The Canadian social health care system is going down the drain rather
quickly. Similar to the Canadian social education system. It is ok to visit
a hospital for a runny nose or a flu shot but anything more serious and your
rolling the dice. Most of the leading doctors have migrated south to better
paying positions, leaving us with younger doctors or many immigrant doctors.
Same thing with the social education system. These are turning into some of
the poorest systems in the world and everyone thinks Canada has the best.
Nope, I can relate this also to the lazy western slob workers, the
unionized. It just so happens that these two industries are heavily
unionized.
One quick story,, An good friend of mine works for the administration at a
hospital, they have 250 administration staff and when Mike Harris was
leading Ontario, he ordered a big cut, this forced the re-engineering of the
administration departments as well as other departments. The admin
department laid off 50% of their department and found out that there was no
back log, no dangers, no reason at all that there was that many staff. It
turns out that all those extra jobs there were simply there for the
employment and provide no value to the firm at all. Even when the staff in
that department was reduced to half, there was still some redundancy and
bureaucracy. It is no wonder why Mike Harris won two majority elections, and
union leaders threatened to kill the man.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm







"NOYB" wrote in message
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From the Toronto Star:

Feb. 25, 2004. 01:00 AM

Premiers fear collapse of health-care system


CAROLINE MALLAN AND DANIEL GIRARD
STAFF REPORTERS

VANCOUVER-Canada's premiers say the health-care system will begin to
self-destruct by the end of the decade without both an overhaul and a cash
influx from the federal Liberals.

At the end of the inaugural meeting of the Council of the
Federation,
the premiers demanded that Prime Minister Paul Martin increase base
transfers to the provinces for health care by $2 billion in the March 23
federal budget.

They accuse the federal government of purposely understating the
size
of the surplus and short-changing the health-care purse year after year.

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein said his recent musings about possibly
pulling his province out of the Canada Health Act, de-listing some
services
and forgoing federal funding has not reached the point of serious
discussion.

The Premiers agreed that Ontario and British Columbia will come up
with a series of research papers in advance of their next meeting in July.

The two provinces will present their findings on what is driving up
the cost of health care and what long-term funding is needed.

The two provinces will also look at better ways to provide health
care
in remote communities.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said in an interview that he worries
that other initiatives, such as a literacy program, an agreement to break
down inter-provincial barriers and plans to work together on emergency
preparedness will go unnoticed in the seemingly never-ending health-care
fray.




http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...=1077664212935

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No wonder I've been seeing so many Canadians in my practice lately.