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[quote=Anonymous]Insurance companies have pushed the false narrative that Canada's universal healthcare is horrible.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/27/884307565/after-pushing-lies-former-cigna-executive-praises-canadas-health-care-system

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-canada-got-universal-health-care-and-what-the-u-s-could-learn

[quote]For roughly 20 years, Wendell Potter worked to sow fear of the Canadian health care system — including long wait times like these — in the minds of Americans. As the head of corporate communications for health insurance giant Cigna, Potter said industry executives felt the public Canadian system exposed shortcomings in the private U.S. health system and potentially threatened their profits.

That led Potter and his peers to perpetuate the idea that wait times forced Canadians to forgo needed medical care and live in peril. Potter said he and his colleagues cherry-picked data and obscured the bigger picture, but to get that mischaracterization to take root in people’s imagination, “there needs to be a kernel of truth there,” he said.

In this case, Canadians at the time experienced longer wait times for non-emergency elective procedures, such as knee and hip replacements. Massive health insurance companies poured money into promoting this idea until it bloomed into a mischaracterization of the entire Canadian health care system.

The trick to getting misinformation to stick is to “repeat it over and over and over again, over years, and get friends to repeat it,” Potter said.[/quote]

Seems this trick has worked for most Americans, especially Rs. But then again, Rs seem to be easily duped by a lot of things.[/quote]

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