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bob.jackman@tj.mlnet.com (Bob Jackman) wrote:

> JW> watched very closely from inside the health care field is moving the
> JW> control of care to the communities and the people.  

> Sure they are, Jerry......ask the board of Bulkley Valley (Smithers)
> hospital and their administrator, who were fired from Victoria. Your
> NDP government is sure doing a fine job of moving decisions into the
> regions, all right!!

Ooopsie you have not been reading carefully enough, Bob.  Jeery didn;t say
anything about decision making, he's talking about control of the system!

And he is absolutely right.  The NDP have moved THEIR control closer to
home.  Before, the local hospital boards had at least some sy.  Now the
regionla health boards are staffed by Ministry folks who get to pull all
the strings and they get to work closer to home.

> And how can you say that welfare is a separate issue from health or
> education? The funding of all our government programs are intricately
> inter-related, and none of them are separate from the rest. Every nickel 
> spent in one place, every policy decision made in one area, affects 
> funding or policy in another area.

I think education is actually the cornerstone.  The better educated people
are the better jobs they can get and the less likely they are to end up on
welfare.  Consequently, they can afford a much healthier lifestyle and have
the information to adopt it. Better educated labour force attracts more
productive and more lucrative investments.  The best jobs go where the best
educated people are.

I have recently heard somebody saying that every dollar spent in the
classroom saves ten dollars of law enforcement, welfare and health costs.
I don't know how accurate that statement is, but I do believe it in
principle.


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