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

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

The problem with sidestepping the system if you have the money is that it does nothing to help fix the existing system. It funnels money and expertise AWAY from the existing system and into the private system (cynically, I believe that even doctors will follow money if private healthcare pays better than public).

[joecdn.livejournal.com]

None of the clinics in BC are staffed entirely by doctors that don't also work in the hospitals. Basically the clinics supplement the hospitals, in the sense that the doctors in the private clinics are just OR docs that can't get surgical time in the hospital, due to a lack of space.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

That's now, with private clinics being held in check. If the checks are removed, you'll see some of those doctors preferring to work in clincs because they're better funded, better staffed, and better equipped. The money flowing to them is less money that could flow into the public system. The public system weakens, the private system grows, and eventually we're in the same situation as the Americans.

[p00kster.livejournal.com]

I'd speculate that the doctors in these private clinics are doctors who simply want to make more money. I have yet to meet a doctor who wants a private system for any other reason.