tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667867.post6529877403778498265..comments2023-10-22T10:46:18.594-04:00Comments on Cardinal47/Politics and living in the world: Danny Williams and medicarecardinal47http://www.blogger.com/profile/15686583132311235803noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667867.post-26568420166782935362010-02-28T16:29:04.057-05:002010-02-28T16:29:04.057-05:00Williams should be taken to task much more severel...Williams should be taken to task much more severely – he’s not just a private citizen, but the premier of a province, responsible for the health care available to everyone in it.<br /><br />I do take exception to one line in Goldstein's article though, viz: “After all, if you won’t put more private resources into the system, all you can do to save money is cut public funding.” You can sure as hell operate the system more efficiently and save money doing that. The problem may lie less with “underfunding” than with mis-allocating the funding that’s provided. [The doctor shortage is certainly a result in part of bad public decisions, not just funding ones.]James Russellnoreply@blogger.com