ObamaCare from the Eyes of a Canadian Healthcare Refugee
14 March 2014
Shona Holmes, a leading patients' rights advocate who fled Canada to seek life-saving medical treatment in the United States, discusses how universal health care does not end suffering, it just redistributes it, and how access to health insurance does not equal access to healthcare.
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