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Health Care in Canada.

I'm ashamed.

I'm ashamed of a Government that can close down health care during a national emergency on Christmas and Boxing day, while people are dying and others are justly fearful of dying.

   I'm ashamed at the shameful way we have neglected health care for the elderly and provided so miserably for the people who built this country.

   I'm ashamed when elected officials can have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to issue directives to the people who put them in power and fly (both literally and figuratively) in the face of those directives.

   I'm ashamed when the premier and /or the prime minister hesitate to fire these hypocrites and that leaves me with the feeling that the main offence in their eyes is that their satraps got caught.

   I'm ashamed that members of my former profession have not stood up and spoken out loudly and clearly and I'm ashamed that I didn't do a better job in teaching them to do that.

   I'm ashamed at the poor protection advocacy of physician health care that our professional organizations provide in these perilous times.

   I'm ashamed that we in Canada have gone from being near the top in medical care in the developed countries to near the bottom.

   I'm ashamed of a prime minister whose words mean nothing and whose ethics are non existent.

   We have a lot to be ashamed of, so let's stop patting ourselves on the back and roll up our sleeves.