Posted by Jean-Paul Martien on 5/4/2004, 11:51 am HEALTH CARE is said to be Canadians' greatest priority. Perhaps that's The Grits had what can only be described as a credibility meltdown on Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew appeared to have had an epiphany on "Public administration is the principle, not public ownership," he Alas, this rare moment of Liberal common sense came at the very same This was astonishing enough, considering that no one in Canada is more But, for Martin to pose now as a guardian of health care is beyond What's more, the Conservative position on health care is no different Both support a universally accessible, publicly funded system (apart And both support, as Pettigrew initially said, private delivery, as in But why let the facts get in the way of a good "wedge issue," which is After what must have been a sound spanking from Martin, Pettigrew In Ontario, Dalton McGuinty's Grits ran a smear campaign against Ernie The federal Grits have behaved the same way, showing tacit approval not The fact these services are working well and helping sick Canadians What a crass way to treat the program that's dearest to Canadians' For their hypocrisy on this alone, these Liberals don't deserve our If anyone's dangerous to our health, it's them.
Grits are dangerous to our health
Editorial - 4-05-02
why
it inspires the Liberals' greatest lies.
health
care this past week.
the
need for new thinking on medicare when he acknowledged some public
health
services can be efficiently delivered by the private sector.
said,
citing the Canada Health Act (and stating the obvious).
time
Prime Minister Paul Martin was ranting in the House of Commons about
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's allegedly evil, dangerous,
terrifying,
"scorched-earth" policy on health care.
deserving of the "scorched-earth" label than Martin himself, who
devastated
medicare as finance minister when he slashed health payments to the
provinces throughout the 1990s -- cuts from which the system has never
recovered.
belief.
from
the Liberal one, such as it is.
from
the 30% or so of the system which the Liberals like to forget is
already
private).
privately-owned clinics whose services are publicly funded, or
public-private partnerships -- known as "P3s" -- for projects like
building
new public hospitals.
how
the election-hungry Grits see medicare?
retracted
everything he said. But it was only a change in talk, not walk. Judge
the
Grits on what they do, rather than what they say (or shout) about
health
care, and it's obvious they accept things like P3s as quite sensible.
Eves'
Tories, accusing them of wanting to let patients "buy their way to the
front
of the line" -- totally false -- but once in office, they realized
there was
nothing wrong with P3s or private MRI clinics.
just
for P3s in Ontario and Alberta, but even MRI clinics in Quebec where
you can
pay your way to the front of the line.
should
be the basis for intelligent debate about the future of health care.
Instead, we get Liberal hysterics and smears -- because they think
that's
what will get them votes.
hearts
(and all our other body parts).
trust.
They have damaged health care beyond repair by choking off funding,
refusing
to foster productive debate -- and blaming everyone else.
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