by Charley James
For as long as anyone can remember, Canada has been the world’s warm-hearted, generous friend.
When Mao’s millions were on the long march, Canadian physician Dr. Norman Bethune went to China to care for the sick, wounded and disabled making the trek, regardless of their politics. Because British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery used Canadian [...]

by Charley James
It’s time for a truth-and-reality check on conservative crazies in Congress, on Fox and loose in the country who keep using the Canadian national health system as their example of why they object to making major reforms to America ’s medico-insurance complex.
I’ve experienced health care on both sides of the 49th parallel and [...]

by Charley James
“What is happening?” I ask myself while reading newspapers in my sick bed where Canada’s national health plan is treating me for a serious ailment at no cost to me and without any waiting times.
A Kansas Congresswoman - a Republican, naturally, and its not even Michelle Bachman - says her party is looking [...]

 
by Charley James
In so-called “public service” ads appearing on TV and radio, or in print and on the intertubes, many health insurance companies urge people to stay healthy by quitting smoking. The company that provides a supplemental policy to me that covers things not paid by Canada’s national health even e-mailed a helpful PDF brochure [...]

 
McCain misstatements from the last debate:
• Governor Palin a Bresh of freth air.
• Calling Obama ‘Senator Government’.
• Saying Obama voted for Supreme Court Justice Bryer even though he was confirmed 10 years ago, before Obama was in the Senate.
• Promise he would fight for a line-item veto, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1998.
• Hitching onto [...]