Suzanne Somers, a star that turned into a longevity expert, called Obama's Affordable Care Act a "Ponzi Scheme" in her Wall Street Journal opinion column on Monday.
With an article that needed some correction from Journal editors, the "health expert" argued that Obamacare is a socialist and fraudulent scheme that will collect money for some people at the same time it will raise privacy concerns.
"First of all, let's call affordable health care what it really is: it's socialized medicine," Suzanne Somers started. "I've had an opportunity to watch the Canadian version of affordable health care in action with all its limitations with my Canadian husband's family."
According to her experience, Obamacare would have a similar end as Canadian version with no doctors treating people on time and a medicine system full of bureaucracy.
"My sister-in-law had to wait two months to get a General Practitioner. During this period she spent her days in bed vomiting continuously, unable to get any food or drink down because she couldn't get an appointment with the doctor. When she finally did, the doctor said, "Oh you don't need me, you need a specialist." That took another two weeks until she got a pill that corrected the problem," she added. "Really, is this what we want?"
Suzanne Somers narrated that even doctors are leaving Canada and have moved to the United States, where they can earn real money after "years of intensive schooling".
"Boomers are smart. They see the train wreck coming... most I speak with think the Affordable Care Act is a greater Ponzi scheme than that pulled off by Bernie Madoff," she ends.
In the other hand, media is criticizing Somers because she had a high number of errors, three, for an article of fewer than 600 words.
"An earlier version of this post contained a quotation attributed to Lenin ("Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state") that has been widely disputed. And it included a quotation attributed to Churchill ("Control your citizens' health care and you control your citizens") that the Journal has been unable to confirm," Journal editors wrote at the end of the article.
"Also, the cover of a Maclean's magazine issue in 2008 showed a picture of a dog on an examining table with the headline "Your Dog Can Get Better Health Care Than You." An earlier version of this post incorrectly said the photo showed and headline referred to a horse."
