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How Private For Profit Health Provider Rations Their Emergency Week-end Services–Vital Aire Edition

ck — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:03:12 +0000

Boys ‘n’ girls, get ready for a rant alert with a lot of 4-letter words. I should come up with more editions like these. I’m sure non-medicare private for profit health care services other than Vital Aire have been known to disprove the whole private for profit offering better service. Today, I will talk . . . → Read More: How Private For Profit Health Provider Rations Their Emergency Week-end Services–Vital Aire Edition

Uh, Peggy Nash, Just Because Charest likes User Fees for our Health Care System, Don’t mean Quebecers Support Them

ck — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:30:18 +0000

Well, Peggy Nash, whatever respect I may have had for you is gone now. And many thought that if she won the leadership, she would steer the NDP further to the left! Ha!

You see, boys ‘n’ girls, in some kind of misguided attempt to win over Quebec support, Ms Nash was willing to . . . → Read More: Uh, Peggy Nash, Just Because Charest likes User Fees for our Health Care System, Don’t mean Quebecers Support Them

It Comes Together Some More– IMF-Latest Player Sticking Its’ Nose In Our Business

ck — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:40:53 +0000

The latest player to be screeching how our universal health care system isn’t sustainable is none other than the International Monetary Fund–those same bastards who bailed out Greece and Ireland with the condition that they implement draconian austerity budgets in their respective countries; with measures that have nothing to do with debt reduction and . . . → Read More: It Comes Together Some More– IMF-Latest Player Sticking Its’ Nose In Our Business

Some Progressive Dems Challenge Anti-Health Care GOPers To Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is

ck — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:30:10 +0000

Yesterday, Jymn posted about new Rethuglican congressman, Andy Harris, who is typically against the Obama health care reform, bitching about how he would have to wait thirty days after being sworn in in January for his tax-payer funded congressman health coverage. Today, it seems that some progressive Dems have launched a challenge to anti-health . . . → Read More: Some Progressive Dems Challenge Anti-Health Care GOPers To Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is

I Think We All Knew This Was Coming

ck — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:19:49 +0000

It was just a matter of time before Liberal MP for Esquimalt Juan deFuca, Keith Martin would either resign on his own or get kicked out of Liberal caucus after shooting off his claptrap regarding private for profit health care, particularly after Ujjal Dosanjh publicly threw him under the bus. It was suspect when . . . → Read More: I Think We All Knew This Was Coming

Meet The New Incoming President of The Canadian Medical Association

ck — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:57:24 +0000

Meet Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, chief of staff at The Ottawa Hospital. I think I like him already. I don’t think Stevie “I think the Feds should scrap the federal health act Spiteful, nor the rancid Dr. Jabba the Roy, will, though. That’s already an upside. You see, unlike the doctor’s predecessors, he is for keeping our universal . . . → Read More: Meet The New Incoming President of The Canadian Medical Association

The Hypocrisy and Confusion That is Tasha Kheiriddin

ck — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:26:04 +0000

Tasha Kheiridin’s columns as of late really shows her off to be a wannabe, using terms that no longer exist, like small c conservative. No such thing anymore. And no Tasha, the Harpercons are not right of center; they’re to the far right. Right of center would have been the Progressive conservatives of days . . . → Read More: The Hypocrisy and Confusion That is Tasha Kheiriddin

The “Adult” Conversation Regarding Health Care in Canada-Rant Alert!

ck — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:28:50 +0000

Don’t you all just fucking well love it when these idiot cons always equate “mature” conversation about health care with allowing a full take over by the private for profit sector? The Americanization of health care is a knockin’ at the door and the “mature” thing to do is to embrace it, it would . . . → Read More: The “Adult” Conversation Regarding Health Care in Canada-Rant Alert!

Obama’s Health Care Bill (abridged) Passes — Updated

The Left Hand — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:30:45 +0000

Well it’s pretty weak beer, but the much amended , watered down, and compromised Obama Health Bill passed Congress last night.

Still, better than nothing I suppose. Like drinking Schlitz Lite, instead of Black Ice, or Bras D’Or.

Maybe that is what happened to American Beer as well. More on this when I’ve had . . . → Read More: Obama’s Health Care Bill (abridged) Passes — Updated

It Must Really Suck to be Mark Steyn, Silly Sally, and Other Anti-Help Your Fellow Man Neo-cons

ck — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:25:41 +0000

No really! It must suck to be Mark Steyn! I mean, the best he can do is sub in for Redneck Rush from time to time, deal with the crushes of the likes of Wendy “Girl on the Wrong” Sullivan and live in complete paranoia.

Between you, Silly Sally Pipes and other paranoid neo-cons: . . . → Read More: It Must Really Suck to be Mark Steyn, Silly Sally, and Other Anti-Help Your Fellow Man Neo-cons

Now Danny Williams Has Just Pissed Me Off and a Lesson Jack Layton Should Learn

ck — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:34:05 +0000

I was one of the few who actually didn’t make a big stink over the guy going off to the U.S. for his heart surgery, due to the fact many of Canada’s rich and famous go to the U.S. and Europe for treatment when they have the money to just pay for that extra . . . → Read More: Now Danny Williams Has Just Pissed Me Off and a Lesson Jack Layton Should Learn

Right Slanted Corporate Media Telling Us How to Feel & Think Yet Again

ck — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:10:20 +0000

Indeed they are. This time, it’s old health care debate on both sides of the border. Yep, Talkin’ about Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland. National Posties’ columnists are proving particularly all ga ga giddy over this with the phony outrage over this (phony for the most part any way). What’s worse, is they really . . . → Read More: Right Slanted Corporate Media Telling Us How to Feel & Think Yet Again