Quebec Government Says It Will Ask The Supreme Court To Delay The Effect Of Its

Posted on Friday, June 10 at 13:25 by sthompson
It said there is ample evidence that Canadians have suffered grave health consequences as one government after another promised to eliminate waiting lists, only to dither as the crisis worsened. The decision means that any Quebecker can potentially purchase health insurance for private health services immediately. In other provinces that have prohibitions on private health insurance, residents must either wait for their government to give up the fight and pro-actively drop these barriers, or else go to court waving yesterday's ruling. The ruling set off an immediate political chain reaction yesterday, with some political leaders insisting that the court has effectively paved the way for two-tier medicine. Besieged by calls from labour groups, public health-care activists and the provincial opposition to invoke the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to override the ruling, the Quebec government said it will ask the Supreme Court to delay the effect of its ruling. Full story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050610.wxmedicaremain10/BNStory/Front [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on June 11, 2005]

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  1. Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:26 am
    My Feed back on this topis is as follows;

    I seen the movie! now we get the reviews.
    more after the fact "reporting"

    Where the hell is "the Prediction Section of the news"? some of us, Morons, function illiterate, are the Indigo Ones.

    frankly I am able to watch it all unfold accompanied by music as in a a stage play, cause it is an y'all aint gettin
    it
    That is not to say ya got what ya got
    I read it here a lot.
    ya knows the ins' the outs' ov it all
    (Hint: read as dialect)

    As these situations play ou, and play out they do! because they have beem scripted to do so, for in some cases
    YEARS.

    We're NEVER gonna 'Head'em off at the pass.'

    doing it this way.

    i erroniously , perhaps to mitchou's mind, used the word revolution- because to me, i don't see our team 'the People' controling the spin.

    the changes design to benefit the carlyles, halliburton, et al where put in plce to do what we now see unfold before us.
    Fookinda!


    I am getting to the point where i say "SCREW IT!! Let it happen! Hell speed it along!

    take you paper money, cheques, credit cards, and return them from wher you got them.

    Radical?
    If thats what it takes, a paradym shift.

    Most of the historic "revolutions" were scripted too
    time for a new script fols this one is getting real stale real fast




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  2. Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:49 am
    You`ve got a point.

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    Dave Ruston

  3. Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:52 am
    Thank you!
    My hunt pec draft re-write edit formulate spell check find word-perfect and try and stay focused is vert very trying and yet I feel it important to bring to the fore that which I seldom, if at all, see.

  4. by avatar Milton
    Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:17 am
    This is like listening to delinquents excuses for why what happened happened and why there was nothing that they could do about it.
    Lets see now. The people of Canada want universal health care paid for out of their tax money. The people refuse to elect the terminator so a new scam must be launched. The business community feels that all the peoples tax money should be doled out to private companies in order to stimulate the economy. The rich feel that they should never have to stand in a line with poor folks and they feel that they deserve everything and more than what they already have. They figure that the governments should pay for the health care infrastructure and then turn it over to privateers who will charge extra amounts for services which have already been paid for and which poor folk will not be able to afford. The rich go to the front of the line and the poor go to hell. The government is not to blame cause the supreme court ruled that their laws had holes big enough to drive this disgusting mess through. The supreme court is not to blame because they just interpret the laws, they don't make them. If they (the corp.s) couldn't get what they wanted one way they got it another way. Big surprise, I agree with anon, this is a complete farce.

  5. Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:44 am
    Help please,

    Dio here

    on this evenings "news" broadcast
    the rational was describe thusly
    because there are long wait lists we will allow private care to fill the gap
    so tell me why are those gap filling private docs not active within the system to shorten the long wait lists
    the health insurance companies are partying down on THIS one I can tell ya! Put these money grubbing docs back into the system.
    Means test will take care of the free loadin’ rich

    Hell if the got the money to pay go to the States and pay. no prob!

  6. Sun Jun 12, 2005 6:29 am
    Canadians are too stupid and don't even deserve the basic human right of being able to take care of themselves - it should be the Nanny-state or nothing until death.

    If Canadians start to realize that government can't really fix the problems they are always trying to tell us that they can fix - then Canadians may well grow up to become rational adults and the Liberals would never get re-elected. The values of lying, cheating, stealing and corruption - the example Liberals set and promote as Canadian values would never become the norm, how would this benefit Party members?

  7. Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:35 pm
    "Canadians are too stupid and don't even deserve the basic human right of being able to take care of themselves - it should be the Nanny-state or nothing until death."

    Some interesting ideas here.

    1) Human rights are in actuality privileges granted by someone else, and must be deserved. I wonder who decides when we are smart enough to deserve to take care of ourselves?

    2) "Until death" - a word for this in olde french is "mortgage".

    You know, at risk of sounding classist, we might want to start our apparently desperately-needed reschooling by electing MPs and MPPs with a personal stake in the "consumer" side of health care, instead of those whose family health is pretty much covered either way and who probably stand to gain financially from privatization.

    Hey there's an idea: we CAN have 2-tier health care, fine. But for the duration of their holding political office and for a legislated period thereafter, no MPs/MPPs or their immediate family members may make use of ANYTHING BUT the public system. They must (as always) respect the charter rights of all Canadians equally, but while doing so they must LIVE as they would have the least of us do. In the software biz it's called "eating your own dog food". Then we'll get two kinds of politicans: ones for strengthening public health care, and ones with a keen eye for real public health and prevention.

    That was tounge-in-cheek, but the point is made: electing politicians who are unlikely to actually USE the public system they govern is, like the fella says, stupid.



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