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<div><br></div><div>Nick Gier wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">Myth #1. The Affordable Care Act is a government takeover. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">The people at Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact, who have criticized both Democrats and Republicans for their errors, have declared this claim “2010 Lie of the Year.” </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">I heard another Big Lie about this on NPR. The announcer said "the US system would not be a government takeover of health care, unlike in Britain and Canada, where the government runs the health care system."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">The Big Lie here is that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">in Canada </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">the government does not run the health system, as it does in Britain. In Canada it is only health insurance which is run by the governments (single payer insurance). The doctors operate their own businesses, exactly the same as south of the border in the US. They don't need a large staff of office employees to deal with a multitude of insurance companies. They just send all their bills to one insurance company, the single payer in their respective provincial capitals.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">I was disappointed that NPR had also picked up this Big Lie. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">Ralph</span></div></body></html>