Editor:
People like Bill Davis and Gary Tupper elucidate why we need universal health care more than ever.
It should be said that many places in the world are facing unprecedented shortages in health-care workers. A pandemic will do that. Many health-care workers have spoken about their struggles, and we should push our government to do more at all costs to support and recruit. There are many solutions; none of them should involve funnelling our tax dollars into the pockets of privatization.
To look at America health care, in all their brokenness, and think: "We should emulate a system that leaves people BANKRUPT because their body inevitably failed them"?
And to quote Donald Trump in support of that, a man who never contributed anything of worth at all to this world, who only ever acted in self-interest?
I would rather look to politicians like Tommy Douglas, who saw a better world for all Canadians and knew that the world included equitable health care for all.
Stop lining the pockets and licking the boots of oligarchs, in hope that your spittle shine might one day reflect a bit of sun on your face.
We, as Canadians, should support universal health care with the knowledge that we are closer to the unhoused person than the billionaire ruling class above, who would run this world into the ground if he felt he would profit.
"I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay."
— Tommy Douglas
Christopher Reynolds
