Comments on: Keith Martin’s Private Health Agenda. Go back to the Conservatives, Why Doncha?

By: ck

ck — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:02:37 +0000

The Charest Government here in Quebec is no different. Thanks to that Supreme court decision, Chaoulli v Quebec Gov’t., we have the most private for profit health care facilities of different assortments and doctors are leaving the public system for the private. Charest keeps sinking more and more money into the private for profit, thus making the public system suffer further. I remembered Shona Holmes going ga ga giddy on her support group on Facebook thinking our waiting lists were next to nothing because of our private facilities. Total myth. Waiting lists are just as long as everyelse, mostly for the reason I just described above.

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:09:24 +0000

I’m wondering how “privatized” the doctors of BC would want to be if they knew damn well that they wouldn’t get one red cent from MSP? As it is, their private clinics are pulling in public dollars…and in some cases have taken both public AND private monies! Nothing like having both nostrils in the trough is there?

If they want private health care, let them have it. Force them to sign an agreement stating they will never accept funds from the public system. That they’ll never use public monies in the form of grants to build, or equip their private clinics and hospitals, or to study medical issues. Too, all subsidies to their pharma buddies will also be cut off – no more funding for any of them. If they want private – give them private. As it is, Martin is like those in the insurance industry with their eyes on the prize – the HUGE profits they can pull in if they derail public health care in Canada.

Tommy Douglas was voted the Greatest Canadian, let’s vote Martin and doctors like him – the worst.

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:13:18 +0000

I cannot rationalize any argument for a private/public system. Not, not in my Canada. If we want to be egalitarian then we go all public and we make it work. If we invest in it properly and we forget the cuts to big corporations, we will be much better off.

By: ck

ck — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:22:18 +0000

He may just do that. He only won his riding by about 64 seats, was it? If he loses next election, it’ll be to the Harpercons anyway. I’m sure the Harpercons would love to have him back. One more easy seat toward that coveted majority.

Yeah, I know, he voted with the whip on the long gun registry, but Stevie spiteful has a gift with dah spin. I’m sure he would make Martin into some kind of “it’s not his fault”…”he’s seen the light…” “he never supported the registry, but couldn’t vote his conscience…” And other crap like that.

Good to see that Ujjal Dosanjh gave him that public spanking he oh so deserved. That may also be the push Martin needs to leave; being publicly thrown under the bus by another party member such as Dosanjh.