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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Obamacare moving-to-Canada threats: how stupid are they?
Ruth Spencer and Maraithe Thomas
guardian.co.uk, Friday 29 June 2012 12.45 EDT
When I say Canada, you say ? Sigh. We all know that Americans don't pay much attention to its 'hat', but when Emma from Degrassi got an STD, you know she was covered by national healthcare! So really, Twitter folk, you should have known better.
Buzzfeed's Dave Stopera collected tweets of conservative reactions to the Obamacare ruling with the unlikely threat of a move to Canada a country with a single-payer, national healthcare system. How about that? Twitter took the opportunity to flex its wit and we've collected the best reactions.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/29/obamacare-moving-canada-twitter
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The Obamacare moving-to-Canada threats: how stupid are they? (Original Post)
n2doc
Jun 2012
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louis-t
(23,297 posts)1. "We're socialists, you idiots"
and some of them actually believe that Canada would take them.
nenagh
(1,925 posts)3. What the *****
Do they want to move to Canada for our healthcare???
Grey
(1,581 posts)4. I'm sorry, but they
need to read our Gun Laws. Dumb.