The Commission on Medicare:Another expert, another vision, and another number |
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Nipawin - June 15, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis | |
Ken Fyke |
As the government is unable to do its work we have yet another commission to review medicare |
in the province and define a new vision. Today, Premier Roy Romanow has announced the | |
creation of The Commission on Medicare, and has appointed health consultant Ken Fyke as | |
chair of this commission(1). | |
involvement |
The creation of this commission comes as the Coalition Against No-fault Insurance(2) is doing |
the job for the No-Fault governmental review, and as people in rural Saskatchewan are taking | |
over the maintenance of rural roads from the government(3). This government doesn't understand | |
yet that a vision can only be built with the trust and emotional involvement of the people and | |
their leaders. A vision is not built by bringing in another expert and coming up with another | |
number. | |
phony |
We got a number from Neil Gardner(4) when he became the major architect of the Saskatchewan |
Health Information Network, we got another number from Louise Simard(5), new CEO of the | |
Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO), we got another number from Dr. | |
Steven Lewis(6), former CEO of Health Services Utilization and Research Commission | |
(HSURC) of Saskatchewan, we got many numbers from Brian Rourke(7), fixed chair of | |
SAHO, we got many numbers from Minister of Health Pat Atkinson(8), we got more numbers | |
from health consultant Bert Boyd(9), and we got the last phony numbers from Dr. David | |
Cassidy's study on whiplash injuries(10). | |
Premier Romanow, |
Please Premier Romanow, stop the number game, stop your no-fault government, stop this |
alienation from the people(11), stop the double talking of your ministers(12) and stop managing | |
by the number game. | |
-----------References & Endnotes: | |
Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm | |
General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by Ensign | |
PREMIER CREATES COMMISSION ON MEDICARE, Government News Release, June 14, 2000 Health - 363, Saskatchewan Government | |
Transcipts Of Our First Meeting In Regina! And Transcipts Of Our Second Meeting In Saskatoon! COALITION AGAINST NO FAULT IN SASKATCHEWAN http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/ | |
Climax residents to fight highway conversion, by James Parker, The Leader Post, June 14, 2000, Regina, Saskatchewan | |
Healthcare in Saskatchewan: Getting ready for re-reengineering and shifting the blame, by Mario deSantis, October 31, 1999 | |
A Saskatchewan Vision for Health, The Honourable Louise Simard, Minister of Health, August 1992, Saskatchewan Health Louise Simard is the new CEO for SAHO, by Mario deSantis, March 13, 2000 | |
Dr. Steven Lewis and HSURC Commission of Saskatchewan: Contributing sources to the decline of health care in Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, March 12, 2000 | |
Never enough money for SAHO, by Mario deSantis, March 30, 1999 | |
Minister of Health Pat Atkinson and Health Indicators: "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" by Mario deSantis, March 24, 2000 | |
The Big Question for Saskatchewan Health Care: Underfunding or Mismanagement? By Mario deSantis, March 3, 2000 | |
The incredible abuse of Saskatchewan No-Fault insurance, by Mario deSantis, May 28, 2000 and reviewed by James deSantis | |
Gov't is losing touch, by Murray Mandryk, The StarPhoenix, June 13, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
Honourable Judy Junor: a skewed government and her skewed statistics, by Mario deSantis, June 7, 2000 |