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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
What Kenney said was that the money the NDP spent on this lab should have been spent on a hospital, because that would address capacity issues and the money would go to treating actual patients. This is not by any stretch of the imagination a crazy or outlandish thing to say. Whether or not you agree with that difference of opinion about how our tax dollars should have been spent in this particular case, it's obviously not some "gotcha" statement that can be laid at the feet of the UCP as a gaffe or anything. Characterizing it like that is dishonest.
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Hospitals need doctors, nurses, unit clerks, medical technicians, porters, security, custodial, food services, supplies, etc. etc. etc.
Healthcare is a complex mess. It's like a rock battered passenger ferry in an unending rainstorm. And more passengers show up every day, wanting you to ferry them from A to B quickly and comfortably, but don't want to pay any more.
Do you try to bail out water? Plug the holes? Try to direct the falling rain off the ship? Buy umbrellas and rain boots for the passengers? Or just build a new ship?
The answer is: all of the above, but obviously you need to direct your resources where they are needed most.
I can't say whether lab services or a new hospital would help more, but they are absolutely not equivalent amounts of spending.