If he isn't supporting two tier care what is he supporting? I guess with the economy doing so well we can afford to cut back on the social safety net.
OTTAWA -- A Conservative candidate's suggestion that a private clinic be used as a model for health delivery across Canada prompted opposition charges that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to expand for-profit health care outside the public system.
Peter Kent made the comment during a recent campaign debate in Toronto's Thornhill riding.
He subsequently insisted in an interview with The Canadian Press he was not backing the contentious notion of a separate system of private health care.
His Liberal opponent in Thornhill and Green Party leader Elizabeth May countered that an expansion of private hospitals modeled after the Shouldice Hospital -- which profits in part by providing hernia surgery paid through the public system for Ontario residents -- would erode medicare and lead to a two-tier system.
"Thornhillers don't need to be reminded that the best example of efficient private delivery of public health care is right here in our own community," Kent said in the debate last week with Liberal incumbent Susan Kadis and other Thornhill candidates.
"We need more Shouldice institutes right across the country," he added. "That's one way we'll be able to meet the challenges of health care".The Liberals circulated Kent's statement by email and he confirmed them in a weekend interview.
Full story here:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/mobile/CTVNews/20081010/election2008_healthcare_tory_081012/20081012?pr=0
James Morton
2 comments:
Private health care is the answer: no man has the right to make another man a slave to his "needs."
The Canada Health Act violates the rights of individuals to freely contract with others. I have been waiting for 3 months for a referral to come through; yet, I am being taxed to support sundry low-lives.
It is unjust, viciously immoral, and every Canadian of self-esteem should be ashamed of himself for being part of this evil.
that has always been their prime policy, but they need a majority, and to dare balogun, or whatever ur name is, you just dont get it do you, the sundry low life is you, you think you are more important than the country as a whole, in order to have a just society, we have to care for everyone, including the poor, our health care is not perfect but at least all have access, it would be unjust, vicously imomral, to make that single mom you call sundry low life pay 120 to 180 dollars, to make a doctors visit for her child and I am ashamed that people without self esteem like you actually exists in this country, but then if you did not, harper would never bee elected even as a mp...
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