Quote of the week.

Day 642

Saskatoon-based health-policy expert Steven Lewis, in a pro-Canadian healthcare YouTube video:

“If [Americans] want to use our system as a whipping boy in their own propaganda wars, it's mildly irritating. ... We should hope for our American brothers and sisters that they get it right, but I for one don't much care about what right-wing superstitions Americans want to put out there about our Canadian system because ultimately they're the ones who suffer from their own ignorance.”

 

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