A former Cigna VP describes his 2007 PR campaign to lie to Americans about how bad the Canadian health-care system is: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
Alas, it worked.
I have family/friends in Canada, and wow, for all its warts, the system there works *so* much better than in the US
2:42 AM · Dec 26, 2020
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And honestly, there aren't even that many warts.
A few years ago, my mother -- in her late 70s -- developed lung cancer. She'd smoked for decades. They gave her top-notch, speedy care, and a few years later she was cancer-free.
Can you *imagine* how that would have gone down...
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... in the US?
She was high-school-educated, living on a very modest pension from years in low-paid assistant jobs. She had not much savings, though she owned her condo.
A US insurance company might have delayed, denied coverage. She could easily have been cleaned out
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