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Nehkara · 07-10-2009, 06:25 PM

This thread is very interesting.

I think some people don't understand.

If the quality of health care is being adversely affected by poor decisions made by high management of the superboard, it affects YOU!

That's why the employees want to speak out. If someone at Telus is pissed about their boss cutting corners so that they have only 6 customer service reps instead of 10... then you wait on the phone longer.

If someone at Alberta Health Services is pissed because there is only 1 nurse in an ER for an entire day, someone might DIE.

You may describe it as a corporation but it is YOUR lives that are at risk from mismanagement. You should care and that's why the workers want to speak out.

Huge amounts of money are spent on health care and it is not even close to adequate. Not even close to what it should be. That is not on the public system, because that is done well all over the world. Privatization is ludicrous because the only system in the world that fails completely at health care is the US and it is one of the only first world nations with almost completely private health care.

Plain and simply, it is a HUGE mistake to cut health care because you just end up spending HUGE amounts of money to rebuild what you tear down. Ralph was not a genius as some people made him out to be. We are still trying to repair the damage that he caused to the health care system and it looks like just a few years away from taking the next step towards that repair we may see more cuts.

I'm really sorry that so few people here understand the importance of the system and I hope you never have to find out the hard way how important it really is.

I would also like to say to those b*tching and complaining about the wages that if the wages were not what they were, we would have no one at all because the US pays astronomically higher wages for most Health Care Professionals. Not to mention that there is a lot that health care workers go through that is rarely experienced in other professions... such as witnessing death and all manner of horrible diseases.

/rant over

07-10-2009, 06:25 PM	#24
Nehkara Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Exp:	This thread is very interesting. I think some people don't understand. If the quality of health care is being adversely affected by poor decisions made by high management of the superboard, it affects YOU! That's why the employees want to speak out. If someone at Telus is pissed about their boss cutting corners so that they have only 6 customer service reps instead of 10... then you wait on the phone longer. If someone at Alberta Health Services is pissed because there is only 1 nurse in an ER for an entire day, someone might DIE. You may describe it as a corporation but it is YOUR lives that are at risk from mismanagement. You should care and that's why the workers want to speak out. Huge amounts of money are spent on health care and it is not even close to adequate. Not even close to what it should be. That is not on the public system, because that is done well all over the world. Privatization is ludicrous because the only system in the world that fails completely at health care is the US and it is one of the only first world nations with almost completely private health care. Plain and simply, it is a HUGE mistake to cut health care because you just end up spending HUGE amounts of money to rebuild what you tear down. Ralph was not a genius as some people made him out to be. We are still trying to repair the damage that he caused to the health care system and it looks like just a few years away from taking the next step towards that repair we may see more cuts. I'm really sorry that so few people here understand the importance of the system and I hope you never have to find out the hard way how important it really is. I would also like to say to those b*tching and complaining about the wages that if the wages were not what they were, we would have no one at all because the US pays astronomically higher wages for most Health Care Professionals. Not to mention that there is a lot that health care workers go through that is rarely experienced in other professions... such as witnessing death and all manner of horrible diseases. /rant over __________________ Huge thanks to Dion for the signature!