Health Care Charlatan

Posted on Monday, June 28 at 16:02 by drcaleb
As Finance Minister, Paul Martin gutted a whopping $25 billion from health care and cut transfers to the provinces. As a result, waiting times increased by 77% between 1992 and 2002. Now Paul Martin is claiming that only he, the one who cut health care in the first place, can save our ailing system. If health care was so important to him, then why didn't he increase funding for it in his recent budget? Also, if this is his number one priority, why has he pledged substantially less money to address the problems with our health care system than Stephen Harper's Conservatives and Jack Layton's NDP? Andrew H_____ Ottawa [Submitted by email, but just one more opinion before you head to the polls :) Dr. C]

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  1. Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:10 pm
    Paul Martin has guaranteed you that you will wait five months for health care instead of six - this fantastic dream scenario can now be realized! he's been elected and everyone's elated! this is the very meaning of being a Canadian! it doesn't get any better than this!

  2. Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:18 pm
    No matter who`s elected, its up to Canadians to put ENORMOUS pressure on the politicians to save and vastly improve public health care so that there are no waiting times, just like the old days! We have to quit sitting around thinking that the government will just magically take care of our best interests! We have to slam our feet down and say NO to any form of privatization in Canada!

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    Dave Ruston



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