This one really takes the cake. It is so bold, so outrageous that I had to fact-check it myself to see if it could even be true. Surely, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa (a man known as a moderate) didn't really say that Senator Ted Kennedy, who is battling a brain tumor while fighting for health care reform, would go untreated if he were a British citizen?
Yep, he said it. Forget for a moment that Sen. Kennedy is NOT advocating a British or Canadian-style single-payer system. Forget that that none of the plans emerging from either the House or Senate committees includes a single-payer provision. Focus instead on this, the latest of the Republican lies. I can't even write "misrepresentations" anymore.
This lie flies in the face of a simple truth: if Sen. Kennedy were a British citizen, he would receive the same care is receiving here with one major exception. His care would be cost-free, as it would be for ANY Brit who suffered from brain cancer (or any other ailment.)
Shame on you, Chuck Grassley.
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