The stench of government corruption — that’s why hospitals face cuts.
“We will see even more significant cuts to beds and staff and whole hospital departments, and the consequences of this are longer wait times, hospitals that are operating at over capacity or overcrowded hospitals, higher infection rates and more user fees for patients.”
Ah, the joys of socialized medicine — longer wait times, higher infection rates, and more user fees. Wait a minute…our health care is supposed to be free.
Meanwhile…Premier rejects call for public inquiry.
While accepting the criticism his government was “lax” in overseeing the billion-dollar initiative to generate electronic health records, McGuinty said new accountability measures will prevent a repeat of the fiscal fiasco.
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“A close read of the auditor general’s report strongly suggests that there may have been deliberate price-fixing and bid rigging at eHealth — bid-rigging is criminal behaviour,” he said. “If the law was broken, the people of Ontario deserve to know . . . what’s going to be done about it.”McCarter’s auditors found favoured firms were able to secure contracts easily, even if at times their bids were higher than the competition.
All the money the Liberals blew awarding fat contracts to their friends, and we still don’t have an electronic health records program in place. Everything is always more expensive when the government runs it, and the reason is clear: No respect for OPM — Other People’s Money.
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If the sleepwalking Ontario voter sticks to their predictable pattern of turfing each successive kleptocratic government that wears out their trust and wallet, the PCs will form a small majority next election – not that that will bring the changes you may want. The problem has always been not who is in Queen’s Park but who they work for.
You are stuck in an oligarchic kleptocracy that has been entrenched since Ontario was upper Canada. First you had a landed gentry class carpet bagging on crown land speculation while their family compact provincial goverments protected this insider cabal. That religious and political nepotistic oligarchy [family compact] government the early reformers like Baldwin and Hincks vanquished from provincial legislature just turned into an establishment elite of insiders who then influenced politics with purchasing government influence. Today this network is a highly developed network of senior administrative bureaucrats, public sector unions, government vendors, establishment and corporate patrons. It is this powerful insider network which dictates policy to government regardless of which political stripe holds power. Ontario and Quebec have lived under a unelected establishment oligarchy for generations.
The end product of such an established corporate-political cabal is corruption, systemic malfeasance, gerrymandered revenue disbersment, closed door governing and bureaucratic tyranny. Ask Randy Hilliar, he’s come face to face with the modern version of this ‘family compact’. There is no room for small players or the ‘unconnected’ individual to access the prefferential treatment insiders get in Ontario’s over regulated markets, two tier civil courts or patronage policy making.
Changing the seats around in parliament every so often in such well established crony-governance is an exercise in futility. It’s not the regime in power that needs changing, its the system they use to repress and steal from you to enrich their patrons and buy votes. Ontario needs systemic democratic reforms, open government and public accountability reforms, not the penny ante bribes (of your own money) and hollow promises these cynical party cliques toss at you each election.
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
Yeah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Where the Who psychic or just observant of modern politics?
Won’t get fooled again — if only.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Socialized one tier public health systems designed by amoral technocrats and funded by parasitic kleptocrats are nothing but a ponsi racket for vendors, Medical associations, unions and big pharma with an expensive eugenics program as the end user product.
I wouldn’t trust a political sleaze bag like McGuinty with a postage stanp let alone my family’s health.
The only 2 measures of cost-benefit health system efficiency is the cure/recovery rate and the percentage of premiums which get to service delivery ( money which is not sucked up in administrative and overhead costs.) We have had neither study done on a public health care system in Canada and there is good reason for that.
How much longer are we stuck with McGuinty anyway? I don’t know that replacing his government will improve things, but I’m sick of their total disrespect for handling our money.
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