Bryan

Where do you think governments get the money for this supposed "duty"?

What duty? Nobody in my family ever did anything to any aboriginals.

They want her to shut up because she's lying. Lying about having cancer, lying about the risk to her life, lying about the risk to her sight, and lying about being denied care. If someone was telling the truth, there's be something to discuss. She (and you) want a discussion centred around a strawman. I prefer reality.

So do we. Most of our clinics are private in Canada.

I certainly do.

The issue with the contract with Maples was a different sort of incompetence. They didn't properly vet the facility, and only found out after they signed the contract that the MRI images were poor quality. The contract wasn't renewed because the service was substandard. The whole lot at WRHA should be fired, IMO.

Shaw spent nearly $200 million buying mobile phone licenses, as well as making substantial upgrades to their internet service. They made more money from their customers than ever before.

We've already paid far too much. Enough is enough. Everyone's family has a hard-luck "I was screwed" story somewhere in their past. Get over it.

I'm usually pretty quick to defend our system, especially when it comes to misinformation regarding it coming from the U.S. However, I see no problem at all with at least some increased privately run care in this country. You can't just open the flood gates, but things like MRIs and CT scans should absolutely be allowed to be offered by fully private clinics. I'm not buying the fear-mongering either. Even if the rich guy does get to "jump out of line" to get care at a private facility, that still means that MY line is shorter (so he's doing me a favour), and the public care facility now has more resources at their disposal because he isn't even using his healthcare tax dollars. That means they can hire more staff, pay them better, and get more diagnostic equipment. The feared "brain drain" is nonsense too, IMO. First, the market for that care is self-limiting. Only so many people are going to pay extra for the great care they are already getting anyway. As long as the public system is entrenched in law, the scales will never tip in favour of for-profit. Besides that, I think it's comforting to know that the doctors I'm seeing are the ones who see me as patient that they want to help rather than just another wallet.

I'm no fan of the Manitoba NDP. I think they are doing a piss-poor job on most fronts. They completely ruined one of the best medical centres in the country, they are making an absolute mess of the new photo ID, almost everything regarding family services is screwed up beyond recognition, they've hosed Manitoba Hydro, and the list goes on and on. Manitoba is still doing well in spite of a patently incompetent government, not because they have any idea what they are doing. However, jdobbin, your spin on this particular issue is utter nonsense.. FIVE TIMES as many people are getting MRIs now as were only a few years ago. The wait times are clearly marked on the website. The search bar is there right at the top of the main page. http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/waittime/ Googling "Manitoba MRI wait times" gives you the same result as the first hit. http://www.google.com/search?client=safari...-8&oe=UTF-8 If they were trying to hide it, they aren't doing a very good job of it. It is true that the NDP is not blameless when it comes to the increased volume though. They should never have allowed primary physicians to send everyone and their dog for an elective MRI. Those are the people who are waiting for weeks if not months, and they should never have been put on the list in the first place. Urgent cases still get them pretty much immediately.

The Conservatives are already a new party. So we only have to get the Queen to kill off the Liberals and the NDP to complete your vision.

Jennifer Ditchburn and her "unnamed sources" again? Come On.

Evan Solomon http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2009/07/15...#socialcomments

Yes, you are.

Moral of the story: If you're going to steal music, just shoplift it. Much softer penalties. Of course, none of this is a concern to Canadians, as downloading for personal use is not illegal here (yet).

Considering the "youth wing" thing came and went weeks ago, and hardly raised so much as a "huh?" in Tory circles, I'd say so. The full story is, one guy who is not any more involved in the party than he bought a $10 membership thought a youth wing might be a good idea, there really wasn't much interest and most people ignored him, then that guy started raising a fuss, and Liberal hacks decided to try to invent a controversy over it using made-up Facebook groups. That's literally all there is, and it was over weeks ago. Specifically because this is much ado about literally nothing, I expect Liberals to keep pushing this it. The fully fabricated in-fighting meme is their favorite.

No, they're just desperate and dishonest.

Actually, for the most part, that's precisely what they. Liberal shills, PRETENDING to be Conservatives, signing up to these groups just to try to promote the illusion of discontent.

It's a waste either way, and they both should quit it. It's not news though. I've been regularly receiving ten per-centers from Liberal MPs for a long time. Ken Dryden seems to particularly send a lot of them.

Thank God for that too. What the Liberals are demanding is insanity.

I'm absolutely in favour of of sin taxes. Hike those all you want. Make cigarettes cost enough that they directly cover the costs for all cancer treatment.

The posted wait times were actually much longer when we got ours. The list is based on triage, it's not a case of just getting in line. If you need it, you get it right now.

That's a very misleading way of looking at it. The unemployment rate implies that those are people who are actively looking for work. You are proposing lumping in all the people who either can't or don't want to work. If someone isn't even in the job market, what is the value in including them in stats that are specifically to show the health of that market? It makes sense that one probably should be able to calculate what that number might be, but it's a different statistic.

Even MRIs are nowhere near as bad as people think. On separate incidents, my son and I have have both gotten MRIs within a few hours. My only complaint about healthcare here in Manitoba is that the Province should never have taken over Pan Am Clinic. It used to be a shining example of how ALL healthcare should be delivered in this country. It's just another hospital now. Thankfully there are still other clinics in the city that operate similar to the way Pan Am used to.

Right, but it has nothing to do with the American system, it's just geography. You go where it's closest, it's guaranteed, and it's fully covered for everyone. If Halifax was the closest you'd there, it Brussels was the closest you'd go there. Besides, you act as if this is a common occurrence. It happens so seldom, that it's not even part of the discussion up here. I've certainly never seen it. Nobody I know has ever been sent to the states for anything. I realize n=1, but I'm just saying, it's nowhere near as common as you guys are led to believe down there.