Is Our Healthcare In Danger?

PUBLISHED IN THE AURORA NEWSPAPER 5 APRIL 2010 AS: A BUNCH OF COINCIDENCES

Ralph Klein was the Premier of Alberta until he finally had enough of not being able to convince Albertans that a Two Tier Healthcare System was the way to go.

Now we see King Ralph doing a TV show similar to the Donald Trump program where he is trying to find the Best Political answers in which they get money for the best answer. Global Warming, re-write the Canadian National Anthem, and other political questions.

How long will the show air before Canada’s Healthcare question is raised?

Stephen Harper is dropping the Gun Registry, I assume in an effort to make all of our “Gun Nuts” happy and get him out of their sites.

Then he becomes friends with archrival Danny Williams and has a big Seal Eating buffet in the Parliament Building while adding 50,000 more seals to the Seal Hunt Cull.

Do you see a pattern?

Stephen Harper and Danny Williams have a long history of not liking each other. Now they like each other. All of this just before Danny was scheduled to depart Canada and our wonderful healthcare system for warmer climates and expensive, difficult to get for the poor, healthcare provided by the Americans. Stephen didn't flinch. The Conservative Government on both sides didn't flinch. No one flinched except the New Democratic Party.

Remember, it was the first NDP Leader, Tommy Douglas, who created Healthcare in Saskatchewan. Since then, it has been an election issue and threatened by the Conservatives and Liberals with being too expensive. It has stayed because Canadian's refuse to do without it!

Now let's look at the world scene as it stands today: The Americans have dragged us into a conflict, which has cost us billions of dollars. Our veterans are being dealt a painful lesson when trying to get enough to live on due to the Conservative and Liberal Governments refusal to provide proper care for them. There are constant rants in the news about the high cost of Healthcare by conservatives.

Barack Obama is trying to get Canadian style healthcare for Americans. The Republican Party (Conservative) is trying to block it as best they can. They even use Danny Williams as a poster boy for how good their current healthcare is compared to ours. The Republicans would rather buy guns and bombs than provide healthcare for their citizens. They want Canada to do the same.

What are Stephen Harper and Danny Williams up to? The way I see it, it seems to be a move afoot to drive healthcare into the ground so that Canadians will beg for American style Healthcare. Danny Williams already greased the pan with his rant against the NL Medical Association and our doctors, who are very hard to get in the first place. Even the Minister of Health called them names, sparking a fight and a demand for Arbitration. Are (and you can judge for yourself) Harper and Williams planning to start in Newfoundland and Labrador with crushing Healthcare? Danny is so high in the Polls that even if he lost a third of his support he would still have a majority. Then the Conservatives would institute Health Maintenance Organization's (HMO) just like the Americans have.

Don't believe it? One word: AIRBUS. Brian Mulroney and Frank Moores made off with a lot of money just by buying aircraft for Air Canada. How much do you think the American HMO's, Weapons Producers, Drug Company's, and Republican Party would pay Stephen Harper and Danny Williams to buy American style healthcare for Canadian's? How much did Diefenbacker get for scraping the Avro Arrow, after which we had to buy American built fighter aircraft?

Healthcare started in one province, Saskatchewan, under the governing NDP. The Conservatives are trying to end it by starting in one province, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Bombs away boys, vote for the party that brought Healthcare to Canada, for your health's sake! But that's just the way I see it.