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Mario deSantis

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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960

The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991

The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002


Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign

 


I have been reflecting on my last article on Ken Fyke's prescriptions, and today I realize how deceptive these prescriptions are in obscuring the causes of our health care crisis, that is our decadent and ossified leadership.

Fyke has stated that more money in the system will not cure health care, and this is contrary to all the previous statements maintained by former premier Roy Romanow. And the irony of our social decadent predicament is that today we have Roy Romanow leading a $15 million Royal Commission on health care. So while no more money is going to go for direct patient care, more money is going to go for Roy Romanow's retirement plan to lead another commission.

Ken Fyke acknowledges that health care is grossly mismanaged and that we need to focus on quality rather than quantity; and in this respect he states that we could be saving some 35% of our health care expenditures if we could improve the quality of our system. And how does Fyke improve our quality in health care? Fyke improves our quality not in addressing the direct consequences of the present mismanagement but in reorganizing and downsizing the system at the approximate cost of $100 million.

Therefore, the possible consequences of the implementation of Fyke's prescriptions would be, more downsizing, more mismanagement, and more misspending in health care.

References

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

Actual text of the report http://www.medicare-commission.com/finalreport.htm