The root of our economic and health care problems: Our Leaders don't Walk their Talks

The root of our economic and health care problems:
Our Leaders don't Walk their Talks

Nipawin - Thursday, June 21, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

address
these social problems
There is so much talk of a prolonged health care crisis, and there is so much talk of our social economic failures in the last thirty years, and there is so much talk about the increasing productivity gap between the US and Canada, and there is so much talk about the consistent sliding of the Canadian dollar with respect to the US dollar. I ask myself if there is any correlation about these social failures, and if there is any correlation, why we do not address these social problems within their integrating complexity.

10% health
care
spending
Certainly there is a correlation about all of the above problems, and I don't have to use the deceiving mind set and tools of our conventional social researchers to statistically prove the correlation about our economic downfall and related crisis in health care. Just think in these terms, our health expenditures have been in the order of 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Now, if the economy falls down and we maintain this same percentage of 10% health care spending of the GDP we have a consequently fall of health care dollars.

health
care
crisis
What I want to say is that our economists and health care gurus have been playing the number game for too long and they are continuing to do so as I refer to the recent investigative report "State of the Nation" of the National Post, and to the ongoing health care crisis, today, both in British Columbia and Nova Scotia where health care workers have been protesting and have been refusing to work overtime.

same
leadership
We need to have Canadian solutions to Canadian problems; instead, our economists refer to the US for their economic growth, and our health gurus refer to Sweden for their health care late successes. Our conventional political and economic leadership has caused the downfall of our economic system, and yet this same leadership is driving our economic directions. Our conventional political and health care gurus have down sized the health care system, and yet we have sanctimonious Roy Romanow heading a Royal Commission in health care.

human
resource
Our political and economic leadership has focused on reducing the deficit and in fighting inflation against the interest of people at large, and as a consequence we have a productivity problem; as to say that productivity is more a matter of reducing the deficit and fighting inflation rather than increasing the creative capacity of people. Our political and health care gurus began the blowing out of acute care beds in Saskatchewan, the cradle of Medicare, and now we have Roy Romanow realizing that we have a human resource problem in health care.

decadent
Our political, economic and social leadership is decadent, and this is the major problem in our political system, in our economic system, in our social system. As long our leaders don't walk their talks there will be no legislation good enough to solve our problems.

------------References/endnotes:

List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1.
-
Giambattista Vico (1688 - 1744), Italian philosopher http://www.academic.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/Vico.htm

The root of our economic and health care problems: Our Leaders don't Walk their Talks

Nipawin - Thursday, June 21, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

address these social problems	There is so much talk of a prolonged health care crisis, and there is so much talk of our social economic failures in the last thirty years, and there is so much talk about the increasing productivity gap between the US and Canada, and there is so much talk about the consistent sliding of the Canadian dollar with respect to the US dollar. I ask myself if there is any correlation about these social failures, and if there is any correlation, why we do not address these social problems within their integrating complexity.

10% health care spending	Certainly there is a correlation about all of the above problems, and I don't have to use the deceiving mind set and tools of our conventional social researchers to statistically prove the correlation about our economic downfall and related crisis in health care. Just think in these terms, our health expenditures have been in the order of 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Now, if the economy falls down and we maintain this same percentage of 10% health care spending of the GDP we have a consequently fall of health care dollars.

health care crisis	What I want to say is that our economists and health care gurus have been playing the number game for too long and they are continuing to do so as I refer to the recent investigative report "State of the Nation" of the National Post, and to the ongoing health care crisis, today, both in British Columbia and Nova Scotia where health care workers have been protesting and have been refusing to work overtime.

same leadership	We need to have Canadian solutions to Canadian problems; instead, our economists refer to the US for their economic growth, and our health gurus refer to Sweden for their health care late successes. Our conventional political and economic leadership has caused the downfall of our economic system, and yet this same leadership is driving our economic directions. Our conventional political and health care gurus have down sized the health care system, and yet we have sanctimonious Roy Romanow heading a Royal Commission in health care.

human resource	Our political and economic leadership has focused on reducing the deficit and in fighting inflation against the interest of people at large, and as a consequence we have a productivity problem; as to say that productivity is more a matter of reducing the deficit and fighting inflation rather than increasing the creative capacity of people. Our political and health care gurus began the blowing out of acute care beds in Saskatchewan, the cradle of Medicare, and now we have Roy Romanow realizing that we have a human resource problem in health care.

decadent	Our political, economic and social leadership is decadent, and this is the major problem in our political system, in our economic system, in our social system. As long our leaders don't walk their talks there will be no legislation good enough to solve our problems.

------------References/endnotes:

	List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1. -	Giambattista Vico (1688 - 1744), Italian philosopher http://www.academic.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/Vico.htm