If you are eager to add more government to healthcare, please Google Shona Holmes. Read what she writes about the Canadian healthcare system.

She claims that that bureaucratic system performed a miracle. It transformed her from a human into a number. And nearly killed her in the process.

Shona needed diagnosis urgently. She was losing her sight. The bureaucrats stood her at the end of the line. Four to six months to see specialists.

She was forced to fly to Phoenix to see American specialists.

They told her she needed surgery urgently. To remove a brain tumor that threatened her sight. The Canadian bureaucrats refused. Told her to stand in line.

She returned to the States, got the surgery and now sees. One thing she sees is something too many Americans are blind to. She sees tragic shortcomings in government-run healthcare. She sees that our system works better.

“I sincerely hope that Americans won’t destroy a system that is the envy of the world by placing it under the yoke of big government bureaucracy.” And yet this is exactly what many of our leaders want to do.

Government-run systems have the same problems the world over. Shortages. They are always short of specialists. They are short of equipment. They are short of nurses. And so the patients must wait for diagnosis and treatment.