Tommy Douglas
If you believe Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Glenn Beck (AH-Connecticut) or any of the Tea Party dime store patriots, a serious humanitarian crisis is taking place just across our northern border. Canadians are dropping like flies from a lack of health care. Canada’s socialist health care system is killing them with neglect!
The Canadian government is masterfully covering up the crisis and, so far, has been able to utterly conceal it even from the free Canadian press. Grassley, Beck and a few thousand Tea Baggers know about it, but evidently the Toronto Star and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) do not. That kind of deception takes some doing even for the most ruthless and determined regime.
Okay, it’s all nonsense, of course. Canadians love their health care system, and why not? It out performs our own in almost every measurable way. Need proof? I mean, proof beyond the reports of the World Health Organization, every major Canadian newspaper, the word of millions of Americans who regularly travel to Canada and are familiar with the attitudes of their Canadian friends? Well, consider this…
A few years ago (in November, 2004 to be exact) the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) conducted a poll to determine who, in the view of the company’s vast viewership, is regarded as the Greatest Canadian of All Time. Over 1.2 million Canadians cast their votes, nominating such luminaries as hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. But, who was the winner? The man most revered of all Canadians, not only of our own time, but of all time? Drum roll……… Tommy Douglas!
That’s right, Tommy Douglas. The man who conceived, designed and brought to reality Canada’s Medicare program, the socialized medicine system enjoyed by Canadians from coast to coast. A former preacher, Douglas championed the Christian social gospel through three decades of Canadian politics. He accomplished many things for Saskatchewan (of which we was Premier) and for his country, but his crowning achievement for which Canadians revere his memory was universal, socialized health care.
So, now you know the truth. Canadians loved Tommy Douglas and his socialized medicine. They still do.
Now that you’ve learned something important, here’s your altogether unimportant Perkerson Park® Verified Factual Fact for the day: Tommy Douglas was Keifer Sutherland’s grandfather.
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I’m hoping the teabaggers’ rants will eventually cause people to question their sanity and motives. I fear people will simply believe them with no thought given to what the facts are and then they will all go and place an order for a spaghetti bush.
I put my order in today for a spaghetti tree…..I need the tree version so that my dog won’t try to eat the blooms when they grow.
I wish I knew some Canadians I could ask about their health care. I keep hearing different stories from all sides of the health care debate and I don’t know who to believe anymore. If Canadian health care was all that bad you would think I would have heard something about it before the health care debate started in this country.
CANADIANS ARE SOCIALISTS!!! They have been on the SOCIALIST FREE RIDE for so long that no one there remembers what it was like to be free. They are just l ike the FRENCH and they are no friend to Ameria who has fought for their freedoms in every world conflict. They did nothing to protect us in Vietnam and we owE the ungreatful Canadains nothing. We dont want to make a healthcare system like the one those cowards have. Take back the free market system that rewards people who work hard and made this country great!!! SEMPER FI!!!
I am not Canadian. I am not a socialist. Be that as it may, if securing AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR EVERY AMERICAN, REGARDLESS OF AGE, PREEXISTING CONDITIONS, FINANCIAL STATUS, GENDER OR POLITICAL VIEWPOINTS makes it necessary to declare myself a socialist – so be it. I’ll even swear that I don’t have a U.S. birth certificate and must have been born in Canada. Having to wear either of these labels is a small price to pay to know that my country is providing equal access to health coverage to any and all Americans. A small price to pay.
I am Canadian, though I am currently living in the U.S. I have used public health care in Canada for most of my life. The quality of public health care in Canada is every bit as good as most private health care in the U.S. and is certainly more affordable. Every Canadian can afford health care because it is free. I imagine that rich people can get the best of the best no matter where they live. For most average people health care in Canada is much better than in the U.S. because it is available even when you can’t pay for it. Nobody is turned away because they don’t have the money.