Mother Jones
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From Douglas Coupland, after contracting bronchitis from a chilly hotel room in Atlanta:
Finally, I dragged myself to a local medical clinic, and this is when things got really American.
By “really American,” he means that he ended up being part of a scam that involved deliberately not treating him in order to get him hooked on oxycodone. No worries, though. The socialist Canadian health system eventually saved him.
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