It just get wierda and wierda
Perhaps Lou Rinaldi, our local MPP should think of packing it in, he obviously hasn't been to Timmies lately, maybe he is waiting for the new one in Brighton to open. If he did enter the hallowed halls of coffee he would sit at any table and eavesdrop on outraged constituents rant about the latest actions taken by the local Health Industry. Maybe that's his problem, having done nothing to stop the savage reorganisation of the Quinte Health Centre he is now impervious to the local complaints coming out of Cobourg and West Northumberland.
His latest quote, that hit the editorial pages today: "It's not the end of the world" and noting that hospitals should get back to the traditional services of caring for the sick. He apparently doesn't understand that rehab services make people well a lot faster than usual if rehab doesn't take place. Not to mention the rising costs of healthcare due to readmissions.
Well Loo if we all earned a fat MPP's salary with lifelong benefits then we would be saying the same. But we don't, most of us are a paycheques away from bankruptcy due to extra-billing and out-sourcing. If the previous MPP's reputation was gained by the refusal to say no to the non-funding of the building of the local hospital it will be Loo's epitaph if he doesn't do a lot more than he has done to date.
And in the meantime the two agencies named to help shoulder some of the burden of the redirected healthcare - Wraparound and The Hospital Elder Health Care program - are not service providers in these fields, just facilitators. That's all we need more peolpe talking about what should be done and no money to do it!
His latest quote, that hit the editorial pages today: "It's not the end of the world" and noting that hospitals should get back to the traditional services of caring for the sick. He apparently doesn't understand that rehab services make people well a lot faster than usual if rehab doesn't take place. Not to mention the rising costs of healthcare due to readmissions.
Well Loo if we all earned a fat MPP's salary with lifelong benefits then we would be saying the same. But we don't, most of us are a paycheques away from bankruptcy due to extra-billing and out-sourcing. If the previous MPP's reputation was gained by the refusal to say no to the non-funding of the building of the local hospital it will be Loo's epitaph if he doesn't do a lot more than he has done to date.
And in the meantime the two agencies named to help shoulder some of the burden of the redirected healthcare - Wraparound and The Hospital Elder Health Care program - are not service providers in these fields, just facilitators. That's all we need more peolpe talking about what should be done and no money to do it!
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I see from L'il Lou's comment that the callous attitude I've seen him demonstate to low income people has now spread to the rest of us. He really doesn't like to be challenged, he gets quite visibly annoyed when that happens.
When politicans develop that trait it's an indication their time in power should come to an end.
I don't know anything about Elder Care Northumberland but I know that the Wraparound folks make extensive use of unpaid volunteers in their work with children, so what we have here is paid jobs being lost while unpaid amateurs take over.
What the dinosaurs never take into account is that their traditional pool of volunteers, affluent stay at home wives, is drying up. We're all working now and we need that paycheque too. Those that aren't are too old or at the spa getting their toenails waxed or something, and they don't care much for public service.
Deb pretty much sums up why I find it so difficult to get involved in health care arguments. The internecine intertwinings of a thousand-and-one acronym'd agencies pushing and pulling away at each other while Biron-The-Boffin pontificates on the editorial page of today's paper, soft-soaping to beat the bullshit band -why- it's enough to make you sick.
Anybody remember that silver-tongued fop that shoed up to drive the final stake in the heart of Port Hope's hospital? I forget his name now. He F.O.'d to Sarnia soon as he got done here. But the first words out of his smarmy little yap when he showed up, and I remember that part like it was yesterday, he said "Call me whatever you want. But just don't call me a hatchet man." Then the eminently-predictable little yuppie son-of-a-bitch picked up the hatchet and before anybody could say "Biron's your uncle!" the hospital was gone.
T'was ever thus....
Just don't call him a thug.
David Vigar. That's it. David Vigar. David 'Just-Don't-Call-Me-A-Hatchet-Man' Vigar.
And now we got Bob's-Yer-Uncle Biron.
Kiss the Cobourg (yes....that's right, COBOURG) hospital goodbye, folks. By the time these unmusical Harold Hill's get done with you you'll feel like you had all 76 of their trombones shoved straight up your ass and a-hundred-and-ten of their coronets shoved down your small town throats. But for God's sake -be polite eh? Don't go callin' any of these spades a spade or anything. Oh no...that would never do. Just you keep going to meetings and joining committees and...and...well, being polite. Yep. Just keep being polite. And see where it gets ya....
Mr. Muffley raises a very good point with his last comment. Does going to meetings and planning polite delegations ever produce the result we want?
I, for one, don't think so. The folks who believe in that path to change seem to be satisfied with a tiny bit of progress that takes many years to even notice.
Is that enough? Not for me or apparently Mr. Muffley either.
When I have had complaints directed at me for using more pointed tools such as protests, I like to remind the doubters that women certainly didn't get the vote by being polite and inviting the MPs to tea. We had to chain ourselves to fences, make public spectacles of ourselves being thrown in jail and launching hunger strikes before we succeeded in good old England. At least the hard work there made it easier for women in North America, but it was still no cake walk here either.
Obviously the work of racial integration in the US was not achieved without strong dissent by a lot of people, some of whom were killed for their efforts. Sadly, the powers that be don't often willingly give up their power without a fight, and this hospital mess is no different.
Long may the rabble rise, and to the tea drinkers and meeting goers, I say get out of our way, we have real work to do.
"I say get out of our way, we have real work to do."
Conrad Black said very similar words concerning his business interests, certainly the same assumptive arrogance and bullying.
Whatever it takes to achieve the goal.
But we must all keep in mind, as a leading local progressive pointed out a couple months back, of the sensitivities of 14 year old girls who might off themselves in the face of intemperant free speech.
More tromboners, please.
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