Doctors should scrub floors
Margaret Wente has found the solution to Canada's health care funding crisis. Doctors should scrub floors! Why has no one thought of that before? That's just the thing to stop med school grads emigrating to the US!
I can see the recruiting posters now. Sign up for medical school and get your dream job scrubbing floors! We offer the newest and most exciting soaps, and the most technologically advanced mops in the world!
Maybe we could run ads in US medical journals aimed at Canadian emigrés. Bored with the best research labs in the world? Tired of all that fancy-ass medical technology? Come back to Canada and scrub floors!
That "bureaucratic" public health-care system wastes a mind-boggling $15 an hour on janitors. Free of "union costs" and "rigid work rules", the private clinics can hire doctors to do the job for as little as $200 an hour.
Isn't capitalism great?
I can see the recruiting posters now. Sign up for medical school and get your dream job scrubbing floors! We offer the newest and most exciting soaps, and the most technologically advanced mops in the world!
Maybe we could run ads in US medical journals aimed at Canadian emigrés. Bored with the best research labs in the world? Tired of all that fancy-ass medical technology? Come back to Canada and scrub floors!
That "bureaucratic" public health-care system wastes a mind-boggling $15 an hour on janitors. Free of "union costs" and "rigid work rules", the private clinics can hire doctors to do the job for as little as $200 an hour.
Isn't capitalism great?
posted by Tyrone at
10:19 a.m.
7 Comments:
So happy to find you, WW. This blog is definitely an idea whose time has come.
By
skdadl, at August 22, 2006 1:29 p.m.
Brian Day's photo op of himself scrubbing the floor was little more than a vicious slap at members of the Hospital Employees Union after Bill 29 stripped them of their collective bargaining rights and the BC Liberals sold their jobs to the lowest bidder.
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ursa minor, at August 22, 2006 3:55 p.m.
Glad you addressed today's column, which contained the usual mix of distortions and half-truths, like the claim that Burak's challenge is anti-democratic, even though her own newspaper reports today that it is allowed under CMA rules.
Or the depiction (without evidence, naturally) of the Romanow report as belonging in the land of Tinkerbell, even as Wente herself flits off to the Never-Neverland where user fees that buy better service for the well-off will improve Canada's health-care system.
Keep up the good work.
By
Stephen, at August 22, 2006 4:32 p.m.
Well done. Wente could have a big influence in destroying medicare.
She is so naive and misleading about what would happen if her ideas were implimented.
What does two tier mean?
It means eventually some people are getting Cadillac Esplanade medical care and the rest of us are getting 78 Chevy pick up medical care. You know which one's in the passing lane on the 401 and the hip surgery waiting list.
Oh, That's the whole point isn't it?
John W
By
Anonymous, at August 23, 2006 5:38 p.m.
I have a small collection of old cutouts from A1 Globe teasers on my wall.
The hidden social tragedy of our times: Margaret Wente, A13
When castration can be the better way: Margaret Wente, A19
Why Ontarians are so cranky: Margaret Wente, A17
By
Anonymous, at August 23, 2006 5:44 p.m.
Margaret Wente on medicare
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Ms. Wente will be our guest tomorrow (Thursday) at 1 pm EDT to take your questions on that topic, or on any other of her recent columns.
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toobusyliving, at August 23, 2006 8:24 p.m.
If you're looking for more Wente debunkings, I've written a few over the years:
On Transit: July 21, 2006 column
Global Warming: May 04, 2006 column
Global Warming, March 15, 2005 column
Pacifists, March 26, 2006 column
Take your pick.
And here are a couple more good ones from others:
On Transit: July 21, 2006 column
Global Warming, March 15, 2005
By
Declan, at August 24, 2006 1:06 a.m.
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