Looking at "Gift Horses"
And what a gift horse we have just received in Northumberland County. Last week our local MPP raised himself to his full height of five foot nothing, beat his chest and proclaimed, "That I have never been prouder than today to announce that the Provincial government has awarded the local hospital $800,000 in annual operating funds to operate an MRI machine."
Whoa Nellie! just who is going to pay for the machine? That is the two and a half million dollar question. Perhaps the MPP is being premature as a NHH Board member told me, "We haven't even discussed this at the Board level yet." And even more insidious the concept is to hire a private company to operate this department. So much for the savings of public health.
The problem I have is that as municipal taxpayers we have been subjected to the guilt trip of not donating to such a worthy cause as hospital equipment already. Next year we will be donating (I call it being blackmailed into) the equivalent of a 3% tax increase to the hospital to fund a CT scanner. If the Provincial government wants us to have top of the line and necessary diagnostic equipment it must pony up, they are responsible for health funding after all.
the definition of a gift horse by the word detective:
"Of course, if the horse in question is presented as a gift, it would be rudeness in the extreme to pry the creature's mouth open to gape at its choppers, a bit of social etiquette summed up since the 16th century in the adage "Never look a gift horse in the mouth." " The word detective can be found here
Whoa Nellie! just who is going to pay for the machine? That is the two and a half million dollar question. Perhaps the MPP is being premature as a NHH Board member told me, "We haven't even discussed this at the Board level yet." And even more insidious the concept is to hire a private company to operate this department. So much for the savings of public health.
The problem I have is that as municipal taxpayers we have been subjected to the guilt trip of not donating to such a worthy cause as hospital equipment already. Next year we will be donating (I call it being blackmailed into) the equivalent of a 3% tax increase to the hospital to fund a CT scanner. If the Provincial government wants us to have top of the line and necessary diagnostic equipment it must pony up, they are responsible for health funding after all.
the definition of a gift horse by the word detective:
"Of course, if the horse in question is presented as a gift, it would be rudeness in the extreme to pry the creature's mouth open to gape at its choppers, a bit of social etiquette summed up since the 16th century in the adage "Never look a gift horse in the mouth." " The word detective can be found here
