The problem with health care:
Health-care Gorbachev and the Tin Pot dictators

Nipawin - June 17, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis
   

reductionist health researchers

Yesterday, as I was browsing through the Internet, I came across a very telling and pointing
article on health care "Health-care Gorbachev(1)." This article was a confirmation of whatever
we have been writing on health care for sometime, that is that health care is mismanaged by the
central planning committee, the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI)(2), by the
provincial Tin Pot dictators, and by our well endowed reductionist health researchers.
   

who is on
the board
of CIHI

Now, for the sake of curiosity, do you know who is on the board of CIHI? We have Tin Pot
dictator Neil Gardner(3), the master mind of the Saskatchewan Health Information Network
(SHIN). And you know why there has been so much political, bureaucratic and business silence
about the flopping SHIN? Because the SHIN was nothing else but one provincial component
Editors Note: SHIN as Mario notes was partly engineered by the US Defence industry giants but the data it collects on each of us is in turm marketed to the insurance industry, pharmacutical companies, or who ever has the money to buy all they want to know about us, the people of Saskatchewan, Mike Harris' Ontario government is setting up its system based on the Saskatchewan one. of the obsolete health communication network(4) conceptualized by our Health-care Gorbachev,
that is our leaders have been managing by their rule "everybody's problem is no problem." And
you know how Health-care Gorbachev was successful in silencing any dissenter of this
orchestrated Canadian wide communication network? They hired the big business guns: Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC)(5) and SAP(6).
 
The silence for this Canadian communication network flop cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer
dollars. And eventually, while Honourable Judy Junor and Neil Gardner were defending SHIN
at the legislature(7), the Manitoba government denounced their health communication network as
a waste of taxpayers money(8). Health-care Gorbachev envisions a centrally planned health
system where evidence based health care is equated to a system of linear equations and where
  continuous researches provide the information needed to feed these equations.
   

disassociate themselves
from understanding

Our researchers and Tin Pot dictators are linear thinkers, they are unable to conceptualize an ever
naturally evolving health care system and their logic follows the linear thinking rule "if a woman
makes a baby in nine months, nine women will make a baby in one month." As a consequence of
this rule, our researchers and Tin Pot dictators disassociate themselves from understanding our
soft and natural social relationships affecting health care, and concentrate instead on making the
hard decisions(9) to set up a new system of linear equations.
   

linear
equations

The University of Saskatchewan is building its 50 year vision with the building of the
synchrotron(10)(11), and our new health care review(12) will build its vision with a new set of
linear equations which will ensure the maintenance of this system well into the next century,
not 50 years but 100 years, 50 years better than the synchrotron's vision!
   

Kenneth Fyke
is not short of numbers

In 1999, Premier Romanow decided to spend 39.5% of the provincial budget for health care
because this was the number the people wanted(13), today he is not sure if this number is precise
enough and has commissioned health consultant Kenneth Fyke to come up with another number.
Kenneth Fyke is not short of numbers and has already stated that our Canadian health care
system is better than the American one because "the administration costs to run health care
average about 6% of the budget throughout most of Canada compared with 28% in the United
  States(14)."
   

how we can improve our system

These researchers and Tin Pot dictators cannot understand the contextual significance of our
health care issues(15); we have a Canadian health care system and there is a different American
health care system. American health care costs are almost twice as much as ours, but this fact
per se is not enough to support the position that our system is better than the American. Today,
the American economy is supporting its health care costs while our economy is not supporting
our own health care costs. So, let us not mix apples and oranges Mr. Fyke, let us just concentrate
on how we can improve our system.
   

rewire the brains

What we need in health care is not a new plan, not a new vision, not a new number. What we need
in health care is to rewire the brains of our researchers(16) and Tin Pot dictators, and have some
fresh air: more individual freedom!
   
----------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 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantisNG.html
   

1.
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Health-care Gorbachev, by Terence Corcoran, National Post, April 27, 2000 http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?s2=columnists&s3=corcoran&f=000427/271548.html
   

2.

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), http://www.cihi.ca/weare/weare.htm
   

3.

CIHI Board of Directors - Profiles, http://www.cihi.ca/weare/bios.htm#Neil Gardner
   

4.

Healthcare crisis is a crisis of participatory democracy, by Mario deSantis, January 30, 2000
   

5.
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Premier Romanow: Militarizing Health Care and Killing Rural Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, Mar 19, 2000
   

6.
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Our leaders can't recognize an asset from a hole in the ground, by Mario deSantis, December 2, 1999
   

7.
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Associate Minister of Health Judy Junor: defending the SHIN flop at the Legislature, by Mario deSantis, April 13, 2000
   

8.
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RESPONSE TO DELOITTE AND TOUCHE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, Manitoba government news releases, February 4, 2000 http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/press/top/2000-02/feb0401.html
   

9.
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Province commits to health-care review, SP Services, The StarPhoenix, June 15, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. An excerpt: "We have to ask tough questions," said Romanow. "Is every new technology or drug something that we should embrace?"
   

10.
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Premier Romanow's Shining Light to the World: The Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, April 2, 1999
   

11.
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U of S ranks 14 out of 15: Why not being the best of yourself! By Mario deSantis, November 12, 1999
   

12.
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PREMIER CREATES COMMISSION ON MEDICARE, Government News Release, June 14, 2000 Health - 363, Saskatchewan Government http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/2000/06/14-363.html
   

13.

A short commentary on the budget: A Number Game, by Mario deSantis, April 1, 1999
   

14.
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Romanow prescribes check-up on medicare, DAVID ROBERTS, The Globe and Mail, June 15, 2000 http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/National/20000615/USASKN.html
   

15.

The highest priority to cure health care: stop mismanaging it! By Mario deSantis, March 7, 2000
   

16.
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The last expression against the corrupted academic researches: Record of research abuses warrants skepticism, by Robert A. Carlson, The StarPhoenix, June 15, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan