Monday, November 9, 2009
"Free" health care
H1N1 seems to me to be to be an extremely overblown issue, however, reports surfaced this week that clients of an upscale private clinic in Toronto were able to get vaccines for the virus before the general public. Once again we see preferencial treatment of the rich, this is absoloutly ridiculous. To me the one massive ideal that Canada holds true which makes us different to the United States is that of free universal healthcare regardless of economic status, race, religion or any other reason. How then can the rich buy better healthcare in this country? Slippery slope anybody?? This to me is truly offensive, and Il bet some of our provincial politicians are clients of these health centers. We are beyond overtaxed in this country and province specificaly, we pay dearly for our healthcare, how often can you screw the working class around. Mr Marx? Any ideas?? All I want to know is, when is the revolt?
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A mixed system of private and public health care in Canada sounds good to me when we're discussing life-deabilitating problems. You should have the choice to pay and skip the two year wait times if your condition is becoming life-threatening, or makes life on the line of unbearable.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think this is an abuse of the idea. If there wasn't a shortage, then fine, but I don't think private centers should be allocated any vaccine when not even the priority groups have got what they need yet!
Seeing that the rich are able to get these shots before other people is disgusting. I believe that everyone should be able to get flu shots equally. However much of these issues are because of the governments lack of response to these flu shots. If the government was more responsive in the first place we wouldn't be in this postiion.
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