Commentary
It seems finally to have dawned on Ontario’s political leadership that our crumbling health-care system is crumbling. Brilliant. You learned a simple word and after 40 years of denying waiting lists existed while promising to fix them and failing miserably, recognized an obvious situation. You must have an IQ of 16.
Unfair, you say? They have a plan? Bosh. There’s just five pious wishes for desirable outcomes like “providing the right care in the right place” and “reducing surgical waitlists” followed by arm-waving gooblahoy.
Essentially the “plan” is to have socialism work this time. And the herd of independent minds is stampeding that way, again. For instance CTV’s “’I thought I might die at home’: Canada’s health-care system is crumbling, experts say” is one of six million hits I got by Googling “Canada health care crumbling.” And these experts must be very smart to diagnose acute crumbolism when the only symptom is a woman in excruciating pain being told her provincial virtual health line had a 9-hour wait to speak to a nurse, she called 911 and no ambulance came, and the ER wait was projected at 16 hours if she dragged herself there….