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Originally Posted by rubecube
Socialized health care means very little when you can't find a family doctor, or live in a remote area where doctors won't work. Tuition costs are skyrocketing and the number of people leaving university with massive amounts of personal debt is staggering. In an economy that basically demands post-secondary education for even a mid-level job, this seems unsustainable.
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Not being able to find a family doctor is actually a symptom of socialized health care, not a feature of underfunding it. When costs escalate, not inflating the charge out rate for family doctors to match other health care costs is what directly causes the shortages, provincial governments do this to shoe horn their budgets. This level of detail is actually a provincial responsibility. The NDP support the same federal funding mechanism through 2014 as the two other parites at which point they have an open ended pledge to create a new 10 year accord (Again nothing different than the other parties). They are not in control of the details regarding how family doctors make money. There is nothing different there.
As with post secondary education (Again a provincial responsibility), I don't really see how the Liberal platform does less for students. I'll admit the Conservatives don't have an answer on this.
The reason why the middle class is shrinking has nothing to do with domestic policy and everything to do with global trade. All of a sudden, doing menial tasks at a manufacturing plant doesn't buy you a single family home with a big yard and a nice family sedan. If people want those jobs back in Canada they're going to have compete on wage and productivity with other places in the world. Of course in order to compete we won't see wages at a rate that can buy middle class existance in Canada.