Good STuff!!! NCC - great job. It is time for Canadians to also be free to chose between drug therapy and non-drug (alternative) therapy. We should be given tax credit for keeping healthy and out of hospitals - not tax credit for taking drugs. We are not proactive in this country - and that is why our Health Care system is dieing - costs and lack of accountability by the population in general is to blame.

There are so many things in Health Care to change & or improove;

1. People who deliberately abuse themselves to excess atrificially creating bad health such as drugs, tobacco, alchol, over eating etc., should be on a “B” list so that the healthier people who happen to get an untoward illness who are likely steady workers and tax payers, can get treated quickly and back into the work force to support the “others” as we are accustomed to.

2. The above of course would not fly so at least allow us to pay a premium for immediate health care at private clinincs if we so choose

3. User fees would cut down on a lot of silly use and perhaps a reward system for being healthy.

4. Support for the use of alternative medicines, much to the shagrin of western (drug and operate) doctors and the drug companies would also be a huge step to wards heath and freedom of choice.

5. More help to make being a doctor attractive, help with costs, special taxation breaks, insurance, what ever it takes, as beaurocrats and politicians can’t heal people with money (our money)

6. Policing abuse and over use by new and illegal immigrant s who walk right into full use of the system, would save millions and make room for Canadains, of course that would effect vote quantities.

7. Allow more people with lessor credentials to work under doctors in less critical areas.

8. Hospitals do not need to be architectual award winning buildings, when you are sick you only need a walls and a roof you are not on vacation.

Very encouraging news! Hopefully this is the beginning of a healthy debate– with eyes open and crap detectors on — that will result in needed improvements. When that’s done I hope you will initiate a similar debate on the true cause(s) of global warming before we waste billions of our hard earned dollars on trying to reduce greenhouse gas production.
Keep up your great work!

I propose that the NCC change its name from the National Citizens coalition to Naval Construction for Canada. Instead of applauding the finicky finance Minister for cutting taxes you should be blasting him for failing to properly defend Canada by embarking on a Naval construction program that would equipe us with the necessary means to defend our rights and property in the North. We need at a minimum 10 nuclear submaines, four all weather, armed and nuclear driven ice breakers, and a fleet of northern aircraft that can patrol the vast area and intercept those we wish to investigate. The $60 Billion he just gave away for no good purpose would have made a good downpayment for the program and if we had the guts to insist that it all be based on Canadian grown companies, it would have provided a needed boost to the GNP.
The time is now - our southern and northern neighbours are getting ready to take it all from us if we don’t act today!

There is an extreme lack of accountability with doctors and we can not let that go on. Although there are good doctors out there, the system has made it very difficult to weed the bad ones out. If a doctor is doing wrong it is extremely difficult for a patient to prove. They would need lots of money and even then to prove that a doctor has done wrong is difficult. On the other hand a doctor has malpractice insurance and many lawyers to represent him and many excuses to protect him readily available. There needs to be some support for patients.

Patients continue to be treated like a liability. They are not. They have value. People are the most valuable resource Canada has and they should not be dealt with as if they where easily dispensible.

much too much money is being spent on administration
ie, administrators receiving Millions with pensions while nurses etc. do their work. Recognizing all medical practitioners(accupunture, herbalists), Everybody has their place.
Addictions and mental health should be institutionalized and looked after better. Private heath care and private health insurance should be recognized. (One surgeon working in both places should be recognized.)
Mr. Cretian didn’t wait very long 24 hrs.