Something About Health Care

NDP Leader Jack Layton says that he is going to meet with the Prime Minister to discus private health care in Canada. The Globe and Mail quoted Layton as saying: "The first step has got to be for them to agree that we actually have the growth of private, for-profit medicare and medicine in this country which clearly we do." Isn't it funny how the rise in private health care has come under a Liberal government? In his final election campaign, Jean Chretien used private health care to scare people from voting for the Conservatives. He claimed that if a Conservative government was at the wheel we would have to deal with a two-teir health care system. Do you remember Chretien's debate with Stockwell Day during that election? Day actually brought in a cardboard sign that read "No Two-Tier." Chretien focused his entire campaign on stopping the Conservative's and their two-tier "hidden agenda." It's pathetic that during every election the Liberal's will slam the Conservatives for their ideas and, when re-elected, welcome those same ideas with open arms.