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In article <1992Jun30.182416.20107@unixg.ubc.ca> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
> I wonder if the Governmment has also taken the precaution of
> imposing a cap on cancer cell division rates, LDL and blood pressure
> levels, and the incidence of hip fractures in elderly patients.
> No?  Well, I did rather doubt it - divine rights of rulers were
> out of fashion well before the French Revolution, and alteration
> of the laws of nature by decree was shown definitively not to work
> by King Canute (note to Americans; an early English king who
> ordered the tide not to come in).

Ah fine bit of sarcastic humour, but...

> Coming up on three years into the emergence of the New World
> Order, and we have the irony of a BC Government seemingly intent
> on inventing anew Socialism With An Inhuman Face.

This socialism you seek seems to include a built in class distinction.
What is it about the profession of medicine that makes people believe
doctors should make so much of a better living than the people who pay
for their services?

These doctor's wages are being capped, not cut.  When was the last time
you saw a poor doctor?  I for one would rather see the money being spent
on health care get spent on medical equipment, and opening extra hospital
beds, rather than increasing the salary of doctors.

As for the complaint that hospitals are not given enough money to hire
sufficient numbers of doctors, perhaps instead of blaming the lack of
funds, we should look at the cost of the doctors.  Do not attack the
symptoms, when it should be the illness you are after.

Perhaps you should also have mentioned to the american's listenning that
BC uses government funds to pay for a pension fund for our highest paid
professionals, namely doctors.  Not only are our doctors well paid over
a very long professional career, but we as taxpayers then make sure they
maintain that standard of living into their retirement.  One would think
that government pension plans are better suited for the masses of lower
paid citizens, who can not draw from such long and prosperous careers,
to save for retirement.

> on inventing anew Socialism With An Inhuman Face.

You be the judge.  Socialism for the wealthy?  Sounds like social credit.
Whatever their failings, at least we have an educated government for
once in this province.

- Iain McVey -
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