the following was intended as the negative side of Canadian care: "Still, there were two patients to a room, and conditions weren’t as opulent as at some American hospitals. The food was horrible, she said"

No different from the hospital my husband was in recently in the US of A, where the bill, before Medicare, was $69,000. Luckily, we oldsters have socialized medicine. I hope everyone else will have it soon too!

[NC_Nurse]

4. Great article. K&R

[BrklynLiberal]

5. K&R