Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough

Times Colonist;

Retired teacher Jo Danielson is living on the edge with an abdominal aneurysm, a dangerous bulge in her aorta, the largest single artery in the body. [...] But she will have to wait until April, when the Vancouver IslandHealth Authority's next budget year begins. The health authority has placed a cost-saving, yearly cap on the stent procedure because of the extra cost.

And that's why our ailing political elites should be forced to choose between resignation or waiting anonymously for the same legislative cattle cars they've arranged for the rest of us. And why will that never happen?

Eric from Vancouver - "Our health is a political football, their health is IMPORTANT."

Posted by Kate at February 2, 2010 3:17 PM

