The Deception About Canada's Inability To Fund Our Once Proud Medical Care Syste

Dosanjh's Biggest Donors Run Medical Firms<br />
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<a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/01/12/DonorsRunMedicalFirms/">http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/01/12/DonorsRunMedicalFirms/</a>

More than two years after the B.C. legislature was raided by police,
a trial date of April 24, 2006 has finally been set for three former
government employees.

Charges of accepting a bribe, influence peddling, breach of trust
and fraud were laid a year after police raided offices in the
legislature in December 2003.

Dave Basi was the ministerial assistant to former finance minister
Gary Collins.

Aneal Basi is a former government communications worker, and
Bob Virk worked for then transportation minister Judith Reid.

"On being accused of having caused the current crisis in health care funding by slashing funding in his budgets, Paul Martin said, "The fact is that we had to do that. And I don't back down from that one bit. If we had not taken the action that we did in 1995, we would be Argentina today." (The Globe and Mail, May 26,2004 p.A6) "

Funny, Argentina did everything the world bank and IMF wanted and it melted down their economy. Today, after they told those two US corporations to "get stuffed", their growth and poverty reduction achievements are astounding!

Yet people keep eating up the "Do it faster, do it deeper" mantra that ruined Argentina, Korea, and a myriad of other countries around the world. The only ones now thriving are the ones that did as Argentina did, go their own way and tell the globalizers to get lost.

Our universal medical care is in a crisis for multiple reasons including because allopathic medicine is in shambles, as it is increasingly controlled and directed by greedy pharmaceutical corporations and high tech out to make a buck.

In BC at least the system is also in a shambles thanks to BC Liberal mismanagement, including their ideological drive to push public-private partnerships known to increase costs and reduce services.

I don't know if this the same outside of BC, but for any of us in BC who choose a naturopath, homoepath, TCM practicioner or even a psychologist over a pill pushing psychiatrist, we already pay out of pocket and face a two tiered system. Recognizing modalities other than the allopathic would save money and improve the nation's health.

Major resources need to be put into prevention to educate people about lifestyle and diet so that we are not facing rising numbers of people with illnesses and conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and obesity. Scandanavians could be our model of health rather than American shoppers. If we can't reach the parents filling the shopping cart with processed junk and aspartame/sugar water, let us at least reach the kids.

Iatrogenocide -- doctor caused death -- is a leading cause of death in North America. There is no excuse for this and part of addressing problems in medical care will mean confronting this. The last thing we need to do is throw more money at useless screening tests and pharmaceuticals -- in this day and age of polypharmacy, drugs are given to treat side effects of drugs given to treat side effects of drugs given.... It is lunacy driven by greed and ignorance.

Given research shows that vitamin A can treat avian flu, why exactly did Canada stockpile Tamiflu, now proven to be useless, and particularly in a form that expires so quickly it never did have much chance of being used?

It is stupidity to throw more money at lunacy or blame the mess simply on cutbacks. We need radical change.

Jack Layton went to private health clinic!<br />
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<a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ee02f15a-e64c-4d4f-a7c2-24e0381ba5cd&k=98664">http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ee02f15a-e64c-4d4f-a7c2-24e0381ba5cd&k=98664</a>

An interesting add-on to this comment is the story of Malaysia. After the asian currency crisis of the 1990s, the IMF came to them with their usual conditions to surrending everything to the "free market." Malaysia rejected the IMF and subsequently its economy suffered less and recovered more quickly. Incidentally, the asian crisis was chiefly caused by IMF policies in the first place, as this book review makes clear. <a href="http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/book_reviews/3132malaysia_v_imf.html">Malaysia's Challenge to IMF:A Lesson on Method</a>. <p> What's is more important to this story is that Paul Martin voluntarily (or in his words, "we had to do that") adopted such destructive IMF policies. As well, it is notable that Canada has the same do-nothing policies with regards to foreign investment that contributed to the Asian crisis.

And speaking of which...here is the very latest on Canada's deception aboot it's "health Care" system of debauchery...<br />
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<a href="http://northamericans4peace.blogspot.com/2005/06/medical-ineptness-and-mistakes-3rd.html">http://northamericans4peace.blogspot.com/2005/06/medical-ineptness-and-mistakes-3rd.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1117582694396_9">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1117582694396_9</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050406/surgery_waits_050406/TopStories?s_name=&no_ads">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050406/surgery_waits_050406/TopStories?s_name=&no_ads</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060115/hospital_infections_060115/20060116?hub=Health">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060115/hospital_infections_060115/20060116?hub=Health</a><br />
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OMG!!! Disgusting...true third world conditions...the squalid conditions are beyond reasoning people's ability to comprehend : ( ...

WOW. Amazing stuff. Why are things so bad I wonder?

because they don't want to talk aboot it, and they wish to keep their dirty little secret hidden (eh)...so no one will know...and they can continue to bray on aboot how great they are...eh...