Another LTTE in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix complaining about the new privately owned Surgicentre. Just your another concerned citizen? Nope!
Beth is a CUPE communications rep and the contact person for this press release
Here's the best part.
The fact that wait times for surgeries in the Saskatoon Health Region have continued to drop over the last year is due to innovations in the public system, not the government's decision to use for-profit clinics.
I hate to break it to Beth, but besides being wrong about the for-profit clinics the Saskatchewan Party was in government when these waiting lines were reduced, not the NDP.
But one has to ask, why does a CUPE spokesperson take issue with waiting lists being shortened?
Friday, December 3, 2010
NDP Orc - Beth Smillie
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You know what? I'm sure she's right that the number of people who wait more than 6 months for surgery dropped before the government started contracting some surgeries out to the private sector, but there are 2 other issues involved in the public sector - one is the union contract sucking money out of the public system through insane overtime rules, and the other comes from the provincial government publishing the names and contact information of specialists so that patients can get referred to the one that has openings, and not to the one that their GP "always sends patients to".
That "innovation" has nothing to do with the public sector reforming.
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