What’s your health care priority?
Sex change operations - funded by the Ontario taxpayer .
Jeff Allen is discussing this now and I hope to pick it up again later. Just want to hear your thoughts. Personally, I think it’s a slap in the face to all those people waiting for cancer and cardiac treatment. I know it’s not a huge part of the health care budget, but I think it send the wrong message - George Smitherman is continuing to pander to his supporters.
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Update : We schmucks here in Onterrible seem to be the laughingstock of the country …
…Following his extensive research into the “sex-change” phenomena, McHugh ended “sex-change” operations at John Hopkins and has encouraged other facilities to do the same.
“I concluded that Hopkins was fundamentally cooperating with a mental illness. We psychiatrists, I thought, would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia.”
May 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
My priority is not that of this Minister that’s for sure. Most of my community still doesn’t have a doctor.
I’m one of the lucky ones who recently got a doctor but have waited two months for a referral. I honestly got better service when I had to go through the medical clinic and an nurse practioner.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
You must understand that George could possibly be thinking that he may himself want this operation. When eye examinations are removed for ohip and replaced with sex change operations, you know that we are in a deep pile of sh*t. George and his boyfriends are sending this province into hell and the idiots in Ontariooooooooo put them in power. What a bunch of clowns.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Not just eye exams - Chiropractic treatment and physiotherapy have also been delisted by Smitherman and Company.
Jeff Allen mentioned that infertile couples are still experiencing funding roadblocks and yet transsexuals get funding? It doesn’t pass the fairness test.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:00 am
As I said to Joanne earlier, Ontario will soon be a have-not province. It’s because of decisions like this that it’s well on its way. (Or maybe it’s only certain people that Smitherman wants to be have-not.)
May 17th, 2008 at 7:19 am
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