On 29-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

But there is a national system of classifying medical conditions by priority
is there not?

Medical care is a provincial jurisdiction, not a federal one. Your ignorance
continues to show every time you post.

If doctors are free to admit whomever they please whenever
they please and do surgery on them, how is the system "socialized?" If
things are as you imply, it's a free market economy. Obviously, it's not,
because many people are complaining about their inability to get served
because the government won't allow them to see a doctor or go to a hospital.

Exactly who in the government won't allow them?

The reason that folks aren't being served is that the system is overloaded
in a specific area for a specific treatment. It is not because the government
refuses to treat people. Providing unlimited resources in every area is not
efficient. The taxpayers have indicated that they want to see better service
in many areas, but the politicians have been dragging their heels on getting
improvements in place. Most of the real problems in Canada's health care
system have been the result of right-wing politicians' meddling. Folks
like Mike Harris and Gordon Campbell have done a lot of damage to a system
that used to work much better.

Mike