YouTube video message to Americans from Canadian doctors

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Canadian health-care advocates fire back

YouTube video intended to correct what they see as misconceptions about Canada's

health resources being batted about in heated American health-care debate.

Mehler Paperny

Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 01:21AM EDT

.... , Saskatoon-based health policy and research consultant, says

Canadians are happier with their health-care system than they were 10 years ago,

and they should be.

" 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. "

The clip, helpfully titled " Universal health-care message to Americans from

Canadian doctors and health-care experts " has been viewed more than 26,000 times

since it was posted Aug. 22...

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