B.C. Gets Top Fine For Allowing Health Fees

You want to make Campbell play nice?

Forget fining the province of British Columbia.

Fine Gordon Campbell personally, along with ALL his ministers who are guilty of being complicit with his actions., and garnish the funds from his overinflated income.

Fine EACH of them with the top fine, without the means to appeal.

They'll come on side faster than you can blink.



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If George W. Bush and Tony Blair are really Christians, then pork and shrimp are Kosher.

I am wondering if $114,850.00 is a drop in the bucket, and perhaps that fine is
transfered to the players, perhaps they look at the fines, figure out their profit
margin and decide it is not that big of an obstacle? Maybe the government
simply does not care, as the poster above points out because it does not come
out of their pockets, it comes out of ours. Transfer payments are our money, so
is the fine, so is the healthcare fee, etc etc....no matter which way we look at it,
we pay.

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"aaaah and the whisper of thousands of tiny voices became a mighty deafening roar and they called it 'freedom'!"' Canadians Acting Humanely at home & everywhere

Which is why the fine has to be transfered to the "players" making the decisions.

Campbell might be able to take the hit initially, but I doubt that every member of his side of the house could do so.

And, as added incentive, for every month they stall, the fine doubles and is charged interest at prime plus 25.

And after 6 months, 5 years in prison automatic along with seizure of 80 percent of the FAMILY assets, not just their own.

No trial, no legal maneuvers.

Just herd them up and lock them down.

Show them the same "mercy" they show everyone else.

I think that would ensure compliance, don't you?



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If George W. Bush and Tony Blair are really Christians, then pork and shrimp are Kosher.

The fines don't stop the clinics but pass's the burden on to the tax payers. Campbell is a capitalist and would never expect corporate coffers to go down, when others can keep the pot loaded. The fines aren't an expense but merely operating costs.

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Expect little from life and get more from it.

What a sick joke, fine the BC tax payer who have absolutely nothing to do with the crime. Yeah sure, that'll make Gordo stop as if he cares.

Fine the f*'n perps!

In my opin the fine was only done so it appears action was taken so do not be taken in!

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"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

- Father Bede Jarrett
(with thanks to Willie T)

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Parallel system of private health care is inevitable

Given Ottawa's slap on B.C.'s wrist, it's a 'fine' time to take a look at the
future

Michael Smyth,
The Province (CanWest)
Published: Sunday, June 24, 2007

News that British Columbia has been fined $114,000 by Ottawa's
medicare police must have caused a few chuckles over at the B.C.
Ministry of Health last week.

B.C. was fined because of user fees imposed on patients by the
province's popular private clinics, where you can buy anything from an
MRI to a CT scan with a simple swipe of your Visa card.

Being singled out for this kind of slap on the wrist has become an
annual rite of spring for the B.C. government, one of the few in Canada
that's actually honest about the activities of private clinics.

In fact, private medical clinics operate in every province. The Canada
Health Act, which forbids user fees and extra billing, is being flouted
every day in every region of the country.

Most provinces simply don't report these activities to Ottawa. The fact
that B.C. does, and then gets penalized for being honest, is a joke.

But here's the funniest part: A fine of $114,000! What's the point? The
province's health-care budget is $12 billion. The amount of the fine
would keep the system running for around five minutes. {Snip} ...

Put them all together and what do you get? A perfect storm of out-of-
control, unsustainable health-care costs. No wonder B.C. Health Minister
George Abbott likes to joke that he's happy to be in the job now -- when
it's easy.

The bottom line: The centre cannot hold. See now why a parallel system
of private health care is inevitable?

So keep on slapping B.C. with those petty fines, Ottawa! Like the little
Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, at least it's amusing to watch.

E-mail: msmyth@direct.ca
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