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HE B squeaking of squash ‘shoes
“and the crunch of a well-exe-
cuted hip check will likely 'soon
be a memory at the Cap West Country
Club. |
After .42 years of playing host to
‘tournaments and members, — the ,
. Fullerton Avenue club. will! close,
-Larco has : announced the move is
ostensibly duc to safety concerns.
The West. Vancouver: development
- company. has owned the, site..since
1988. It says it will cost more ‘than $4
«million to fix the rink, court and ‘pool
‘complex. °
Not’ surprisingly, Late would
\ “rather. put its money into developing |

~ townhomes and condominiuins, Their:
- last. proposal called for 197- ‘condo-:

- miniums and a community 6 centre; on’
the

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gy costs

As often happens in cases where
powerful developers butt heads with
residents, council strikes a comunittee,
Voila, the Lower Capilano Com:
‘munity Facilities Committee was)
‘born, even though-a year’s worth or
debate on the Larco site led to a dea
* end, !

The new committee will look at the
community’s need for facilities and

park space and try to find opportuni-
ties to satisfy those needs within the
Lower Capilano area. -

With 500 potential young hockey
players sidelined because there’s no
space, the need .is there. Council ..
‘should strike’a deal with Larco or, ¥
hang tough with the ‘current zoning.

But the community can’t afford to
‘watch council.:dither-while much-,
Ai needed amenities lic dormant and”

‘Does yamin for |

" ONCE more the ‘docs are on the“
J warpath against: universal
. medicare. Promoting private .
“health care in a two-tier system’ is .

dev clop a private sector,” warns the CEO ;
afore major London hospital. “You
colald wind up. with the ‘American sete
of poor. public hospitals..: poor facilities
__ poor people who are using them:and rich
noe private. ospitats almost,
check, by jowl.!
. Allth having be
‘faid, however, we'r
still stuck'with the:

hey. includ

_ity for the B.C. °

‘Medical. Association
So says ‘the new..

“$2,408 a year for,
_ mah, Woman and chil

Canadian. Granger Avery, His pre-

“aes? ‘indore prcat
sought'in many difter

ption’ genre: use abot 10% ‘of ail

Bess Th rapped into the matter, whi

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« health care costs); and
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their budget! On: Sunday ‘
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decessor, Dr. Derryck
Smt, even calls tA doc-. _ in Canada, and edging:
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: “only way to halt the spiralling and atready

— Tiki of West Vancouver

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"unsustainable. costs of universal inedicare,

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or by suffering °
with its hospital bed ‘closures.and ever ‘of care in the
longer line-ups for surgery.” ;
> Lerting-well-heeled patients pay for:
_ treatment in private clinics will soon’.
shorten the ine-ups for the money-less

- plebs who remain dependent'on ,,
medicare, goes the argument. Medicare prise operations. ‘The trouble with |
costs will be corralled and everyone-~: ‘medicare, as Fisincial Foss editor Diane. - :
especially the doctors’ running: the private «Francis Points out, is ‘that it’s a “frees. -
clinics—will be happy. enterprise” operation (for che financial
‘Happy like in Britain, which has j just benelit of medics and unionized health «
the kind of two-tier system they propose :: ‘care workers) paid tor with a blank tax-
for Canada? What the Brits have found is ‘payers’ cheque.-One result is wasteful
thac medical talent and resources ., » Over-Servicing of patients and wasteful”.
"inevitably, gravitate ‘to the profit-making. oxer-deman by patients. Gs GP narrowly ed cd
rivate sector. Lower-income patients arc ” But.improving medicare efficiericy i isa ,Hatry Cottle.
left with hospitals staffed by graduates - “tot more complicated than that. The main) 20"
just-out of medical school, starved of problem is the multitude of different 2c”
state-of- the-art eqkipment and offering —_- ways to do it. “So much. of what dents
» heateh care of markedly lower quality. “the budget i in health care:is little-ticket ap
“Canada would be utterly i insane to - items,” says Dr. David Naylor, of ‘

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an ever diminishing qu
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