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Subject: Policy - Medicare this time.

Author:
Garnet Shoup

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Date Posted: 16:13:51 02/15/03 Sat
Author Host/IP: d-178.comnet.ca/216.191.241.178

Medicare is increasingly playing a role in the leadership campaign. The following is a statement by Peter MacKay as cited in the Brockville Recorder & Times for Thursday, February 13, 2003.

"The private sector can play a role and we should stop shying away from the idea and saying it can't happen," he said. "The private sector is already playing a role (in Medicare) everywhere you go. A lot of diagnostics are already handled by the private sector.

I sincerely hope that Mr. MacKay is in error here, but suspect that he is not. Unfortunately, he is likely correct and if you ask me it is a real shame. Our decision in this country was to provide health care to all our citizens - equally. In the extreme the effects of privatising health care are well illustrated by the following:

"The World Bank praises the privatisation of public health in Zambia: It is a model for the rest of Africa. There are no more waiting lines at hospitals. The Zambian Post daily completes the idea: There are no more waiting lines at hospitals because now people die at home." Originally published on www.portoalegre2003.org

Peter Mackay again:
"If somebody's sick and waiting on a gurney he doesn't care about who owns the place, it's how long it's going to take him to get service."

Actually Mr. MacKay, - I do care! I care because I don't want to endure whatever it takes to be cured only to discover that I am bankrupted when I leave. If that's going to happen to me I might as well move out of the country to where the weather's a lot warmer in the winter. I'll be less likely to get sick in the first place and therefore more able to foot the bill.

We should be defending and funding Medicare - not setting up two health care systems - one for the rich and one for the rest of us.

Garnet Shoup

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Re: Policy - Medicare this time.	Mike Redmond	12:55:10 02/17/03 Mon