My Love/Hate Relationship With Harper
First off, “love” isn’t the best descriptor. Perhaps “Tolerate” would be better. And it would have rhymed.
CBC is carrying a story about Harper laying the smack down on Ralph Klein over Klein’s infamous “Third Way”.
At issue is the ability for doctors to practice both in the public and private health care system and Harper, rightly, claims that it would create a conflict of interest with those doctors doing so.
“Dual practice creates conflict of interest for physicians as there would be financial incentive for them to stream patients into the private portion of their practice,” - Harper
That would seem like a rather obvious observation to make… yet it seems to have escaped Klein.
So good for Harper (*shudder* Oh how it pains me to say such things) for calling shenanigans on Klein and for standing up for the Canada Health Act.
If Harper’s environmental strategy is as negligent as it looks like it’s going to be, we’ll all be needing that universal health care!
Author: Mike : April 7th, 2006 at 11:07 am
I’m as shocked as you are Brad, but hey, good on him for taking the right stand.
Nice to see you back blogging.
Author: Sara : April 8th, 2006 at 9:40 am
As Someone who relys heavily on our amazing(but not perfect)healthcare system, i feel like a small weight of worries has been lifted off my shoulders. As always i will be keeping my eyes on Harper, i hope this stand will continue and no backpeddling will occure.