In an exclusive interview with PostMedia News, Romanow says he is worried the Harper government has adopted a deliberate strategy to leave health care to the provinces — possibly to foster the development of more private, for-profit medical companies.
"It will mean more privatization in more provinces, or some combination of private and public. It will be a very much weakened fabric of national unity without Mr. Harper's direct involvement."
Oh NOOO! WHAT ARE WE TO DO? My goodness! To actually incorporate EFFICIENCY AND to target PRODUCTIVITY, well, this is crazy talk! Recently, I spent 16 days in the Hospital. This doesn't make me a health care expert, but, I did see a lot of wasted time and energy by patients, and many well-meaning, and VERY talented Health Care providers.
"There's a question here of federalism and Canadian citizenship. Do we want to have the possibility of disparate regions in the country?
"This is a question now of how you build the country. It's federalism. It's Canadian unity. And programs such as medicare define what it means to be a Canadian."
You know, this Canadian unity thing ends up costing tax payers a LOT in taxes through transfer payments to the Provinces. If the provinces want THEIR form of delivered Health Care, then THEY should PAY for it. It isn't fair that Alberta should SUBSIDIZE Provinces that want to continue to have an inefficient H.C. system. Romanow is right when he says " programs such as medicare define what it means to be a Canadian." We are actually a bunch of "chumps" that want to continue the status quo. Groups like Friends of Medicare can't fathom the idea of really improving H.C. and NOT by just rearranging the deck chairs- (on the Titanic).
Big H.C. Unions and the NDP, want things to remain the same, they just want us to spend more money on an out-of-control Behemoth.
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