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To: i-node who wrote (405052)	8/7/2008 7:18:19 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576663

Every day we're paying for health care, yet when we go to access it, it's just not there," said Pelton. ... It calculates that at present rates, Ontario will be spending 85 percent of its budget on health care by 2035. ... Meanwhile, the average wait for surgical or specialist treatment is nearly 18 weeks, up from 9.3 weeks in 1993, according to the Fraser Institute, a right-wing public policy think tank in Vancouver. A Fraser study last year said the average wait for an orthopedic surgeon was more than nine months. Do you understand that there is a growing population of people in this country who don't have the choice of waiting for healthcare? They have neither the money nor the health insurance to pay for such services. Do you realize that people and small children are dying in this country from lack of health care? My God, where is your head?