🚀 go-pugleaf

I have to agree that the way the government handled this entire situation
was disgraceful.  I beleive that our medical system is an essential service
in our province, and that it should be maintained.  Medical services should
NEVER be available only to those who can afford them, they should be 
available to ALL people without user fees.  Personally, if it takes higher
taxes to cover them, I for one am willing to pay them, and I don't give a
rats ass if I'm paying more than another person to support the system.

As a society we have to ask ourselves if we have a moral obligation to
provide medical services for all people, and if we decide that we do, we
should do everything in our power to make it happen.

There has been some talk in this thread about abuses to the system by users,
but I have heard no talk about abuses by doctors.  For instance, a friend of
mine who used to be an ECU nurse at VGH tells me that some doctors refuse to
preform any surgury except emergency surgery during the day, and attributes 
this to the fact that doctors get paid twice thier normal fee for working after
hours.  Is this true?  Can anyone verify this or deny it?  I for one am 
curious as hell.  Because if it's true it means that there are doctors out
there who are abusing the system as well, and something should damn well be
done about it, just the same as something should be done to collect from users
who abuse the system.

Doctors who are preforming their jobs however, honestly, and effectively
SHOULD be paid damn well, and the BC government should be doing all it can to
make sure that the best doctors stay right here in BC.  Doctors, as someone
pointed out, are not employed by the government, but they are paid by the 
government.  That strikes me as a contridiction.  I was working on contract for
a company doing technical work, and they were the only company paying my wages,
according to Revenu Canada, I was employed by that company, regardless of 
how I phrased or claimed it.  It strikes me that regardless of how the doctors
want to look at it, they are employees of the BC government, and are not
self employed unless they are receiving money from more than one source....
I'm not sure what my point it.....Move on...

I think I have a very simple solution for this problem, and it will not effect
the general population at all, and it should clear things up very quickly.
Doctors should simply refuse to serve politicians until this whole mess is
cleared up.

Steve

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