[Northendzone]

to me this just all comes down to the fact that our public health system is currently not working very well.

and if one political party was to come up with fixes - the toerh parties will trot out the "they are trying to privatize medical care" cry to make folks afraid of any change.

I am not sure how you change the stress level of paramedics. They are often in the thick of accidents and have to deal with scenes that look like the start of saving private ryan. Would be hard to decompress if you had to deal with a couple of grisly accident scenes in one stretch of consecutive shifts