Reply #44: you thought pretty weird, dincha? [View All]

I thought that the point of taking healthcare finance out of private hands was to make it impervious to market swings and corporate demands.

Did it take you long to make that up and put the words together so it looked like they made sense?


If the big employer moves out of your town and half the people are laid off and can't pay their property taxes, do you think maybe snow removal services the next winter might be cut? Side streets will get ploughed only once a week, that sort of thing?

What do you imagine the BC government does when it needs money to pay doctors? Get the ink jet printers warmed up?

If a government's tax base declines, the services the government can pay for will be affected.

The "market swings" in issue have precisely bugger all to do with the costs of healthcare. The issue is the tax base. There are no "corporate demands" within 10 bargepole lengths of this issue.


I don't think decreased healthcare due to budget deficit is a concept that will help single-payer in the least.

And I guess all your public schools just shut down when school boards started not being able to pay for basic supplies, as many of them now can't. That public education thing was just an experiment that didn't work.


It's amazing the ludicrous lengths some people will go to when there's an agenda at stake.