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Pretty sad when you have to try to make shit up to win. I hope Mittens and Ryan enjoy their time off from all the lying. 
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Canadian woman is the star of a new health care campaign ad running in Minnesota, including on WCCO-TV.
The ad is produced by Americans for Prosperity, the conservative Super PAC with ties to the Tea Party and funded by the oil billionaire Koch brothers.
But the ad is based on a false premise: That America’s new health care law creates a government-run system, like Canada’s. But it’s not true. The U.S. has a private, insurance-run program.
In the ad, Shona Holmes, of Ontario, says she had a brain tumor and had to wait for a long time in Canada to get a doctor’s appointment. She had to wait so long, she says, that if she didn’t go to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, she could have died.
“I knew then the system had become far more dangerous for patients than I had ever realized,” she says in the ad. “The American system was there for me when I needed it.”
But Canadian doctors told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that her story was an exaggeration.
Holmes had what’s called a Rathke’s cyst, a slow-growing, benign lesion that causes vision loss. The Mayo Clinic said such a cyst can be treated and is not typically fatal.
But that’s NOT THE WHOLE STORY.
The Canadian Health Service says there’s no waiting period for patients with life-threatening illnesses. However, 8 percent of Canadian patients do wait six months for some surgeries, according to a national health policy group. But the patients only wait that long for non-threatening, elective operations.
At the moment, the Americans for Prosperity ad is up and running in 11 states, including Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Also, this is not the first time Holmes was featured by Americans for Prosperity. In 2009, Holmes made the same claims before Congress voted on the health care bill. However, her claims were later debunked by independent fact-checkers like FactCheck.org.
The Mayo Clinic said it can’t comment on Holmes’ story, because it doesn’t talk about specific patients. However, in 2007, Mayo Clinic did feature her on its website as a success story. The feature said Holmes was in danger of losing her vision, but it did not say she was in danger of dying.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Canadian woman is the star of a new health care campaign ad running in Minnesota, including on WCCO-TV.
The ad is produced by Americans for Prosperity, the conservative Super PAC with ties to the Tea Party and funded by the oil billionaire Koch brothers.
But the ad is based on a false premise: That America’s new health care law creates a government-run system, like Canada’s. But it’s not true. The U.S. has a private, insurance-run program.
In the ad, Shona Holmes, of Ontario, says she had a brain tumor and had to wait for a long time in Canada to get a doctor’s appointment. She had to wait so long, she says, that if she didn’t go to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, she could have died.
“I knew then the system had become far more dangerous for patients than I had ever realized,” she says in the ad. “The American system was there for me when I needed it.”
But Canadian doctors told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that her story was an exaggeration.
Holmes had what’s called a Rathke’s cyst, a slow-growing, benign lesion that causes vision loss. The Mayo Clinic said such a cyst can be treated and is not typically fatal.
But that’s NOT THE WHOLE STORY.
The Canadian Health Service says there’s no waiting period for patients with life-threatening illnesses. However, 8 percent of Canadian patients do wait six months for some surgeries, according to a national health policy group. But the patients only wait that long for non-threatening, elective operations.
At the moment, the Americans for Prosperity ad is up and running in 11 states, including Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Also, this is not the first time Holmes was featured by Americans for Prosperity. In 2009, Holmes made the same claims before Congress voted on the health care bill. However, her claims were later debunked by independent fact-checkers like FactCheck.org.
The Mayo Clinic said it can’t comment on Holmes’ story, because it doesn’t talk about specific patients. However, in 2007, Mayo Clinic did feature her on its website as a success story. The feature said Holmes was in danger of losing her vision, but it did not say she was in danger of dying.
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