Head in the Sand

Ujjal Dosanjh:

I don't see a great rush to set up private health care, because we have a very recent experience. Forty-five years is not a long time in the life of a nation. There are people who still remember the dark days of private health care, where people had to sell their farms and sell their homes to care for their loved ones.

Of course, the problem here is that in the absence of government action it isn't the Canadian public at large which gets to choose whether or not a private system is set up - it's those who stand to benefit from it at the public's expense. And all indications are that privatization is happening while Dosanjh does nothing.