From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Re: Death of Canada (Was: Death of America)
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: The Bates Motel
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:35:10 GMT

cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
>
>>Write a letter to your MP.  Have your company president write to 
>>his/her MP esp. if the MP is in Cabinet -- on letterhead -- we 
>>don't make enough of a stink on this.
>
>why? so i can be labelled a basher of unemplouyment benefits?

I'd be proud ...

>you think they even give a crap? i'm only one vote...

And there are other votes that you can influence.  Why shake your
head and nod like everyone else?  You're falling into the Canadian
complacency trap there ...

>>David Peterson had a lot of spending commitments momentum going back
>>to the Bill Davis/John Robarts Conservative dynasty and couldn't ...
>
>that is bull. david peterson was almost as big a socialist as rae.

Looks like I can't help ya there ...

>>Health insurance.  In Quebec, private insurers have warned against 
>>any thought of reprivatizing portions of their provincial plan last
>>spring.  I've not heard a peep out of London, ON about reprivatizing
>>the basic health portion ...
>
>poor reasoning. the fact that they don't want to have it reprivatized
>is not the same as "instigating" it.

Remember my little history lesson ... Paul Martin, Sr. was the MP from
London, Ontario and crafted the Canada Health Act with the cooperation
of the private insurers headquartered there.  Since there was no high
tech medicine at the time, basic health insurance was unneccessary
anyways and everyone could get by paying cash (I'm now 30 and I even
remember those days ...).  Things have changed since then ...

>misleading anyway. the reason they are not interested in reprivatization
>is that it would be accompanied by a slew of regulations. in other
>words, it wouldn't be true privatization: the gov't would say
>to the companies: "ok, you guys provide insurance, but use our
>rules, don't dare not cover anyone because it's their fundamental
>right, and try not to make any money -- it makes us look bad". 
>if you don't believe this, look at car insurance.

Even American private insurance is now saying that this will be
necessary (they're now feeling the heat from pseudo-socialized
medicine HMO programs, with accountants and lawyers breathing
down the doctors' necks like in Britain with their district NHS
bureaucrats ... we don't have that in Canada, we don't have any
socialized medicine).  They're dealing their cards carefully.

>>Did you ever look for an R&D job in the mid-80's?
>
>you are living in a dream world. you sound like george bush a year ago.

Sorry, I've got a batch of notes in my jobhunting file(s) that say
otherwise.  Sounds like you never did check out the Canadian high
tech job market in the mid-80's (I'm talking development, not just
hooking up RS232 to a couple of PC's and a ribbon in the printer).

gld
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