Louise Simard is the new CEO for SAHO

Louise Simard is the new CEO for SAHO

Nipawin - March 14, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis

either rural or urban The Health Care system is breaking down, and I can

tsee in he hiring of Louise Simard as CEO of the

Saskatchewan Association of Health

Organizations⁽¹⁾ (SAHO), a move for further

dividing our quality of health care as either rural or

urban. Simard took the credit for health reform in

Saskatchewan when as Minister of Health she

published the paper vision "A Saskatchewan Vision

for Health⁽²⁾. " This paper vision formed the

framework for the ensuing health legislation and

the implementation of the so called Wellness model

of health.

closure of hospitals in rural Saskatchewan The Wellness model was responsible for the closure of hospitals in rural Saskatchewan, for the

drastic reduction of acute and long term beds across the province, and for the shortage of nurses.

You would have thought that with all this cutting of health resources the health system would be

more efficient and more economical, instead health care has turned into a gambling casino, it

absorbs 40% of the provincial budget, and the province has the second highest pro-capita health

expenditures among all the provinces⁽³⁾.

more autocratic No doubt that health care is mismanaged, and no doubt that the government has been the primary

source for such a disastrous situation. Health care districts were supposed to be independent

agencies, instead they have been puppets of both the government and SAHO. Louise Simard is the

present wife of Honourable Dwaine Lingenfelter, Deputy Premier and Minister of Agriculture, and

her position of CEO for SAHO will create an additional political pressure leading to a more

autocratic governmental direction in health care.

centralized public health care This more autocratic direction is also supported by Minister of Health Pat Atkinson when she

stated that she would like to see fewer boards and fully appointed board members⁽⁴⁾, and it is also

supported by many union members who have been demonstrating against private health care.

Saskatchewan has been the first province to turn health care to a gambling casino, and now, as a

reactionary move, I can see Saskatchewan to be the first province in implementing legislation to

make a new kind of centralized public health care to the detriment of rural Saskatchewan and

people at large. Louise Simard is a lawyer and she will certainly express her own "written word⁽⁵⁾"

to our autocratic bureaucracy.

------------Endnotes:

Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm

General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by North Central Internet News http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantis.html

1.
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Simard taking over SAHO, CBC Saskatchewan http://sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted | Mar 13 2000 2:18 PM

2.
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A Saskatchewan Vision for Health, The Honourable Louise Simard, Minister of Health, August 1992, Saskatchewan Health

3.
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PUBLIC FUNDING FOR HEALTH CARE STRONG IN SASKATCHEWAN, Government News Release, Health - 918, December 16, 1999 http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/1999/12/16-918.html

4.
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The Saga of Health Reform: Pat Atkinson Wants Fewer Health Boards and Fully Appointed Boards, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis, October 16, 1999

5.
-
-
Pat Atkinson, the Shortage of Nurses and the Rule of Law, by Mario deSantis, January 26, 2000. In this article I implicitly describe the "written word" as a directive - just or not just- sanctioned autocratically by an authoritarian office

Louise Simard is the new CEO for SAHO
*Nipawin - March 14, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis*

either rural or urban	The Health Care system is breaking down, and I can
	tsee in he hiring of Louise Simard as CEO of the
	Saskatchewan Association of Health
	Organizations⁽¹⁾ (SAHO), a move for further
	dividing our quality of health care as either rural or
	urban. Simard took the credit for health reform in
	Saskatchewan when as Minister of Health she
	published the paper vision "A Saskatchewan Vision
	for Health⁽²⁾. " This paper vision formed the
	framework for the ensuing health legislation and
	the implementation of the so called Wellness model
	of health.

closure of hospitals in rural Saskatchewan	The Wellness model was responsible for the closure of hospitals in rural Saskatchewan, for the
	drastic reduction of acute and long term beds across the province, and for the shortage of nurses.
	You would have thought that with all this cutting of health resources the health system would be
	more efficient and more economical, instead health care has turned into a gambling casino, it
	absorbs 40% of the provincial budget, and the province has the second highest pro-capita health
	expenditures among all the provinces⁽³⁾.

more autocratic	No doubt that health care is mismanaged, and no doubt that the government has been the primary
	source for such a disastrous situation. Health care districts were supposed to be independent
	agencies, instead they have been puppets of both the government and SAHO. Louise Simard is the
	present wife of Honourable Dwaine Lingenfelter, Deputy Premier and Minister of Agriculture, and
	her position of CEO for SAHO will create an additional political pressure leading to a more
	autocratic governmental direction in health care.

centralized public health care	This more autocratic direction is also supported by Minister of Health Pat Atkinson when she
	stated that she would like to see fewer boards and fully appointed board members⁽⁴⁾, and it is also
	supported by many union members who have been demonstrating against private health care.
	Saskatchewan has been the first province to turn health care to a gambling casino, and now, as a
	reactionary move, I can see Saskatchewan to be the first province in implementing legislation to
	make a new kind of centralized public health care to the detriment of rural Saskatchewan and
	people at large. Louise Simard is a lawyer and she will certainly express her own "written word⁽⁵⁾"
	to our autocratic bureaucracy.

------------Endnotes:

	Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm

	General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by North Central Internet News http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantis.html

1. -	Simard taking over SAHO, CBC Saskatchewan http://sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted \| Mar 13 2000 2:18 PM

2. -	A Saskatchewan Vision for Health, The Honourable Louise Simard, Minister of Health, August 1992, Saskatchewan Health

3. -	PUBLIC FUNDING FOR HEALTH CARE STRONG IN SASKATCHEWAN, Government News Release, Health - 918, December 16, 1999 http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/1999/12/16-918.html

4. -	The Saga of Health Reform: Pat Atkinson Wants Fewer Health Boards and Fully Appointed Boards, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis, October 16, 1999

5. - -	Pat Atkinson, the Shortage of Nurses and the Rule of Law, by Mario deSantis, January 26, 2000. In this article I implicitly describe the "written word" as a directive - just or not just- sanctioned autocratically by an authoritarian office