Ao - Wednesday, December 19, 1984 - North Shore News GS editorial News Viewpoint Health care tab ions Gate Hospital, like others in B.C., is facing another acute crisis unless the goverment loosens its health care purse strings. The present indication that there will be no extra funding in 1985 almost certainly means more bed closures, more employee layoffs and ever longer line-ups for elective surgery. LGH administrator John Borthwick sees a 6% budget increase next year as essential merely to cover built-in inflation plus the escalating bill for sophisticated medical technology and new drugs. The availability here of the two latter items, whose cost is afflicting hospitals ir every western country, explains why we have one of the world’s finest medicare systems. With our aging population, one gut question is whether we're prepared to settle for LESS than the best science now offers? If not, and if---as reputable medical pro- fessionals fear---further hospital cutbacks threaten the health of the community and even individual lives, it may be high time for the public to send a strong signal to Victoria warning that health care is not to be jeopar- dized at any price. Without cuts in other social services, of course, such a demand could only be met through higher taxes, higher medicare fees or both. Moreover, such increases would be ongoing, since health care costs, by their nature, are virtually open-ended. If, therefore, the public feels decisions about health and life itself are (oo vital to be left to politicians, it must show readiness to take responsibility for the priorities---by picking up the tab. Safe home! hile everyone else is talking about catching and = charging = drinking drivers, the Key Restaurant in Nanaimo has come up with a solution much more in the spuit oof Christmas. 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