From a reader about wait times for surgery in the United States:
I'm 77 and after 12 years of pain and finally now I'm almost crippled (osteoarthritis), I am awaiting surgery. Wait time? THREE MONTHS. Maybe my surgeon, a very good one and very busy, is on vacation for a month. It's summer in the desert, after all. While I wait, I'm doing pool exercise and trying to lose some excess weight. I'm just grateful for Medicare and the promise I can continue to walk! My grandmother and sister weren't so lucky. They ended up in wheelchairs.
The cynicism of the right is staggering when it comes to this "American private healthcare is the best in the world! ROOOWWWR!" They assume that because Canada is waaay up there, we won't bother to find out the truth about their system. Likewise, and more specifically, they somehow assume we won't hear a wide array of healthcare stories from right here in the states. But when an entire party operates on fiction, they operate as though everyone will buy their myths.