The regional health authority in Nova Scotia has banned the sale of some doughnuts and muffins at on-site Tim Hortons franchises.

In Nova Scotia, 4 of 30 hospitals offer abortion services…. Freedom of  choice.

A comprehensive 2004 study in the CMA Journal found preventable medical errors contribute to between 9,000 and 24,000 deaths in Canada a year.

Glad to see that they are looking out for us.

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David Dodge, former governor of the Bank of Canada, dropped a ticking time bomb, ad no one seems to have noticed.

The Canadian universal health care model, with governments as the major funders of service, is fiscally unsustainable.

Dodge reports that health care spending in Canada could rise to take up almost 19 per cent of the national economy within 20 years, up from about 12 per cent today.

In dollar terms, that works out to an increase from about $5,000 today to $10,700 by 2031 in constant dollars for every person in Canada. If Election 2011 is being fought over family values, how’s this for dinner-table political chat: Health care costs for a family of four will jump 50 per cent to $42,800 within 20 years. Story:

Get this: In the US, regardless of the income tax rate, has the tax revenue ever passed 20% of GDP. Call it Hauser’s Law, because it is as central to the economics of taxation as Boyle’s Law is to the physics of gases.

There simply is not enough money to tax our way out of this… as much as Canadians seem to love new taxes.

This means that Canada’s “Free” health care model needs to be addressed quickly – which we know will not happen.

So just when all of us Baby Boomers need it most, it will collapse.. or the country will.  Along with our Canada Pensions.

Make the choice soon.

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Where will we go now?

Bonus news on Glenn Beck…maybe this is why the left’s heads explode when you say his name.

Glenn Beck Made $32 Million in 2009

Question: What would you withhold from someone who opposes health care reform? Cookies, a Christmas gift, sex?

Wonder who thought this up.  George Soros? The good thing is that this strategy will lead to less democrats being born.

The White House really needs to hire a czar to explain this Obamanation… their current spokesperson isn’t up to the job.

Let’s hope Americans kill it soon. The ramifications are huge for the world economy. And not in a good way, Joe.

Unions playing with people’s lives:

Following last week’s government-imposed back-to-work contract after a seven month strike….

Over 50 paramedics booked their shifts off right before they were about to start on Friday night,  pulling 35 ambulances off the road.

On Saturday more shifts were booked off, and the BCAS said it will be down 24 ambulances, including 10 in Metro Vancouver, and 10 in the Fraser Valley. Boston Bar, Hope, Agassiz, and Pemberton will be without an ambulance all together and will rely on neighbouring municipalities.

Victoria sent Vancouver a few ambulances to help deal with the shortage:

Sending ambulances from Victoria to the Lower Mainland on the weekend was “extremely stupid,” according to a spokesman for the union representing the province’s 3,500 ambulance paramedics.

“That was a very ill-conceived idea and someone needs to be held accountable,” said B.J. Chute, director of public education for the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C.

Two ambulances and two crews travelled by ferry from Victoria to the Lower Mainland Friday and remained there throughout yesterday.

No, B.J., pulling a stunt like this is stupid.

John Strohmeier, the president of CUPE Local 873, said the union had nothing to do with the cancelled shifts.

Glad to hear the union isn’t behind this. They won’t mind if, as Ronald Reagan did, we just fire anyone that misses work without proof.

Someone needs to be held accountable.

As the body count starts to rise in Vancouver, hopefully our politicians will realize that an outright ban on the union actions in health care is a reasonable solution. Or, even better, it’s time to open up the service to private competition.

That would end the union’s playing with people’s lives.

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