Well holy Hanna. Gordon Campbell, the BC Liberal (not affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada, but still, you know, liberal) Premier of BC, has outlined a general notion of his desire to change the Canada Health Act to accommodate ideas for better health care.
Isn’t that like changing the liberal-left’s version of the Ten Commandments, only there’s only five of ’em and they’re all stupid and were invented by liberal-leftists?
B.C. government wants Canada Health Act changes to help reform medicare
VICTORIA (CP) – The B.C. government positioned itself for a potential confrontation over health care on Tuesday, signalling it wants changes to the Canada Health Act to make medicare more sustainable.
In a throne speech opening the spring legislative sessions, the government said it will start a “provincewide conversation” on how to protect the public-health system over the long term. The speech offered no specific reforms but posed a series of questions that suggest its direction.
“Does it really matter to patients where or how they obtain their surgical treatment if it is paid for with public funds?” asks the speech, which was read by Lt.-Gov. Iona Campagnolo on behalf of Premier Gordon Campbell’s Liberal government.
“Why are we so afraid to look at mixed health care delivery models,” when they work in Europe?
“Why are we so quick to condemn any consideration of other systems as a slippery slope to an American-style system that none of us wants?”
Campbell and Health Minister George Abbott will also tour several European countries to learn how they’re transforming their health-care systems. […]
Countdown to lefties breathlessly crying that we’re becoming the 51st state of the United States and that we’re turning our healthcare system into “an American-style healthcare system” serving only “the rich”, in five… four… three… two…
Anxious members of Canada’s liberal-left, please just go ahead and begin setting your hair afire at this time. Screaming like a communist banshee is optional.
For my part, since I’ve been preaching for years about doing just exactly the kind of thing that Premier Campbell is now discussing, I’ll go ahead and do a li’l thumbs-up, just to myself.
And I’ll go through my little drill for the 900th time: Canada should abandon its failed, decrepit socialist health care which is driven purely on ideological grounds by liberal-left political parties which have staked their entire political reason for being on their stupid system working. And, an important point to note: they’re not afraid that private sector involvement in healthcare won’t work, they’re afraid it will work, thereby rendering their parties and everything they’ve lectured us about for years and the countless BILLIONS of wasted taxpayer dollars and their socialist philosophies …largely moot.
People like the former BC NDP Premier (booted out in historic and embarrassing numbers by the voters after a few months) and more recently serving as the federal Liberal Party’s Health Minister (yup—he crossed parties when Team Martin parachuted him in to his federal Vancouver riding along with David Emerson and likely promised him “plumbs”) Ujjal Dosanjh (who sounds very much like a communist to me) kept preventing—at all costs—an honest debate about health care in this country, during his tenure. He’d claim things like if we abandon our current system, then we will, henceforth, have an American-style healthcare system where, ipso facto, everybody will have to pay for their services with a Visa credit card. And children will die in the streets, and um poor people will die too, especially the “working families”, and uh only rich people and corporations will survive. Or some fringe leftist blather like that.
I kept saying that in actual fact, truth be known against Dosanjh’s will, about 28 countries in the world have “universal access” healthcare just like Canada—the difference being that their systems largely work, they almost all cost less, and in at least a half dozen cases, there are virtually no lineups. The differences stem from the fact that in most every case, they rely to one degree or another—or even totally —on private enterprise in their healthcare systems.
Of course I’d go a step further, and abolish the Canada Health Act and start again.
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