Minister of Health Pat Atkinson:breaking the law and becoming a magician |
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Nipawin - March 5, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis | |
approved ... budgets for the year April 1/1999 to March 31/2000 |
Thursday night I checked the news releases of the Saskatchewan government and I found to my dismay the news that the Minister of Health has all at once approved 11 (eleven) budgets for the year April 1/1999 to March 31/2000(1). I don't know what happened to the budgets of the other twenty-one districts, but think how this same government who expects its citizens to comply with the rule of law is breaking the law it makes. |
districts report relevant financial information to the Ministe | The Provincial Auditor has reported consistently throughout the years that the districts are not |
complying fully with section 35(2) of The Health District Act(2). This section of the act includes | |
the requirements that districts report relevant financial information to the Minister, such as annual | |
operating plans, three year strategic plans, and ongoing operational reports to compare actual | |
versus budgeted figures. | |
approves the budgets in the same month when the fiscal year end | Now, how in the world can those eleven districts provide operating performance measures to the |
Minister if this same Minister approves the budgets in the same month when the fiscal year end? | |
And what happened to the other twenty-one districts? Did they have their budgets approved or | |
their 1999-2000 budgets are going to be approved in the fiscal year 2000-2001? | |
asking the districts to retroactively report their operational performance | Pat Atkinson has driven health care to a gambling casino(3), and now she adds a touch of her |
magic by asking the districts to retroactively report their operational performance for the previous | |
fiscal year. Pat Atkinson has no vision for health care(4), she has certainly no strategic plans for | |
the districts; I thought she was able to manage numbers, but no, she cannot add numbers either(5), | |
so she has been promoted to the level of a magician as she and our other magician, Premier Roy | |
Romanow(6), take the role of the Canadian saviours of Medicare and begin preaching the gospel | |
that health care is underfunded(7). The voice of our socialist Medicare Saviours has been heard | |
by CUPE members and demonstrations to save Medicare are going to take place across Canada(8). | |
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General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by North Central Internet
News http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantis.html |
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Government News Release, Health - 86, March 3, 2000 http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/archive.html | |
Report of the Provincial Auditor, 1999 Fall Report, Volume 2, pages 50-51, http://www.auditor.sk.ca | |
Pat Atkinson: raising the finger and turning healthcare to a gambling casino, by Mario deSantis, February 3, 2000 | |
NEED OF TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN SASKATCHEWAN: Healthcare Reform and New Economic Policies, Part 2. What happened to the Saskatchewan Vision for Health?, by Mario deSantis, October 22, 1998 | |
The closure of the Plains Health Centre: The $50 million overrun and the gimmick of saving money in health care, by Mario deSantis, December 19, 1999 | |
Premier Romanow's Latest Magics: Shuffling Numbers & Mysterious Bank Account, by Mario deSantis, May 15, 1999 | |
Atkinson pressing for "urgent" health meeting, CBC Saskatchewan. An excerpt: "...Pat Atkinson says the future of medicare is at stake. She says that federal spending on health is now so low, the system is becoming unsustainable..." http://sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted | Mar 3 2000 8:42 AM EST | |
Rally for health care. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says the health care system is in critical condition. CBC Saskatchewan http://sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted | Mar 3 2000 6:25 PM EST |