Layton all for Private Healthcare

[Canuck E Stan]

"Our focus is to keep public health-care dollars going to public and non-profit facilities," Layton told reporters. "What happens with people in the privacy of their own relationship financially, that's up to them."

Layton said private clinics are a "fundamental aspect" of the health-care system founded by former Saskatchewan premier Tommy Douglas and not much can be done about them.

Layton not going to shut down private clinics

So why didn't he support the Liberals a couple of weeks ago if he thinks this now.Two weeks ago he wanted existing private clinics removed. What's up Jack, polls making you sick ?????

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Layton seems to be joining the conservatives, didn't he say something about Standing up for Canada? Good thing he agrees with the CPC

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Layton seems to be joining the conservatives, didn't he say something  about Standing up for Canada?  Good thing he agrees with the CPC   

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He woke up, got a brain, realized socialism dies 15 years ago, etc.

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"Our focus is to keep public health-care dollars going to public and non-profit facilities," Layton told reporters. "What happens with people in the privacy of their own relationship financially, that's up to them."

So why didn't he support the Liberals a couple of weeks ago if he thinks this now.Two weeks ago he wanted existing private clinics removed. What's up Jack, polls making you sick ?????

It's actually pretty simple Canuck, so I thought you could understand it... but maybe you're just pretending not to. Layton's position is and has been that no PUBLIC money should go to PRIVATE health-care clinics.... The argument with Martin a few weeks back was over Martin's refusal to guarantee that the $41 Billion announced a few months back would go to PUBLIC health care....

[sharkman]

I can't find any links thus far, but I remember seeing in the news yesterday that there was already some public funds going to private health. Has anyone else heard this?

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Layton seems to be joining the conservatives, didn't he say something  about Standing up for Canada?  Good thing he agrees with the CPC   

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He woke up, got a brain, realized socialism dies 15 years ago, etc.

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Just like Bob Rae did, he realized there was a problem and had to do something; something very unsocialistic (is that a word). I'm guess most dippers except for the most radical lefties understand that far left socialism isn't what its cracked up to be.

[justcrowing]

I can't find any links thus far, but I remember seeing in the news yesterday that there was already some public funds going to private health.  Has anyone else heard this?

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Private labs, x-ray clinics and other such institutions that exist across the country are private and services paid for by government. Think of physicians, almost all of whom are self-employed professionals operating what amounts to independent small businesses. Think of hospitals, for that matter, almost none of which are government-owned. Furthermore, any hospital that contracts out its laundry, housekeeping or cafeteria services is channelling public funds into private sector service delivery in the health care sector. Abortion clinics are private [Morganthaler] and services paid for by the federal government.

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I can't find any links thus far, but I remember seeing in the news yesterday that there was already some public funds going to private health.  Has anyone else heard this?

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Private labs, x-ray clinics and other such institutions that exist across the country are private and services paid for by government. Think of physicians, almost all of whom are self-employed professionals operating what amounts to independent small businesses. Think of hospitals, for that matter, almost none of which are government-owned. Furthermore, any hospital that contracts out its laundry, housekeeping or cafeteria services is channelling public funds into private sector service delivery in the health care sector. Abortion clinics are private [Morganthaler] and services paid for by the federal government.

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Where a hospital or clinic does not have its own X-RAY machine, it has to pay for private services. However, the NDP push is not to expand private services that can be or already are provided in the public system. We should be making our public service the best it can be. Public health-care is less expensive than paying for a profit-making venture, and therefore, we can get more, better health-care for our own money if we invest our public system rather than a parallel private one.

[justcrowing]

I can't find any links thus far, but I remember seeing in the news yesterday that there was already some public funds going to private health.  Has anyone else heard this?

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Private labs, x-ray clinics and other such institutions that exist across the country are private and services paid for by government. Think of physicians, almost all of whom are self-employed professionals operating what amounts to independent small businesses. Think of hospitals, for that matter, almost none of which are government-owned. Furthermore, any hospital that contracts out its laundry, housekeeping or cafeteria services is channelling public funds into private sector service delivery in the health care sector. Abortion clinics are private [Morganthaler] and services paid for by the federal government.

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Where a hospital or clinic does not have its own X-RAY machine, it has to pay for private services. However, the NDP push is not to expand private services that can be or already are provided in the public system. We should be making our public service the best it can be. Public health-care is less expensive than paying for a profit-making venture, and therefore, we can get more, better health-care for our own money if we invest our public system rather than a parallel private one.

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But we already have a parallel system and have had for donkey's years - does Layton plan on closing them? Frankly, I do not believe Layton has a plan only a lot of talk.

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I can't find any links thus far, but I remember seeing in the news yesterday that there was already some public funds going to private health.  Has anyone else heard this?

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Private labs, x-ray clinics and other such institutions that exist across the country are private and services paid for by government. Think of physicians, almost all of whom are self-employed professionals operating what amounts to independent small businesses. Think of hospitals, for that matter, almost none of which are government-owned. Furthermore, any hospital that contracts out its laundry, housekeeping or cafeteria services is channelling public funds into private sector service delivery in the health care sector. Abortion clinics are private [Morganthaler] and services paid for by the federal government.

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Where a hospital or clinic does not have its own X-RAY machine, it has to pay for private services. However, the NDP push is not to expand private services that can be or already are provided in the public system. We should be making our public service the best it can be. Public health-care is less expensive than paying for a profit-making venture, and therefore, we can get more, better health-care for our own money if we invest our public system rather than a parallel private one.

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But we already have a parallel system and have had for donkey's years - does Layton plan on closing them? Frankly, I do not believe Layton has a plan only a lot of talk.

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He doesn't have to worry much about it...