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Founder Of Socialized Medicine In Canada Calls For More Privatization

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-27 07:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 How's that socialized working out for ya up north?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-02-27 14:07|| 2008-02-27 14:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Related: Recent report on Vancouver BC radio is that Canada has a severe shortage of nurses, need 2000 now and as many as 20k w/in about 5 yrs. probably has soemthing to do with compensation.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-02-27 14:21|| 2008-02-27 14:21|| Front Page Top

#3 EVERYWHERE has a huge shortage of nurses. You have to be smart, take hard classes in school, and then work hard at an often thankless job; the pay is not all that bad, but there are just too many easier careers for people with the ability and attitude nursing takes.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-02-27 18:23|| 2008-02-27 18:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Hee, hee, hee,..................

Posted by no mo uro 2008-02-27 19:27|| 2008-02-27 19:27|| Front Page Top

#5 And note - The body of medical knowledge that a registered nurse has today and the body of medical knowledge a doctor had in, say, 1920 or 1930. Duties [read also status/authority] executed by nurses today and those executed by doctors back then. Does this really make sense?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-27 19:30|| 2008-02-27 19:30|| Front Page Top

#6 my Mom is a CA RN, and never made good money til she left nursing and joined, first, Agouron (sp?), then Pfizer, as a clinical trial overseer. She's retired now, before Pfizer did their RIF

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-27 20:20|| 2008-02-27 20:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I've seen this coming for some time. When the Supreme Court rules a system unconstitutional because people on waiting lists are dying ... floodgates to privatization open.

Posted by Clem Sheck9754 2008-02-27 22:53|| 2008-02-27 22:53|| Front Page Top

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