Canada's health-care spending is expected to reach its highest level ever - $171.9-billion this year, or $5,170 per person - growing faster than the economy and outpacing inflation and population growth, new figures show.If you think that privatization, deregulation, centralization etc could be the solution - think again. The US, where most of the healthcare is privately owned and privately offered, spends an average of $6,714 (US) per person. To make things worse - no major political party (federal or provincial) is willing to consider an actual solution to the crisis. Their attempts to fix our healthcare system by throwing in more cash or by shutting down "surplus" hospitals amount to nothing but fighting the symptoms.
The Canadian Institute for Health Information study, released yesterday, found health spending is expected to reach 10.7 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, attaining highest-ever status in that category and leaving the country's beloved medicare vulnerable to cuts at a time of economic turmoil.
Imagine having a car that consumes more and more gas for the same mileage. Imagine one mechanic telling you to just keep pumping more gas, while the other suggesting that you remove the back seats to lighten up the car. That's what the "left-wing" and the implied "right-wing" ("Red Tory") approach to fixing healthcare could be compared to. So don't expect our healthcare costs to go down. Not until we start electing politicians that have the desire and the courage to fix what's actually broken - the social values and lifestyle choices embraced by the people nowadays:
...From no-fault divorce to abortion on demand, the government has institutionalized irresponsible behavior. The same is true with welfare, old age pensions and socialized health care that reward poor lifestyle choices by usurping responsibilities that previously fell upon the individual and the family. And yet we now wonder why our young people no longer grow into responsible citizens. The consequences of poor lifestyle choices are no longer poverty and social ostracism - conditions that in the past forced people to clean up their act and begin making responsible choices - but a lifetime meal card at the state's expense.One of the consequences of poor lifestyle choices is that our society is aging. Well, we all know what comes after aging, don't we? Isn't it the time we stop rewarding irresponsible behavior and restore the rights and responsibilities of the traditional family?
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