I have a close friend who spent many years living in southern Arizona, which is not exactly a liberal bastion. My friend was a volunteer naturalist who led nature walks in the area where he lived several times per week. Over the course of 10 years or so he meant hundreds of people who were vacationing from Canada. As a compassionate and concerned person who believes in core human values that improve the quality of life for all, my friend made it a point to ask each and every visiting Canadian what they thought about their health care system, which is malignly referred to by conservatives as "socialized medicine."
Each and every person that he asked responded the same way. They love it, and can't imagine life without it! My friend also asked if their was any truth to the rumors spread by politicians and others through-out our "liberal media" that Canadian citizens often have to wait months to have a broken leg repaired or a sore throat treated, and if bureaucratic "death panels" made health-related decisions for you.
Each and every person of the hundreds asked said that was complete and utter nonsense. The only complaint commonly voiced was that if you moved to a new town, especially a small town, you might have to wait awhile to be accepted as a new patient by a new doctor. That was the sole complaint, out of hundreds interviewed!
I like to think that I'm smart enough to know when I'm ignorant (rather than ignorant enough to think I'm smart) and I realize this is not by any stretch a legitimate scientific poll. But it speaks volumes about the so-called truths being spouted by the nay-sayers to whom the words "socialism and satanism" are synonymous.
ALAN SAVILLE
Louisville
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