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The Free Market Cure

The Lemon draws parallels between collectivized healthcare systems and the East German Trabant, a noisy, inefficient, underpowered automobile that remained a symbol of communist inefficiency and lack of ingenuity, mostly unchanged for nearly thirty years.

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They received little help from their parliamentary representative, nor from George Smitherman, the Ontario Minister of Health, who the film describes as the "ultimate healthcare gatekeeper for the 12.5 million citizens of Ontario."

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Ms. Healey did pay for her operation in Washington, and doctors there found that her artery was nearly completely blocked, a life threatening condition that would have caused her intestines to perfuse inadequately, leading her to, in essence, starve to death.

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