Toronto doctor smacks down U.S. Senate question on Canadian healthcare

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Toronto doctor smacks down U.S. Senate question on Canadian waitlist deaths

A Toronto doctor snidely held her own Tuesday after an obscure U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing suddenly turned into a quarrel over the purported deadliness of Canadian health care.
“On average, how many Canadian patients on a waiting list die each year? Do you know?” Republican Senator Richard Burr asked at the end of a prickly exchange with Dr. Danielle Martin, vice president of Medical Affairs at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital.
“I don’t, sir, but I know that there are 45,000 in America who die waiting because they don’t have insurance at all,” she said.

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So who is Dr. Martin? I never heard of her before either, but it's not the first time she's spoken in front of people. Here she is on TED. I like what she had to say.