Health-Care `Bickering' Will End: PM

Again we must remember watch what he does, not what he says...perhaps we should make it a policy to turn the sound off when he is speaking and just watch his body language...I'll bet the deaf community could tell us more about these politicians than the hearing community will ever know! We get so distracted with the pomp and ceremony being throw at us that we really don't hear the complete message, we have to learn to read between the lines, because you can't trust the print either, remember the reporter is transcribing what they heard!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

<p>I had a discussion with one of the NDP candidate here in this riding. We talked on the phone for a while about health care and all kinds of issues. <p>He brought up a interesting observation. He explained how polls regarding health care (whether people supported a universal public health care system). The poll always shows a very high percentage of people who support the universal public health care. Yet when election comes around the majority of Canadians vote for a party that isn't committed to this universal public health care system. <p>I like the quote he used when I was talking to him where he said his dad always told him <p><i>"Don't worry about the wealthy people, they already have people taking care of them. You need to worry about the poor who don't have anyone taking care of them"</i> <p>Kevin

Let us have a look at what the PM said about health care:
1) wants a 10 year agreement to deal with sustainability (funding) and protection of universality.
2) the Premiers and he are meeting until they reach agreement as far as he is concerned
3) he is prepared to provide more funding
4) to meet expectations more than money is needed
5) the system needs deep transformative change
6) waiting lists must be reduced
7) must have access to doctors, nurses and best equipment when needed

So if I understand what he said
- great changes must be made but he doesn't say what they are,
- he will provide more funding but more than money is needed but he doesn't say what that would be,
- wants a 10 year deal but does not say what the talking points would be,
- wants waiting lists reduced, more staff and equipment, I would think that more money would solve that problem.

The real black hole is "deep transformative changes", what the frick is that and why does it remind me of a horror movie title? How can you let a guy get away with saying something like that without getting some clarification.

I think Jack Layton should challenge him to pass legislation, before the meeting with the Premiers and before the next election, which would prohibit any form of privatization of the health care system for the next ten years.