Stephen Harper hates the Canada we know and love and thinks very little of most Canadians. He's against "socialist" health care and wants to scrap it. But he has praise for America and American Republicans. Don’t believe me? Here are some articles about his views, Article One, Article Two, Article Three Article Four and in his own words.
In the Firewall Letter that was sent to the National Post in 2001, Harper and a handful of conservative academics argued that Alberta should move ahead with plans to implement its own healthcare agenda that is independent of the Canada Health Act and made the case that they are ready to pay the fines that come with it. They wrote:
Harper pitted the solution to our healthcare woes as the following:
Harper also hates universal health care and believes it should be scrapped. When he was VP of the National Citizen's Coalition, then president David Somerville stated:
In the Firewall Letter that was sent to the National Post in 2001, Harper and a handful of conservative academics argued that Alberta should move ahead with plans to implement its own healthcare agenda that is independent of the Canada Health Act and made the case that they are ready to pay the fines that come with it. They wrote:
"Resume provincial responsibility for health care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts..
Albertans deserve better than the long waiting periods and technological backwardness that are rapidly coming to characterize Canadian medicine. Alberta should also argue that each province should raise its own revenue for health care — i.e., replace Canada Health and Social Transfer cash with tax points, as Quebec has argued for many years."The quotes regarding Harper’s plans for the Americanization of Healthcare are endless.
Harper pitted the solution to our healthcare woes as the following:
“...what we clearly need is experimentation -- with market reforms and private delivery options within the public system. And it is only logical that, in a federal state where the provinces operate the public health care systems and regulate private services, that experimentation should occur at the provincial level."On the Canadian Alliance Leadership website in 2002, Harper told the crowd, “Our health care will continue to deteriorate unless Ottawa overhauls the Canada Health Act to allow the provinces to experiment with market reforms and private health care delivery options.”
Harper also hates universal health care and believes it should be scrapped. When he was VP of the National Citizen's Coalition, then president David Somerville stated:
“It’s past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.”
A right-wing doctor, David Gratzer, wrote this book Code Blue. In it he recommends our health system be replaced with a US private system and medical savings account. Harper’s praise for the book is on the jacket:
“Gratzer proposes a workable solution for the biggest policy problem of the coming generation ― government-controlled health-care monopoly. Canada needs Gratzer’s solution.”
Recently leaked Harper quotes (ironically compiled by the Conservative party) reveal more of Harper's true feelings on our health care system:
The Canada Health Act “rules out private, public-delivery options, It rules out co-payment, pre-payment and all kinds of options that are frankly going to have to be looked at if we're going to deal with the challenges that the system faces.”
“If we had a health-care system based on insurance and we paid for these services out of our own pocket, this would be a non-issue.”
Harper plans to dismantle our health care system by stealth.
American healthcare is absoulute disaster, single person in some states for full dental, medical, can be as high 900 per month, average american makes 25ooo year or less. WTO wants all countries to lower barriers to free market, Canada public health will be challenged as unfair, thus we will loose in world court. Un elected poeple are pushing for global economy, can't even have the decency to allow people to have universal health. Harper is Canada's first dictator, will destroy Canada.
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