Shona Holmes

Shona Holmes is the John McCain fan (read: "Idiot") who has decided to make herself the poster-girl for the "STOP healthcare for the poor" movement in the United States of America.

While Ms. Holmes's deadly, cancerous brain tumour has since been fact-checked down to a cyst, there's also the fact that the cyst was causing temporary blindness, which must have been traumatic. Also, there's been over a decade of growing waiting-lists caused by deliberate under-funding of healthcare by scumbag neoliberal politicians who couldn't have done a better job of discrediting our public healthcare system if they were in the employ of private health insurance companies.

But waiting-lists or not, Ms. Holmes's cyst was a "pre-existing condition" that a private insurer would have used to disqualify her for care, so she obviously has her head up her ass if she thinks she wouldn't have had to take out a second mortgage on her house and etc., if she'd lived in the USA with their for-profit system. And what her story has to do with those USians who can't afford healthcare at all is unclear. "I had to wait months for treatment. Don't push for a system that would at least pay for you to get diagnosed, because you might have to wait a few months for the care you're going to get. You're better off having nothing at all."

"A Creative Revolution" has a link that debunks the stories of hordes of us Canucks rushing over the border to get that healthcare we can't get at home.