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Maybe he's taken too many shots to the head, or perhaps he just didn't stop to think what he was actually implying when he made some public statements about his experience with health care in Canada (I have a feeling it may be a bit of both). In any case, Brock Lesnar probably didn't make too many Canadians happy when he decided to throw our health care system under the bus.

Comparing it to a "third world country", Brock said he had to leave a Canadian hospital (which he won't identify for some reason) he was admitted to so he could head to a facility in North Dakota for treatment. He said the doctors in Canada didn't know what they were doing and because of faulty equipment, couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. So he went back to the good 'ol USA, where no one was is turned away because of their inability to pay, and made a full recovery. He's expected to fight again this summer (and I'm actually happy about that, because some were saying he might have died as his condition was so bad).

I wouldn't be bothered so much by this story, but he said he wanted to bring up his experiences in Canada because he's completely against President Obama's health care reforms. After all, Canada doesn't know what they're doing after this experience, right? This is something the United States doesn't need.

Bottom line is Lesnar has been sick since at least the Fall, and his U.S. doctors, probably some of the best considering the money he makes, couldn't figure out what was wrong with him despite numerous visits & checkups, and ended up misdiagnosing him with mononucleosis. His condition had gotten worse and worse until he woke up with a severe stomach pain and 40C fever that sent him into shock and to a rural hospital in Manitoba during a hunting trip.

Sounds like when this incident is dissected, it was unfortunate the equipment that might have helped the doctors figure out he actually had diverticulitis was faulty. And seeing he was in a rural area, it's not like they could send him up the street to another facility. Just some bad luck and circumstances and indeed, the best idea was to go to elsewhere to get treatment.

And it was probably bad luck that his own doctors in Minnesota couldn't figure out what was wrong him to begin with. This doesn't mean I think American doctors are incompetent and don't know what they're doing. Circumstances, bad luck, both in Canada and the United States...it seems Lesnar couldn't buy a break here while he had this condition.

But it's too bad he decided to get political about it. He conveniently forgets what caused his problems in the first place while slamming President Obama's reforms: misdiagnosis by physicians carrying U.S. passports.

If you're going to tell your story Brock, tell it, from start to finish. Get out of the political arena, and stick to the octagon.