May 06th, 2017

The US Healthcare 'Fix'

I, like many of you, have you been watching what qualifies as the healthcare debate in the land of the free. The only thing that’s bi-partisan about this exercise in democracy is the lowest common denominator equal-access scream-fest driving the US cable news format.

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For all of its warts, I can’t imagine trading our Canadian ‘universal’ healthcare for the abomination that they’ve glued together south of the border. I understand – first hand – the shortcomings of the Canadian system – but I know that paying my medical bills is unlikely to bankrupt me in my senior years.

The House of Representative has passed a new Healthcare plan that ‘fixes’ the plan championed by President Obama. I will leave it to the cable news network ‘specialists’ to pronounce on who will live and who will die in the land of the free.

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The land of the free- where Americans have the constitutional right to be a mass murder victim - mowed down in a hail of high calibre semi-automatic gunfire because they have the right to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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The same land of the free where legislators routinely and on script offer bowed heads, "thoughts and prayers" and requisite moments of silence to salve sorrows, erase memories and cleanse the slate in preparation for the next bloody, fatal assault we know is coming.

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The land of the free where vile racists and libelous, bald-faced liars have the constitutional right to spew venomous, alternate facts and conspiracy theories without accountability.

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The land of the free where you have the constitutional right to bear arms and the right to free speech without accountability, without regard for "the cost."

The land of the free – where you don't have a constitutional right to healthcare (because it's all about "the cost") – where you’re simply left with the right to dwell in the home of the brave once your benefits run out.

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