Uneducated electorate

[c9]

You know what's unfortunate? The 31,990,000 Canadians (roughly) who won't bother to read the NDP's 2006 platform.

(it's also unfortunate that about 31,980,000 Canadians will also ignore the other parties' platforms.)

Comments

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But the way I see it, in the current Canadian system neither kid has much of a chance. But in a two tier system the money spent to pay for the first kid's treatment can be used to buy a [insert name of a piece of expensive medical equipment] that treats the second kid as well.

I know that the argument isn't nearly that simple, but it's also nowhere near as simple as saying "two tier = bad because only the rich get treatment".

I think you should come out to Seattle in February, this would make a great conversation around a dinner table. :-).

[c9.livejournal.com]

Why do you think neither kid has much of a chance? The Canadian health care system actually works, and for the most part very well. Yes, there are long waits for some things. Yes, there are hundreds of changes that could be made to improve the whole system. But it's *not* falling apart, despite what Republicans, Conservatives, and capitalists say. :)

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't agree that the healthcare situation in Canada is as dire as you make it out to be, for one thing. But a two-tier healthcare system is less about healthcare than it is about the state-sactioned division of social classes in a society that is ideally supposed to be classless.

The rich are always the first to deny the existence of class warfare, while the poor can't do anything about it, and the (vanishing) middle-class finds itself increasingly marginalized.

Just like the case for equal marriage, "separate but equal" is neither.