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

[joecdn.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of the problem however also has to do with people abusing the system. I know here in Vancouver, they're planning on building an emergency ward in the downtown eastside just to deal with all the "problems" that the vagrants seem to have. There's the mothers as well that'll take their kids to the hospital every time they have a little nosebleed. That pisses me off!!! People need to only go the hospital if they're having a procedure or if they have a medical EMERGENCY...such as if you've broken something, or need stiches, or are having chest pains or something. Don't go to the hospital for a cough, a runny nose or a small cut. Get some bandaids, some benadryl and some claritin, and deal with it at home. Even going to the doctor's office for those things is stupid.

Anyways, an aside to all this - my grandpa was having some "mini-strokes" a few years ago, and they weren't able to properly diagnose his condition up here. He kept having his episodes. He had to visit a specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix to be properly diagnosed, and treated. What does that say about our current system?? I don't think that people, and their families should have to go through such turmoil to get appropriate medical care in this country.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I totally agree that people should not have to go through long waits, or travel 2000km to get diagnosed.

But on the flipside, imagine your grandfather were going through that same situation, but there were a bunch of rich people paying to butt in front of him in line? I fear that might happen in smaller centres, where there's not enough business to build a whole extra hospital.

[p00kster.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the people are "abusing" the system because they don't have family doctors or don't have access to a primary health team? It's just a matter of reorganizing our resources a little. Ontario is currently in the process of creating these teams to cut down on more costly things like ER visits.