Michael Moore isn't the only advocate of government-run medicine to use deception and lies to further the cause. Paul Krugman at the New York Times, in a column earlier this week, defends the Canadian system with all the deceit he can muster:
Yes, Canadians wait longer than insured Americans for elective surgery. But over all, the average Canadian's access to health care is as good as that of the average insured American ...
Krugman wants his readers to think that by "elective", he means things like hip replacements and cataract operations - when, in fact, "elective" surgery in Canada includes all cancer surgery and coronary artery bypass surgeries.
Posted by Stuart Browning
12 Jul 2007 @ 11:21am
12 Jul 2007 @ 11:21am