This made me smile – Rebel Conservative students are now railing against Liberal establishment professors (Edmonton Sun)
Via National Newswatch.
Well, I tell ya, Sonny. Back in my day…
Sunday Update: Angelo Persichilli – We need a clear choice. He totally discounts the Liberals as a viable alternative for the moment. Ouch!
Warning: Going to a hospital in Ontario could be hazardous to your health.
Ontario ombudsman Andre Marin is the only provincial watchdog in Canada who doesn’t have the mandate to oversee hospitals, his office said yesterday. He can therefore only investigate complaints when the government takes direct control of an institution, as it did with Brampton Civic.
Or at least bring a bodyguard – “What happened is a nightmare.”)
(Caution – Don’t read the Globe report while eating.)
…Alberta, Manitoba and Nova Scotia have laws making it mandatory for hospitals to report suspicions of abuse, neglect or violence done to patients. Not so in Ontario, where legislators have tried to require such reports by hospitals, only to see their efforts die on the order paper…
Ontario legislators have tried to make it mandatory to report suspicions of abuse, neglect or violence done to patients in hospitals or other facilities.An Act to Protect Persons in Care from Abuse has twice been introduced, but it died both times on the order paper. A third piece of legislation that would have given the province’s Ombudsman the ability to investigate hospitals and health-care facilities also died in 2006.
Now why is that, George?
Sunday Update – Fixing a Hospital Nightmare – Sun Media editorial:
…If this is a system-wide problem, this government is running out of excuses. Of every provincial tax dollar, 46 cents goes to health care, a whopping $38 billion. That figure has risen 30% since 2003. For hospitals alone, funding has jumped 36% to $17.5 billion since 2003.There’s also the hated health premium we’re paying — although it certainly doesn’t seem to be buying us premium service.
Yes, the wheels started falling off the gurney when the Harris government sought to rationalize the system. But the Liberals attempt to buy itself out of the problem isn’t working either.
And this hospital arrived under the Liberal watch and it isn’t working.
What people who are forced to go to the hospital want is efficient service, the right care, and to get out as quick as possible — in better shape than when they arrived.
For $17.5 billion, is that too much to ask?
So how’s that cherished public health care system working for ya?
Please also read John Snobelen’s Two new hospitals…and a little bit of envy.
Maybe McGuinty Liberals should be banned in Ontario.
