Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina said in her party’s weekly radio and Internet address that her diagnosis "took six doctors, three mammograms and one ultrasound before they finally they found my cancer. This process took only a few weeks."<\/font><\/p>\n "Under the government-run health care system they have in Canada and the United Kingdom, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to get those tests so quickly<\/strong>," she said. "One international study found that three times as many citizens in those countries wait longer than a month to see a specialist. When it comes to life-threatening diseases like cancer, delay could mean death<\/strong>."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <AP<\/a>><\/p>\n I\u2019m glad that Sue Myrick got the care she needed from the government run health care that we taxpayers provide Congress. It is the height of hypocrisy that she is now lying to deny the same level of care to millions of Americans, even though the lack of it kills 45,000 of us per year.<\/p>\n We happen to have Jo among our regulars, a lady of impeccable integrity, one whom I have known for several years, and one who has a front row seat to what goes on in Canadian health care. Her job involves helping to administer that system in her home province. A few days ago she posted an article on her blog expressing her frustration at the lies she keeps hearing from our side of the border about Canadian health care. Her article is definitely worth the read. To do so, Click Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I for one am getting a little sick of Republicans lying about health care in countries where it is far superior to our own. A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment. Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina said in her […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sue-Myrick\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/MoreGOPLiesonHealthCare_227B\/SueMyrick.jpg\" "\\"Sue-Myrick\\"")
<\/a> A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment.<\/font><\/p>\n