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6- Sunday, duly 6, 1997 ~ North Shore News

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____ VIEWPOINT

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- Get the popcorn

EHIND all” the _ political
rhetoric. burying West Vancou-
ver-Capilano MLA Jeremy
“Dalton over his ill-fated letters to
~ archeology bureaucrats, there really is
an issue for private property owners
throughout B.C,’
Native heritage claims will affect

-law and his wife in the Chilcotin.
If the government chooses to buy
off landowners for every native burial
and heritage | site it will banks upt this
Province, quickly. (3° *.. ©
: If natives go about 1 claiming land
‘thers -are'going ‘to be~

roblems °— : t

it by’
husband and éon- in-

ton es confrorited by
and ‘thei ‘bi bright: lights

last week he spouted that he couldn’t
bring reporters up to speed on the
issuc in five minutes. The fact that he
might have a point beneath the blus-
ter was overlooked.

He’s taken a deserved licking from
the press, his own party, and the NDP,
who have gleefully steered the sordid

_ episode past the long microphones to

their best advantage.
Dalton overstates the private prop-

-erty issue with comments calling
_ native claims “outrageous Indian sug-

gestions about heritage.”
But until all B.C. land’ claiins are
settled — and that includes three on

the North Shore.-- don’t. think this

is just Jeremy’s problem.
He. told the press. they stepped i in

this movie halfway through. The issue. ”

FOR GAWDS SAKE,

CAN'T

T You coveR up?)

THERE'RE CHILDREN

PRESENT.

ay, become a serial. Two choices: get

; the Pepeorn or hit ¢ the mute button,

, 2 LAST week ¥ we took a stab at

: diagnosing t the ‘problem of soar- 7
> ing’ medicare costs

which the
BCMA) wants to .

0:
-» gare by replacing ©
= medicare sith'a

dekay the legal costs fiiced by the News,in’
attle’ with the: Human "tae asp Tribunal ove

it challeriged ‘this hor- ; -

wishes: ‘for
come of t this important fight?
: ter, Poller

I regard fre ear as the greatest of. ftom

wish all concerned would start using the word “

7 “two- ticr” system.!

Promotiny paid top-

-. quality care-for the rich
in private clinics and free”
)whatever-quality « care is
"left over for the poor.in’ ’

ublic’facilities is the top’
gl priority, according
to new BCMA president, .

ater gD. Granger, Avery, In

- more’ painstaking, thera

‘short, simply amputate medicare’s s sick’.
budget instead of treating it with the
rapy it really needs
= an ongoing series 0 ‘sharp: pencil pro-

th Great; cedures.

4
r

chaviorist?.

rather than: racist’, for’ that is what. we all mean:”

Joyce Davies, ‘North Vancouver r

: look forward to, ‘and coery one eof
your | mews pieblications and enclose our cheques to help ~

defray jour cists in-deferding the right of free speech.: ‘We
\are'so Appreciative of, your valiant efforts on freedom’s.

* behalf. a §g

Universal medicare i is bleed is to
*. death financially siot because of its.
admirable. goal but because.of ‘multiple.
inefficiencies in the system which would”
quickly bankrupt ‘any free-
poration. : mee r

Below are just a few sharp- pencil tar-
gets identifie by various management
experts,

most insisting on working in the cities:
instead of rural communities where they
are often badly. needed? From 1981: to
‘1991 their‘numbers swelled by 36%,
while the population grew by a mere’

12%. This disparity suggests an inevitable

trend to the over-servicing of patients .

terprise cor :
‘expensive high- “tech diagnostic proce: ,
First, do we bave too many doctors _

~ population growth. How many are gen ,
‘uinely necessary? How many patients are

(“it’s for free, 30 5 why not, take ie)

‘The method of pa ing doctors lit
ie but more co! iciently) needs'a
hard look. For those. working solely out
of hospitals;'with no office overhead

” straight salaries might’:
be in order. Paying an. .
annual lump sum to
group practices of six
or more physicians
> sharing a commo
office and ‘support staff
could cut overhead: and
discowtrage uyer-servi
‘ing (theyrd lose on
. Some patients, gain on

ffects) can ‘tead to. firther health ‘ca
costs for, the.victim.

can be pertormed ade

giiately by nurses, midwives anid other
'- para-medical personnel ¢ at lower cost than
“a doctor's fee —~ and should be. Or if doc,

insists on doing it himself, ay. him for,

that job ata nurse's or midwive’s rate

Modest user-fees — say, $5-$10 —

"visits to a dostinr’s office would seent rea-
.. sonable for wa

earners and their families.

Welfare recipients, seniors and children’s

vaccinations could be exempted...
. Major money- gobblers are today’s raise:

~ campaign (0 end Third World,
ciency disease kicks off Weds

dures, B.C.’s 1991 royal commission on’ ci ks off
when Art'and Miny are he
‘ut: ern i

health-care, costs again‘found diagnostic .
tests increasing over twice as fast as the”

sent to be checked by the latest wonder’ *

gizmo primarily to safeguard the physi-

cian against possible malpractice Suits?
‘Similarly with prescription ‘ind ave

the-counter drugs, now costing some * reat idea hits’

7, Don and Sheron Specht, West Vancouver and, in turn, to over: -demand y Patients

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