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The illustrious Mr. Dosanjh is at it again. Honest debate about the future of healthcare in this country? Never! Why bother having an honest discussion about what options are available when one can just toss around the usual rhetoric and scare-mongering:
"Ujjal Dosanjh says he is ''disappointed'' the CMA will debate the role of private care at its annual meeting this summer. He says he would have expected CMA president Dr. Albert Schumacher ''to be a little more circumspect'' on the issue."
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"But Mr. Dosanjh said it would lead to the destruction of medicare, and he urged doctors to exercise caution in reviewing such options.
''I don't see a great rush to set up private health care, because we have a very recent experience," he said of the Canadian public. "Forty-five years is not a long time in the life of a nation. There are people who still remember the dark days of private health care, where people had to sell their farms and sell their homes to care for their loved ones.'' "
Talk about laying it on a bit thick. But this seems to be the Liberals tried and true tactic. Why bother having a discussion about something as important as healthcare?? Its so much easier just to drop a few rhetorical bombs aimed at instilling some good 'healthy' fear - I mean look at the language he uses - "destruction of medicare"...images of poor people selling their house & children when they got the sniffles 40 years ago...gimme a break...
And why be "disappointed" by a discussion? As Minister of Health isn't Dosanjh's job to explore every alternative available to provide the best health care to Canadians? Shouldn't he be cheering the CMA on and encouraging such discussions from coast to coast? Or is his job to cling dogmatically to the status quoue, putting blind ideology ahead of discussing much needed reforms to the system??
Um...Unfortunately, with the Liberals I think the answer to that one is pretty obvious....
"Ujjal Dosanjh says he is ''disappointed'' the CMA will debate the role of private care at its annual meeting this summer. He says he would have expected CMA president Dr. Albert Schumacher ''to be a little more circumspect'' on the issue."
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"But Mr. Dosanjh said it would lead to the destruction of medicare, and he urged doctors to exercise caution in reviewing such options.
''I don't see a great rush to set up private health care, because we have a very recent experience," he said of the Canadian public. "Forty-five years is not a long time in the life of a nation. There are people who still remember the dark days of private health care, where people had to sell their farms and sell their homes to care for their loved ones.'' "
Talk about laying it on a bit thick. But this seems to be the Liberals tried and true tactic. Why bother having a discussion about something as important as healthcare?? Its so much easier just to drop a few rhetorical bombs aimed at instilling some good 'healthy' fear - I mean look at the language he uses - "destruction of medicare"...images of poor people selling their house & children when they got the sniffles 40 years ago...gimme a break...
And why be "disappointed" by a discussion? As Minister of Health isn't Dosanjh's job to explore every alternative available to provide the best health care to Canadians? Shouldn't he be cheering the CMA on and encouraging such discussions from coast to coast? Or is his job to cling dogmatically to the status quoue, putting blind ideology ahead of discussing much needed reforms to the system??
Um...Unfortunately, with the Liberals I think the answer to that one is pretty obvious....
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