American Commercial Misrepresents Canadian Healthcare

A medicine-for-profit-only lobby group slanders universal healthcare.
brycewi19says...

OK. I did "learn more". Patients United Now was launched by a conservative group called American for Prosperity.

From wiki:
In 2003, an internal rift between Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) and its affiliated Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation led to a split in which the latter organization was renamed as a separate organization, called Americans for Prosperity.

Its foundation's chair and founder is David Koch of Koch Industries, which runs oil refining and pipeline companies. Another Americans for Prosperity Foundation board member is Richard Fink, a Koch executive who serves as a director of the refining subsidiary. Fink helps control AFP's purse strings. He is president of the Koch-affiliated Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, which gave AFP's foundation $2.2 million from 2005-06, according to the Foundation Center.

On February 27, 2009, in collaboration with others, the organization sponsored a Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, D.C. Tea party protest.

AFP aims to promote a sound economic policy that supports business and regulatory restraint by government, according to its literature. This organization leans conservative. AFP opposed the $787 billion stimulus package for economic recovery.

The organization has chapters in 22 of the 50 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Americans for Prosperity is led by Tim Phillips, who was a former partner with Ralph Reed's Century Strategies. That organization became well-known when it was revealed in a Senate investigation that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff was laundering money through Century Strategies and Americans for Tax Reform to oppose legislation that his Indian tribe clients wanted to defeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity#Patients_United_Now

HEAVY emphasis on the LIES channel!

dethetersays...

... The video is false.

Alberta Budget 2008 Speech

Calling health care the number one priority for Albertans, she's eliminated health care premiums as of next January 1. The government has also set aside $145 million to attract and retain doctors, and other health care professionals. Health care spending takes up one-third of the provincial budget.

Evans announced $800 million set aside for the Water for Life strategy, $600 million to combat climate change,and $55 million to defeat the pine beetle.

In an appeal to families, Alberta will create 14,000 new care spaces and give tax breaks to those who care for elderly parents at home. After school care will also receive more financing.

Calgary’s mayor Dave Bronconnier got some of what he hoped; the province guaranteed 41 more police officers for Calgary, and more Crown prosecutors.

In all, the province of Alberta will spend $37 billion dollars next budget year, and save $279 million for the Heritage Fund.

The Stelmach governtment is anticippating it will take in more than 38.6-billion dollars this year and spend 37-billion dollars.

That's nearly 10 per cent more than last year.

Right now the surplus is estimated to be 1.6-billion dollars.

The biggest reason for the increase in spending is the health system which will get nearly 10 per cent more money. The Calgary Health Region's budget goes up nearly 200-million dollars.

The 2008 Alberta budget was based on increased oil royalty revenues of $1.8 billion yearly, and a $78 per barrel oil price.

Budget Critics Eye Surplus

Alberta's opposition parties are offering some rare words of praise for the new provincial budget, but others are more critical.

Liberal Leader Kevin Taft says he's delighted to see Premier Ed Stelmach's Tory government eliminate health-care premiums in the new year, although Taft claims this was a Liberal idea.

N-D-P Leader Brian Mason agrees, but he has some problems with the government's modest surplus projection of $1.6 billion.

Mason says if oil remains around the current price, the surplus could end up being five billion dollars higher.

Scott Hennig, with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, says a record 37 billion dollars in spending-12 per cent more than last year-is a recipe for disaster if revenues don't keep pace.

Lloyd Bertschi, president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association, says communities will be happy with increased funding and more cash for affordable housing.

But he has concerns about whether the province will continue to pay the cost of 300 new police officers after a three-year hiring program ends.

Today's budget also includes billions to address Alberta's rapid growth-money for hospitals, schools, roads, crime reduction and efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

dethetersays...

Long story short, Canadians DON'T TALK LIKE HER. wow. Do you hear the words she is saying? If someone walked up to me on the street and said that government shouldn't get between me and my doctor, I'd walk her to a walk in clinic, walk into the doctors office, and say hi. Our health debate is a consensus. Our argument is over making it better, not making it humane.

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