That lying Shona Holmes TV commercial

Of course, all commercials lie to us. That's why they're called "commercials." But this one is more insidious than your average TV spot. It depicts a woman named Shona Holmes from Canada who claims that she was denied treatment for her brain tumor in her home country and would have died had she not elected to come across the border where medical care is so much superior to that found in her country. The commercial is designed to get public support mounted against President Obama's health care reform ideas.

The truth of the matter is Shona Holmes never had a brain tumor. She had a cyst. "Shona Holmes chose to jump the queue and go stateside for treatment she didn’t really need..." The irony of all this is that Ms. Holmes was born with this cyst and, thus, it would be classified by private insurance companies as a "pre-existing condition." In other words, her surgery would not have been covered by insurance in the United States, but it would have in Canada.

This jerk paid for the surgery she had in Arizona out of her own pocket and is now back in Canada where she has filed a lawsuit in attempt to get her money back. Lotsa luck on that!