Debate over its future lingers in background as two-tier system gains appeal among patients
Queen's Park Bureau
It was an icy Feb. 3 when Graham Martin slipped and fell hard on his elbow, jamming his arm up into his shoulder and painfully tearing a tendon and shoulder muscles.
Martin, a police officer, was feeding the horses at his country home overlooking Sturgeon Lake near Fenelon Falls when the accident happened.
The nagging injury has pushed the 55-year-old – who might not get surgery until he's 57 – squarely into the debate about Canada's medicare system.
"I want a refund on the $1,100 we pay in Ontario health-care premiums every year," says Martin, who's been advised to look elsewhere in the province for a faster trip to the operating room.
$1,100? For a year???? How much did you pay in health insurance premiums last year? I am guessing it was much more than $1,100.
Mr. Martin could come south to the good ol' USA anytime he wanted to and have his operationa. What's that Mr. Martin? Can't afford US medicine? Neither can we, and that is why you don't want a two tier system, which is just a polite word for Jim Crow medicine.
There is a great deal of US money with a vested interest in undermining Canadian confidence in their system. Let us hope they resist.
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Oh, yes!
And the Canadian Medical Association has a leader who is pretty much openly against the system as being a violation of his liberty.
And there's the whole "knee-jerk anti-American" guilt trip laid on anyone who believes that the US system is broken. "Oh, we can do private medecine better." That's also part of the willingness to elect a neocon government. "Oh, our neocons will be better than their neocons..."