: ees ~ A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 3, 2005 CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD The Mail Bag Open up health care Dear Sir: In light of the Supreme Court’s recent: call in striking down the prohibition of private health insurance in Chaoulli v. Quebec, health care should not continue to be a govern- ment-protected monopoly. Parallel private health care e should be allowed to compete - in every jurisdiction. Citizens should have a choice of totally « ‘opting out of a national medicare act that has not provided the level of service required. : They should not be in a position where they are gambling that they won’t die before receiving adequate and timely care — both: which are supposed to be provided by the gov- ernment. They should have the option of buying i insurance from a provider that will provide such care, in their own province, that.suits their needs. In other words, they should have the choice of continuing to, pay for their medical care through a portion of their fed- eral tax in addition to the provincially levied premiums. In order to make this decision fairly, comparative ‘costs of what premiums are charged for all levels of health care -outside the country should be published. Just before the last election, the spin-doctors and politi- © cians constantly tried to equate the amount of money allo- _. ated with the level of service provided. The policy of indis- ”.criminately, throwing money. at a problem for increasing the availability or timely access to health care doesn’t solve.the problem, unless the waiting lists actually go down (which _they haven’t). The reality i is that a percentage of the public finances al- located never reached the core of the citizens actual concern of more beds and less waiting. Politicians don’t have this ., concern ~ they have never had to wait. . The waiting.times listed and published never seem to in- clude those of the northern sectors of Canada. In the NWT- there is not a problem of waiting. If treatment and care are " required, they are made available at that time. If this cannot be. provided for locally, the recipient is flown:to Edmonton. And, not like the medical transport © provided by provinces like BC, those recipients are given a _feturn ticket. Unlike Gordon Campbell’s off-loading policy, - they are not personally billed for transport after being admit- ted into a hospital. . ' The black hole of administrative expenses and patronage- appointed bureaucrats with their bloated salaries are not only — ~ too expensive but, to add insult to injury, the'severance pack- ‘ages (or employment. contracts) are almost equal to that of _ the politicians that chose them. 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Dear Sir: One recent morning at 7:45 as I was traveling to town to ° do some business I could not help but notice two very large out of province fifth wheels parked in the far corners of the Wal-Mart parking lot. I contacted David Block, our local enforcement officer, and enquired as to whether the by-law contravening overnight parking was still in effect. David assured:me it still stood and so J filed a complaint since, as we are all aware, any parking in this lot takes mon- - ies directly from city coffers that would have been collected at local camping sites. _ My next step was to ask the manager of Wal-Mart why they were not enforcing a by-law they agreéd to prior to set- ting up shop in Terrace: The manager informed me that they | had met.their obligations by erecting. signs in the parking lot to the effect that no overnight camping was permitted. However I was informed, if a traveller were to arrive late at night and their safety was in question then, of course, Wal- Mart was not obliged to request they leave the premises. Apparently the residents of Terrace are-so violent and dangerous that tourists’ safety is in doubt even if they must only travel a few hundred feet to neighbouring Ferry Island campground. . I find this explanation outrageous and in total disregard to the courteous rules of business conduct on the part of Wal- Mart. This disregard for the local economy and self suffi- ciency of the city of Terrace can not be overlooked. - Wal-Mart has yet again exhibited their total lack of re- spect and regard for Terrace if they do not act and enforce - our local by-laws. 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