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Inanna,

When you get a reply can you post it seperatly so that all of us here in England can see how false the canadian politicians are and see if they are as bad as the British ones!!

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Good letter Kat.
I hope they listen to you. There are too too may cuts to health care in all the proviences.
They were also talking about bringing in a tax down this way. Didn't say what would be cut etc.
It didn't happen in this budget I think the main reason is we have a minority government and that just may have made it fall



Take care
Valerie

Although ya know I would love to compromise,...

True, Mikey did put some of your income tax money back in your pocket. But, he didn't give you back a penny of your OHIP payments. He kept that and spent it on healthcare... so the only money missing to fund our health care was the $$$ large sums yanked away by the feds years back and never restored. Ask any other province and they will say the same. Mike did not have very much choice but to flail widely about making changes in mad desperate attempts to find savings to maintain our system. Yes, he could have increased our taxes, but since we already pay more money for health care than most nations on the planet, he tried to find savings. Pretty weird move for a politician eh? Too bad it didn't work very well.

Well, I just watched the throne speech live (as much as I could handle) and IT"S TRUE!!! The Liberal's plan is to do exactly what you'd heard - steal services away and charge us even more for significantly less. To borrow a phrase... "We hates them."

They have big plans to increase other areas of health care and will do it by stealing more of our money in taxes, cutting all the services you listed, and running a new even bigger deficit! A combined 2 income family (with 2 kids) making about 60k will have a yet another tax increase of $600 /yr!!!!! Here we go again... tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend. Exactly all of the things they promised NOT to do.

On a singular bright note, they plan to increase Ontario Disability Support payments annually by 3% for the first time in the last 11 years!!! This should be helpful to our fellow spondylitics in these parts no doubt! And they plan to buy an additional 9 MRI machines for the province. At least we have something to smile about!

Cheers!

mig

Hi Gang
I just wanted to add a clarification with regards to physio and chiro appts.The government will pay if you are referred by a doctor.

Thanks for the clarification Janet!

So now the question is,... who runs around getting Physio if they are without health issues? Seems rather odd.

Cheers!

mig

Hi GAng,
I also thought last ngiht they said there will be many more joint replacements and Cataract surgeries performed per year becuase of the extra cash. There won't be more cataract surgeries because folks won't be having there eyes examined! I am amzed they didn't take away the Trillium drug plan, I don't know how I would manage to pay for my drugs. I sure do miss my drug coverage I had at my job.

Chers,
Janet

Excellent letter Kat...I took the liberty of forwarding it to my MPP and to the Premier aswell....hope that was ok.

Dan

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We are kicking some AS*.

Well, Janet, I'm glad to hear that, anyway. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get my family doctor or my rheumy to prescribe chiro for me. They both know how important it is to my ongoing wellbeing. As for physio, that's one that doesn't touch me right now, as I've chosen pilates as my physio, which isn't covered by anyone.

The optometry thing, well, that's just short-sighted in the extreme. We live in a world that is dependant upon flickering images on small screens. Our eyes are constantly trying to adjust to the flickering, which overworks the muscles. People are needing new prescriptions long after it used to be that their eyes evened out. Kids need glasses much younger now. The majority of us depend on our eyes for work (ie computers) at this point. Ah well, just get in to the eye doctor before July.

Thanks for making this clear for us, Janet.

Hugs,

Kat


"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."- Thomas Edison

Really, tho, Mig, that's what every government does - tax and spend. Or cut taxes, slash services and keep spending. Frankly, for me, at this point, the name of the party, the colour of their ties, it doesn't matter. I don't trust any of them. I don't want to vote for any of them. They all lie. They all cheat. They all try to justify their actions (although there was no justification for what happened to seniors and single moms under the last regime). They all want our votes and they'll all say whatever it takes to get that vote.

I'd be willing to bet that the reason that the NDP didn't do as well during the last provincial election is that they actually told the truth about the state of finances in this province. The public didn't want to hear that. After ten years under the Tories, they just wanted someone to tell them that it would all be all right. That's what McGuinty did. Hampton told the truth and, well, they lost party status.

The one I would edge toward might be the NDP, if only for that reason, but then, look what the NDP did to Bob Rae when he told the truth about the state of affairs in this province. They turned the unions against their own man and they lost the next election.

Can't trust any of them. I still want to see the Natural Law Party get in. Or the Marijuana Party. Hell, transendental meditation, pot, both lead to less bickering at Queens Park and Parliament Hill.

Hugs,

Kat


"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."- Thomas Edison

Dan, that's just fine with me. One of the reasons I posted it was to encourage people to speak out about these things that are so integral to our wellbeing. Glad you were able to use it.

Hugs,

Kat


"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."- Thomas Edison