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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (8557)	2/22/2006 10:42:37 AM
From: Lino...	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37549

Thanks for making my point...as long as 80% of health budgets go to wages while at the same time efficiencies keep going down people will die on waiting lists. Work to rule campaigns are every bit as guilty as management here. And management has a tough time implementing change when they deal with radical/rabid unions. More common sense and less sensationalism is in order

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (8557)	2/22/2006 3:41:37 PM
From: seventh_son	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 37549

Without doubt, what a struggling health care system needs is the flexibility to make necessary changes, and unions typically oppose change. There is a lot of expensive equipment like MRIs that people have had long waiting lines to get access too. I'm no expert on this, but why don't they have this equipment running 24/7 -- no doubt technicians could be trained and paid appropriately to operate as such. That is what a business would do with million dollar equipment that people are waiting, or literally dying to use (no pun intended). I'm satisfied with public healthcare but it should be running with the same flexibility and efficiency incentive as a private business.