GM1-9

In reply to Ledavid http://cmatalks.blogspot.com/2010/12/gm1-8.html

To say baby boomers are waiting behind new immigrants without any proof or knowledge of the medical conditions at issue is irresponsible.

If you are accepted by the gov't into this country and become a Canadian, you get medical care. Period. Doctors treat all Canadians based on whose condition is the most urgent.

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GM1-8

We forget health care in Canada is supposed to be PUBLIC health INSURANCE. Meaning everyone pays a 'premium' through their taxes. So you have baby boomers, who have paid the premium all their lives, on waiting lists behind immigrants who just arrived and have paid nothing. That's a de facto reverse head tax.

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GM1-7

In reply to Blagger http://cmatalks.blogspot.com/2010/12/gm1-6.html

Not only reduce their salaries but reduce the positions! In a lot of cases, there are just too many administrative jobs that could be cut back on.

In regards to that, I sometimes wonder if instead of letting the provinces control health care, the federal gov't should. I'd like to think that this would reduce a lot of paper work and bureaucracy. Also this way it wouldn't matter if you were from BC and visiting ON and needed to see a doctor.
As Canadians we should have health care in all of Canada without red tape.

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