The Winnipeg Free Press featured pro-con columns to spotlight a proposed “user pay” MRI service in Niverville, a community southeast of Winnipeg.. The “con” was penned by Michelle Gawronsky, president of the Manitoba Government and General Employees Union; the “pro” by Gordon Daman, a volunteer board member
Read more →Calgary Herald letter-to-the-editor Published August 21, 2017 Alberta politicians should press feds over health care Will the next leader of the United Conservative Party, if he becomes premier, have the fortitude and tenacity of Premier Peter Lougheed who championed provincial rights over natural resources in a
Read more →Nearly five decades ago [1969] ,the Federal Government created a public monopoly by effectively prohibiting private hospital and physician services. The result: [i] Canada’s health care system, i.e., Medicare, is a subpar performer; all countries superior to Canada have patient choice for private hospital and physician services
Read more →Alberta needs to be innovative and grow its health-care system beyond its 20th century roots, Canadians for Sustainable Medicare [C4SM] proposed in a letter-to-the-editor [“Ailing medicare system is looking for a cure”] published January 9, 2017, in the Calgary Herald. The letter was prompted by a January
Read more →Medicare has more than 50 years of history, misconceptions and mythology. It has has achieved an iconic status among many Canadians, as well as a certain degree of political correctness amongst members of the chattering classes and unions. Most recently Chicken Little and her flock have been
Read more →Letter to the editor, Edmonton Sun, published October 19, 2016 HUGE HEALTH COSTS Tom Parkin (October 16) asserts medicare is sustainable. No, it’s not — unless the federal and provincial governments in their current negotiations on health care spending deal with the realities of the medicare monopoly
Read more →Newspapers don’t print every letter-to-the-editor. Here are four from us that ended up being spiked. [In the good old days when typewriters ruled the newsroom, the news desk featured a nail-like spike for stories that weren’t going to be published.] Letter #1 Chicken Little and her flock
Read more →Chicken Little and her flock — who want to preserve Canada’s over-priced, mediocre health-care system known as Medicare — are again in full vocal rhapsody, “The sky is falling. The sky is falling.” Outside a B.C. courthouse yesterday, a handful chanted and displayed “greed” placards.The catalyst for their
Read more →Two Australian private hospital operators are set to be among the main beneficiaries of China’s health system shifting from a predominantly public model to more private enterprise, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. http://bit.ly/29xjwhc The story was listed in the July 13, 2016, “International Health News Briefing” published by The
Read more →“Should Canada have more private health clinics or services” is the question posed in the July/August edition of the magazine Costco Connection. It offers two opposing views: “Yes” by Jasmin Guenette, vice-president of the Montreal Economic Institute; “No” by Colleen Flood, director of the University of Ottawa
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