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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4829)4/30/2005 10:38:50 PM
From: SofaSpud  Read Replies (1) of 37634
 
It’s interesting how the Canada Health Act has become iconographic. The CHA isn’t what founded what most of us would consider “medicare” – OHIP, or AHCIP. The Canada Health Act was an initiative from the dying days of the Trudeau administration – Monique Begin beating up Alberta for permitting physicians to extra bill. Check it out – the CHA is 1984 legislation.

Read Liberal Senator Michael Kirby’s report. The objective of the 60s was to give Canadians quality health care without regard to the individual’s ability to pay. Think about it: timely, appropriate, quality medical care, to everyone. I don’t know if that’s what’s available in the U.S,. and I don’t care. I do know that that doesn’t describe health care in Canada today. I do know that there are families who cannot find a family physician; I do know that people are forced to wait for treatment, periods of time that exacerbate their conditions (as in the case of cancer patients) or render them invalid for unreasonable periods (as in the case of orthopedic surgery).

You have to admire a propaganda machine that makes people want to defend to their death the current regime. That convinces people that it’s better to wait years for a hip replacement than have to face the “spectre” that they need a Visa card for help.

IMO, with the money we, as taxpayers are spending on health, can do better. Alberta will spend $10 billion on health this year, which is more than the entire provincial budget was in 1989, with no better outcomes, and with longer waiting lists.
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