Re: Leftism or rightism, when developed to the extreme, becomes of each other.

From: Scream Machine <shake_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:17:24 GMT

I can't remember where I read it, but I read somewhere that the heavy users of the Canadian healthcare system are newcomers to Canada (immigrants). Can anyone confirm this?
I'm just curious as to know if this has anything to do with the push for a more privatized user-pay system.
The breakdown of communities in free-market societies is quite apparent - ie. New York where everyone is trigger-happy rude. Home builders and developers routinely produce seductive ads selling the idea of a happy picket-fenced utopian community, where everyone knows each other, and all unified happily together. And in the US, "gated-communities" are all the rage - a feeble attempt to create the illusion of what community once was - the idea of security, and everyone knowing each other as one big happy tribe. With capitalism and market economics, "community" has been obliterated.

Has the breakdown of the community and the loss of cohesion (with multiculturalism) had anything to do with this desire or move for privatized health-care?

"francispoon" <fyfpoon_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:936eaee8.0408260938.58dbc9a7_at_posting.google.com...
> The social medical care system in BC of Canada has been falling into
> pieces. A simple operation takes about 6 months of waiting in line.
> Against this background, the BC government lately succumbs to the
> innovative approach of farming out operations to the private clinics.
> This is the first step in the right direction in terms of setting free
> market forces. We call the fallout in BC medical system a legacy of
> 'socialism'. However, the policy makers who did this years ago did so
> out of the noble intention of achieving social equality.
>
> On the other hand, under the 'rightist' government of Bush, the
> seniors are paying as much as US$300 for their monthly high blood
> pressure medicine. The price is so high because of the formation of
> oligopoly by the pharmacy cartel. The later has been a large fund
> contributor to the Bush campaigne. The pharmacy companies have done
> that out of 'ignoble' intention to screw the elderly for their own
> profit.
>
> In conclusion, both leftists and rightists are capable of obstructing
> market forces. While the former do so out of ignorance but _noble_
> intentions, the latter out of smart manipulation but _ignoble_
> intention.
>
>
> FP
Received on Sat Aug 28 2004 - 12:17:24 PDT