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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
I can see where you are coming from but I don't necessarily agree with your points. When we rank health outcomes versus what we pay for inputs, Canada ranks dead last when compared with pretty much all of central Europe. The good news is our outcomes are good, the bad news is we pay far more than any of those countries. The only main difference being we support a wholly owned government monopoly on health services whereas Europeans have accepted a mixed private/public partnership.
Government run businesses and services all generally lack motivation to eliminate waste. They are all incredibly expensive compared to private endeavors. Our Canadian Health system seems to follow these general rules as well.
I don't think there can by any rational argument why we shouldn't follow the European model as advocated by the Wildrose Party and try to improve healthcare without bankrupting the province.
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Is that based on anything in particular or just rhetoric? Everything that I've seen shows that private enterprise is no cheaper and frankly even posters in this thread who would vote for the Wildrose seem to note that point.
If it is indeed more expensive then we can only assume increasing healthcare costs under a Wildrose government, or a reduction in services to keep the budget in check.