Dear Editor,
I was just reading your excellent editorial about opening the bridges. They were closed because of people who did not understand their importance and reopened because it was the right thing to do.
It occurs to me that you can say the same things about public health care. Politicians want to sell it out to American style private companies, so our poor can suffer the way they do in the States.
Private care costs three times the amount as public, meaning our taxes have to rise to cover the extra. Politicians are closing ERs and hospital beds creating emergencies they will fix by destroying our world respected system.
Like reopening the needed bridges, saving health care will be slow and costly, but necessary. We can save it if we fight back against the fascist type of control that is destroying it.
We all need to call the MPPs, MPs and health boards to let them know this is just wrong. Google “Prairie Giant, the Life Story of Tommy Douglas”, (an excellent full length movie), and see why Douglas fought so hard to build public health care. Attend and support the demonstrations being put on by the Ontario Health Care Coalition this summer.
Our children will pay a terrible price for our failure, and for the rich there is no guarantee you will always be rich.
Fight to keep public health care or let Ford destroy it. In either case the children inherit what we do.
Roberta Docherty, Meaford