Harry:
If doctors are so darned concerned about the public pocketbook, why do they concentrate their efforts on minor areas like bicycle injuries? Are their not more head injuries among automobile and truck drivers than among cyclists? Then who better needs a helmet law?
Likewise there should be no excuse for a pedestrian to preambulate about unprotected by a helmet. The pedestrian is exposed to the danger of being struck by a missdirected car or truck, or even an errant cyclist, or exposed to injury from falls, caused by tripping or slipping. Should not everyone in the nanny state have equal responsibility to ensure that he or she does not overburden the nanny state with medical costs?
It galls me that the socialists politicize healthcare by offering public funded "socialized medicine" and then use it to take control of the lives of those who pay for it. I live in Regina Saskatchewan, the birthplace of North American Socialized Medicine.
See the P.S. below.
Ed Bratt Regina, Saskatchewan
P. S.
Taken from the Regina Manifest, found here:
http://204-225-123-146.xdsl.convoke.net/
1.. 8. Socialized Health Services Publicly organized health, hospital and medical services With the advance of medical science the maintenance of a healthy population has become a function for which every civilized community should undertake responsibility. Health services should be made at least as freely available as are educational services today. But under a system which is still mainly one of private enterprise the costs of proper medical care, such as the wealthier members of society can easily afford, are at present prohibitive for great masses of the people. A properly organized system of public health services including medical and dental care, which would stress the prevention rather than the cure of illness should be extended to all our people in both rural and urban areas. This is an enterprise in which Dominion, Provincial and Municipal authorities, as well as the medical and dental professions can cooperate.
Closing statement:
No C.C.F. Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and Put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Cooperative Commonwealth.