Extreme Lefty Maude Barlow weighs in on our health care system under the guise of the "Council for Canadians", a lefty think tank...as if they ever think!
Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians says the federal government should commit to a 10-year health transfer plan with the provinces that would see a six per cent increase in funding annually.
"At the moment, the Harper government is only committed to 2016, so we are very concerned that they have no intention of carrying it beyond that," Barlow told a news conference Thursday.
Barlow added that the Canada Health Act must be better enforced so that it's used to stop private health care services from eroding the system.
Barlow also wants to see health care coverage include dental care, pharmacare and continuing care.
Hello Maude, 2016!!! This is 2011, and the lefties are already worried about 2016? Oh my God, can they get anymore irrelevant? Stop private health care services, right Maude? Didn't Saint Jack use private health care services? Answer that one honestly if you can.
Maude has spoken. All hail socialists and their lack of concern for the actual people who use our health care system. Maude tells Canadians to eat cake and like it!
Instead of demanding more money for our failing health system, why not spend that money to support our doctors and nurses by allowing them the freedom to provide both public and private services?
Let's take hip replacements as an example. My doctor gets the operating room in the hospital one morning a month, so he can only book a few hip replacements. The rest of the time, he is evaluating patients in his office and putting them on a wait list. His skills are being seriously underused and his nurses could be given more responsibilities in the evaluation process.
Now, allow private health care. My doctor can set up an operating room in his office and offer hip replacements for a fee. He will still be required to do hip replacements at the hospital once a month as usual. His skills can be used everyday, and his nurses will be more involved in the whole process. Those who can not pay extra are still added to his wait list for the hospital once a month, but the list will be way shorter because those who choose to pay will not be on the list anymore.
Is that to hard for lefties to understand? Dentists perform surgeries in their offices everyday. Why can they do that and not other doctors? Lefties freak out when they think someone else is getting better care than they might, unless they are Saint Jack and then it's okay for him to use private health care because he was so precious to their cause. Maude should run for the NDP, she is their next Saint....oh I forgot the NDP are mainly a godless lot.
A mix of public and private health care is the only solution, but the lefties will have to be dragged crying and screaming into the brave new world of efficient health care, not the Tommy Douglas, sterilize handicapped people type of health care. And they accuse Conservatives of not being open to change? HA!
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As a couple in BC, we pay an additional $1332 per year for BC healthcare and about $3000 for additional medical/dental thru BlueCross - over and above our tax hit which is about $770 per man woman child in Canada. If Claude Marbles thinks I am going to pay more she has another thing coming.
Why can't your doctor set up a hip replacement factory in his office under the existing system? Layton's famous hernia surgery at Shouldice, a privately owned clinic was still done under the public system. He may have paid out of pocket for a private room but OHIP paid for the surgery.
Why can't your doctor set up his own clinic? Mainly because he can't afford it. All the US health conglomerates will not invest in it until they are assured they can charge 10x the OHIP (or whatever they call it in Alberta) rate, skip off the competent doctors and leave everyone else with the leftovers.
But it is not illegal for your doctor to set up a hip replacement clinic. He just can't charge above the health system rate for the actual surgery, only for medically optional extras. Apparently a hospital can get by at that rate, but your doctor can't?
Perhaps taking away the doctors' monopoly so anyone can do hip replacements would lower the price. After all, the government wants to get rid of the wheat board that 62% of the farmers want to keep. Why not get rid of the medical monopoly that 100% of doctors want to keep?
liberal supporter said...
After all, the government wants to get rid of the wheat board that 62% of the farmers want to keep.
That's a lie. The government is only changing the rules to allow western Canadian farmers to sell their crop to whomever they like, same as the farmers in Ontario and Quebec can do. Do you have a problem with treating everyone equally, or should some farmers be considered 'special'? The Wheat Board will still remain, and anyone who chooses to do so can still utilize it...they just won't be forced to do so, or risk being arrested and jailed for failing to comply.
(oh, and that 62%? That was a rigged vote, since only certain farmers were actually allowed to cast a vote on the issue. They didn't dare survey all the farmers involved, and they knew it. Nice try...)
Why not get rid of the medical monopoly that 100% of doctors want to keep?
Monopolies are always defended by the people who enjoy their protection...not so much by the people victimized by them...
That's a lie. The government is only changing the rules to allow western Canadian farmers to sell their crop to whomever they like, same as the farmers in Ontario and Quebec can do. Do you have a problem with treating everyone equally, or should some farmers be considered 'special'? The Wheat Board will still remain, and anyone who chooses to do so can still utilize it...they just won't be forced to do so, or risk being arrested and jailed for failing to comply.
They are free to farm some other crop, but those who farm wheat and barley have voted to keep the wheat board. Why does the government want to break this? It's no different than telling all unionized workers that all union membership is now voluntary, and all collective agreements that state the union is the sole bargainer are void. Why do you support a situation that will allow Cargill to play farmer against farmer? Nice try with the "equality" argument, see how far that gets you when you decide you shouldn't have to pay your mortgage because the existence of that contract makes you unequal somehow. The farmers in the wheat board voted to keep their wheat board. Why is the government interfering?
(oh, and that 62%? That was a rigged vote, since only certain farmers were actually allowed to cast a vote on the issue. They didn't dare survey all the farmers involved, and they knew it. Nice try...)
The only "certain" farmers "allowed" to vote were ALL the ones who are members of the farmer owned and operated wheat board.
Trying to claim "certain" farmers were allowed to vote, is like claiming only "certain" people were allowed to vote in the last federal election. Only adult Canadian citizens were allowed to vote.
Nice try yourself.
liberal supporter said...
They are free to farm some other crop, but those who farm wheat and barley have voted to keep the wheat board. Why does the government want to break this?
Still more Liberal lies.
Only those who farm wheat and barley AND ARE CURRENT CWB MEMBERS voted. Those who gave up in disgust and now grow other crops (but would like to return to growing wheat and barley) had no voice. The goverment wants ALL farmers to be treated fairly and equally, not just the ones who control the CWB and have a vested interest in maintaining their monopoly (and enforcing it by arresting, prosecuting and jailing any farmers who don't meekly fall into line).
It's no different than telling all unionized workers that all union membership is now voluntary, and all collective agreements that state the union is the sole bargainer are void.
Yeah, except for the pesky little fact that those unionized workers aren't telling all the non-union workers working for every other company to join their union or GO TO JAIL.
(seriously now,...THINK before you post, okay? I won't waste my time responding if you can't be bothered to put some actual thought into what you are posting...)
Why do you support a situation that will allow Cargill to play farmer against farmer?
Ah yes, the old Liberal fearmongering ploy. How utterly predictable. Got any more conspiracy theories you'd like to share? Who was really responsible for 9/11, anyway?
Nice try with the "equality" argument, see how far that gets you when you decide you shouldn't have to pay your mortgage because the existence of that contract makes you unequal somehow.
Wow...that almost makes your earlier attempt look intelligent.
(almost)
The farmers in the wheat board voted to keep their wheat board. Why is the government interfering?
The government is standing up for ALL the farmers, not just certain selected ones.
The only "certain" farmers "allowed" to vote were ALL the ones who are members of the farmer owned and operated wheat board.
Yes, exactly. CURRENT members, who decided to remove the voting rights of all the farmers who weren't part of their clique.
Trying to claim "certain" farmers were allowed to vote, is like claiming only "certain" people were allowed to vote in the last federal election. Only adult Canadian citizens were allowed to vote.
Yes....ALL OF THEM. Not just the ones who have voted before, not just the ones who belong to a certain political party, not just the ones who live in selected areas. ALL OF THEM.
(is any of this starting to 'sink in' yet?)
Nice try yourself.
So far mine are 100% better than yours, Libby...:)
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