Health Minister Mark Holland says the remaining nine health transfer deals should be complete over the next two months, a year after the program received a major expansion.
Tax the wealthy. If we want to fix this problem money has to come from somewhere. The middle class any poor have nothing left to give. I don’t know why it’s so difficult for our government to have the spine to do it.
Privatization is the goal … it’s like trying to talk to the arsonist and asking them how they are going to solve the random house burning problem around town.
People can’t see a family doctor and ERs are overcrowded, and the solution is to incent doctors (or rather, corporations that will employ doctors) into lucrative practices that we don’t have much of a wait list on, anyway.
At least as far as Ontario goes, this is the 407 or LTC homes all over again: it doesn’t make any sense, socially or economically, but it sure will make rich people richer. I mean, I’m sure it’s no coincidence that Loblaw is Deco Labels’ largest customer, just like it’s no coincidence that Mike Harris ended up on Chartwell’s board of directors.
I think voting for ministers directly would have to a part of electoral reform. A lot of people who don’t vote for the only party that safeguards and advances public health care, the NDP, would vote for Health Ministers that are for universal health care.
