Dear Wrestling Observer,

I'm a long time wrestling fan and follower of the Observer online. The recent noise from UFC champ Brock Lesnar denegrating the healthcare system here in Canada ticks me off. The folowing is a copy of the letter I sent to Paul Heyman's website after he gave space to Lesnar to spread his ample ignorance.

Thanks for all the work you do and for covering more than just the results and entertainment of the business.

Regards,

Lindsay
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With all due respect to Brock Lesnar, a good deal of the difficulties that found him in a Canadian hospital are of his own doing. As a Canadian I wouldn't trade the quality of our health care system for the corrupt, lunacy that passes for a medical system to our south. Mr. Lesnar is a very fortunate individual, he is wealthy and famous and can afford the very best of most anything he desires. More than 30 million of his fellow citizens are not so lucky. In America today the number of people with either no health care coverage or with grossly inadequate coverage is approximately equal to the entire population of Canada. But really the big, tough warrior was already ill and under doctor's care, so what does the intellectual giant do, he heads into the wilds to hunt. He toddles into the woods in a sparsely populated region of Canada and falls ill. After receiving treatment in a rural facility, this lumbering oaf has the temerity to whine like a spoiled bitch that they didn't have the very latest high tech equipment. Well I'm sure the local health facilities in every American town with a population of less than 40,000 are brimming with the very latest of high tech gear. Hell, its America and the Mayo Clinic is a franchise operation, right?

The simple fact is that Brock Lesnar exacerbated his condition by acting foolishly. He found himself in a perfectly adequate, small town facility and got scared. He got scared because he's a spoiled baby, a gigantic and dangerous spoiled baby but a spoiled baby none the less. To cover for his panic attack, he's decided that he will cover the trail of his own cowardly piddle all the way back to the Mayo Clinic with a healthy layer of the sort of ill thought bullshit we've come to expect from this ignorant behemoth. The pampered monster is no doubt used to having a luxury suite in every medical facility he might enter, sorry Brock but in Canada we provide care for everyone, regardless of status. We don't run spas, we run hospitals where people work hard and do their best. We don't operate on a privilege basis, your wealth doesn't get you more and better than the grandmother living a subsistence lifestyle. In America that grandmother would be turned away from care and would be forced to seek routine treatment at an over burdened emergency room. God bless America, if you have the dollars to do it.

Lesnar is a loud mouthed, brash buffoon whose ignorance is as deep as his shoulders are wide. He's trying to make political hay by slandering his betters. And when it comes to compassion for all the people, not just the wealthy, white and powerful, we Canadians are your betters. We don't have "socialist" medicine but then Brock's not exactly clever enough to parse things beyond the Glenn Beck level of rhetorical 'truth by repeated assertion', no matter how wrong the notion being repeated. We have socialized medicine, meaning that every citizen is entitled to an adequate level of care and dignity. Mr Lesnar might want to take a stroll through parts of Detroit or Gary, Indiana if he really wants to see a third world analogue, one wonders what level of health care is available there or in the projects or in South Central or any of the impoverished, battlegrounds of privation and indignity that are growing and spreading across the American landscape. Well let's face it, a spoiled pissant like Brock will never know the truth of the nation he lives in because he'll be driven past and not through such areas because he's wealthy and famous. While he's got money, the realities of those around him will never encroach on his sheltered world. So goody for Brock Lesnar.

In the mean time, tent cities are springing up, veterans are homeless and living in squalor and millions of American families, working families, are doing without even the very basic levels of health care. If a profoundly lucky man like Brock Lesnar is willing to fight to maintain that as the status quo, well then he's also a profoundly stupid man. But this Canadian is proud to support a system that looks after all of of the people, all of the time. It isn't a perfect system but it is a more economically sound and juster system than the graft, greed and gluttony of America's rapacious profit based system. I don't expect that Mr. Lesnar will decide to moderate his words with anything resembling thought unless there's an economic repercussion. But in future it would be wise to note that loud ignorance does not equal truth. And until Brock Lesnar gets over his petulant fear and juvenile tantrums it would be lovely if he shut his fat mouth about things he quite obviously knows nothing about. And it is abundantly clear he doesn't know much of anything about Canadian healthcare.

Sincerely,

Lindsay Stewart