Their current poll question suggests that Canada’s doctors aren’t already private operators—which they are. Doctors in Canada are private business people who bill the government for their services then pay their overhead and themselves. They own their offices and hire their staff. They don’t work for the government. They’re already private.
What the Globe and Mail is apparently incapable of explaining is that doctors are not, in liberal-leftist as well as North Korean and Cuban Marxist theory, allowed to bill “privately” for basic medical services in this country. They must bill the government —you know, as if it were a Marxist government. In other words, just like in Cuba and North Korea (exclusively!), in Canada, citizens are not allowed, by law, to spend their own money on their own basic medical care and that of their families.
Look at the answer to the question!
Globe and Mail online poll
Deconstructing the BS: I think it boils down to their use of the term “private practice” in the question: What they mean is “practices in which charging patients directly or through their private insurance plans”.
I suspect the Globe and Mail believes Canadians would somehow be aghast that citizens are actually allowed to provide health services as private entrepreneurs—like a business—and seek to sour that notion.
In any case, the Globe and Mail’s liberal-left readers all appear to favor Canada’s liberals’ and its North Korean and Cuban model which has worked so marvelously well here in Canada—to the extent that the World Health Organization has ranked it the 30th best in the whole world, and granny has to wait two years for a hip replacement.
But talk about obfuscating the question! Is it any wonder Canadians don’t understand the issue and can’t have an honest debate about it?
Vote liberal. They’re “progressive”.
Here’s a related article about the good, free-thinking entrepreneurial Doctor Don Copeland of Vancouver who wants to buy a medical clinic—which is perfectly within his rights—and the local Canadian Marxists loons are predictably outraged:
“Owner of fee-for-treatment clinic eyes public care centre”.
(You know it’s a Canadian story because they spell center like they’re in France!)
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