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Privatization of Health Care: It’s coming
By Christine Cuthbertson
A recently released Senate committee report on health care said
there needs to be billions of dollars spent on health care. It also
said Canadians should pay through a new health care premium, with
low income earners paying 50 cents each day and higher income earners
$4 each day.
Where can a Canadian find yet another $4 each day, or even 50 cents?
I can barely find a penny for my thoughts. And that’s on pay
day. I am just fed up with bandaging the system and not fixing the
problems.
This is why I think privatization of health care will replace our
public health care system. It’s inevitable, folks. There just
aren’t enough pennies, dimes and nickels to do yet another
patchwork on our public health system.
It’s the parts that are needed. More doctors, less waiting
lists and better care for the patients who need the time and patience
to help them recover.
The report also suggested short-term home care, palliative care,
and limited coverage of prescription drugs. Isn’t that what
we have all ready? Having short-term home care for the baby boomers
could be disastrous since there is barely enough nursing home rooms
to go around for the seniors who need them now.
Privatization could help everyone by providing the health care we
need. Doctors would stay because the pay and hours would be better.
Overall patient care would benefit from doctors who aren’t
tired from long hours, and a happier doctor is a better doctor.
The senator who wrote the report, Michael Kirby, said government
should raise the GST or dedicated income tax to pay for health care
costs. At least Finance Minister John Manley didn’t have a
brain fart. He said no to raising the GST.
Thank goodness for a finance minister who can add.
Kirby went across the country to hear about 400 witnesses and issued
five volumes of research before preparing his report, said a CBC
news report on Kirby’s recommendations.
I just can’t believe he needed five volumes of research to
come up with what we already know. Privatization is already in our
country, with Saskatchewan and Alberta having private clinics across
their provinces.
It’s all ready here, folks, just taking its time to overcome
our lost hope on a system that has been in disrepair for years.
We have private dentists so why not private clinics and hospitals?
There is something to be said about the American private health
care system: it’s not all that bad.
The privatization of health care in our country is being thought
about by all Canadians, some negative and some positive. But every
Canadian is wondering what can help and prevent these problems the
health care system is having.
It’s time everyone confesses to thinking about privatization.
It’s in our backyard, and it will soon be at our doorstep.
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