DENTAL CARE A WINNER FOR MCGUINTY
This is definitely a winner. For years I have been thinking that if we are to have a system where medical care is paid for by the government, then there is no logical reason why dental work should not be included.I would argue that especially in the case of small children, where dental pain can be a very serious concern. My views on this issue are actually very NDP. I don't think this goes far enough.
I have no idea how many people would actually benefit from this, and the Star article reaks of bias, but if my tax dollars had to go towards anything paid for by the government, dental care would be at the top of the list.
I have been very critical of McGuinty on this blog but I have to give credit where credit is due. I am not a partisan. Love him or hate him, this move by team McGuinty is a stroke of genius. I also think it is a moral thing for a government to do.
With all of the policy pilfering by the Ontario Liberals of late, McGuinty's campaign is playing like a greatest hits of the opposition requests.
I eagerly await what John Tory's counter move will be.
posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 9:27 AM
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Nicol wrote:
"I eagerly await what John Tory's counter move will be."
Government-funded faith-based dental care?
Gee another promise from the all time great satan of promise breakers..if this doesn't happen, i wonder how Mike Harris will be to blame for all of this..
AHAHAHAHA. This is one the stupidest, and there have been many, government interventions in a long time. We have Medicare and look at the problems with that. The dental system is running just fine. In fact we should model our medical system after it.
I just spoke with my dentist, he says that the UK were dental coverage is socialized, has the worst rates of endenture(loss of all teeth) in the western world. AHAHAHAH The law of uninteneted consequenses. Stupid socialist/communists.
Government monopoly health care is a disaster, while it is quite possible to find dental care at reasonable prices with little wait time since it is relatively unregulated and works on free market principles.
Do you really want to be responsible for creating the Ontario "Dental care crisis"?
I also had a double-take when I read the Marxist Toronto Star this morning and found out Dalton is promising universal dental care. And I, like everyone else in Canada, thought that it was long overdue. And then the nagging doubts started to creep in...
Dalton is promising the moon, same as George Bailey, if only to get elected. How many promises will he break this time around?
How are we going to afford universal dental care? It's already hugely expensive, and is done fairly well through private insurance currently.
I would prefer some kind of inclusion of emergency dental care into the health care system, so that people who are genuinely suffering from pain don't have to shell out $400 for dental surgery. But having said that, I don't think I want another public health boondoggle, which this would inevitably become.
I guess all I'm saying is if my tax dollars have to go towards a poor child getting a filling or the latest craptacular masturbation on celluloid from Sarah Polley or Don McKellar, it's pretty easy to guess which I would take?
Where are you guys when I complain about all the useless arts funding? Especially during the week of TIFF!
Yes..i can see it now..another low-fi Cancon 'film' co-produced with a cabal of 12 other nations (that also don't have a clue how to make a movie..)
It will star one of six Canadian actors always seen in commercials and telefilms,and will get massive funding for it's tie in to the dental issue by re-enacting the infamous scene from 'Marathon Man'
with Mcsquinty as the doctor,asking 'if it hurts, only his hand won't be on your teeth, it will be on your wallet..
Actually, the NDP had this idea first. Dalton just watered it down.
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