John McKinney, Connecticut state senator and likely Republican challenger to freshman U.S. congressman Jim Himes, recently stated in a debate about health care in the state's General Assembly that he'd heard a horror story about a man in Canada with terminal cancer who had to wait eight months before he could see a doctor and get treated for his condition. Is this possible? Can someone in Canada with serious cancer be forced to wait months to get treatment? If this is bunk, I would really appreciate it if any Kossacks out there with knowledge and experience of the Canadian health care system would chime in here. Please help us tell the truth.
Republican John McKinney was weighing in on the debate on Connecticut Democrats' plan to open the state health insurance system to small businesses. McKinney opposed it, and stated that America's health care system was "much, much better" than any other country's system of national health care. McKinney is the Republican minority leader in Connecticut's senate, and the son of the late congressman Stewart McKinney, who died in office in 1987.