The Premier of BC, Gordon Campbell, who is a liberal, is touring France, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom, seeking to figure out how those largely socialist countries provide health care—using private enterprise. And how they all have better systems than ours. How those companies that largely run their system are making beautiful profits. And how nonetheless, people are being healed on a timely basis and in most cases there are few if any lineups and how they all have universal access systems that all cost less than Canada’s.
You see, Canada has a North Korean-style healthcare system, which was designed by and nurtured by abject leftists in the Liberal Party and the you’ve got to be kidding party. I used to say that Canada has a Cuban OR North Korean-style healthcare system, but I understand Cuba is moving to the right just a tad on that score. So I think only North Korea and Canada share a law that forbids citizens and their families from spending their own money on their own basic healthcare, by law. And all together now, chorus…. “because the state knows what’s best for us better than we do, you stupid beer and popcorn-consuming Canooks”.
So to encapsulate the story here, some of Canada’s liberal political elites find that we are so screwed-up, and our system now so deeply entrenched in a socialist ideological morass, that they now have to learn from socialist countries in Europe how to best engage private enterprise into our system to fix it. In Canada. A country practically created by beaver pelt-selling and railroad-building private enterprise and enterprising entrepreneurial pioneer families.
That’s your “progressive” for you. Vote liberal!
Meantime…
STOCKHOLM—Premier Gordon Campbell toured two Swedish health care facilities Tuesday that he says may hold some of the answers for how to improve Canada’s health care system.
Both are privately owned businesses that get funding from Sweden’s public health system. Their proponents say they have helped to dramatically cut waiting lists, improve patient services and reduce costs.
Campbell said the facilities, including a privately owned hospital and a large family clinic, will challenge Canada’s conventional concepts for delivering health care. But he said people’s concepts must change if Canada’s health care system is to survive beyond 2030.
[…] The premier said he deliberately chose those countries to examine for-profit operations in publicly funded health care systems.
Meanwhile, as usual, because the news media in Canada is so shallow and inept, they only really focus on an obscure announcement made in Alberta by Premier Ralph Klein’s Progressive Conservative leadership, in which they beat around the bush like pansies and never really quite get the notion of private enterprise out of the gate.
This kind of, well, Canadian non-action and baiting trial-balloon baloney-talk, has been going on now in Canada since I’ve been alive. I’ve come to expect it.
The headline is ominous: “Klein tosses bombshell into Harper’s lap”. I’d prefer: “Harper tosses giant bomb on insane ‘Canada Health Act’ and destroys it, thus fixing healthcare forever more so we can finally get around to building a great nation instead of flailing around like leftist dopes for another half-century”. But I know that’s too long.
Health Minister Tony Clement played a delicate balancing act as he answered questions Tuesday on an Alberta plan that would, on the face of it, allow queue-jumping by patients willing to pay for faster access.
Overall, the reforms proposed by Alberta appear to pose a much greater challenge to the health act – and therefore to the government – than those announced by Quebec.
Clement refused to pass overall judgment on Alberta’s so-called Third Way proposals, acknowledging that the issue is politically sensitive.
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