Mike Murphy sure has been getting it from all sides lately concerning the new Health-care system. The French are scared of losing services, the English says it's too expensive, the North says it's not enough and the South says it's being neglected. I know pleasing everybody is impossible but this is getting ridiculous. New Brunswickers have been screaming bloody murder for the last 10+ years about a lack of doctors, a lack of patient services and long waiting lines at the hospital. Interestingly enough, that’s what Murphy’s been trying to do, and has accomplish some steps in the right direction so far, yet people are still ranting and raving.
We use to have 7 regions. Seven!! Think of the people it takes to run all these regions. Most of the French administrators came from Quebec. Think of the room these offices take. I am positive that many of those administrators were honest hard working people, however there are a lot of these special interest group administrators who are quite content with passing the buck. Supplied housing, supplied car, travel expenses and 6-digit salaries are all part of the job for those high level administrators.
But I am getting off topic here. Like any illness, our health care system needed an emergency appendectomy of sorts and Murphy went in scalpel-a-swinging. Less money for administrators means more money for doctors. Less room for offices means more beds for patients. Fewer regions to equip means less duplication in services. Anybody following me here?
Look, I really don’t care if Mike Murphy is arrogant; if he gets the job done I’m happy. I don’t care if he’s a Liberal or a Conservative, I want more doctors. I don’t care if he drives a fancy car, I just don’t want my/your mom-aunt-sister travelling fours hours a day three times a week for her dialysis.
Basically, I believe there was a big problem in our health care services and at least Murphy is trying to do something about it. We can’t always be thinking of Me, Myself and I, sometimes we have to think about how a system can be better as a whole, for more people.
Anyway, we had a sick health system, the operation has been done, now we wait for the healing. Stop picking at the wound if you don’t want a scar. Give it time.
It’s about time they removed the cyst instead of putting band-aids over it.
We use to have 7 regions. Seven!! Think of the people it takes to run all these regions. Most of the French administrators came from Quebec. Think of the room these offices take. I am positive that many of those administrators were honest hard working people, however there are a lot of these special interest group administrators who are quite content with passing the buck. Supplied housing, supplied car, travel expenses and 6-digit salaries are all part of the job for those high level administrators.
But I am getting off topic here. Like any illness, our health care system needed an emergency appendectomy of sorts and Murphy went in scalpel-a-swinging. Less money for administrators means more money for doctors. Less room for offices means more beds for patients. Fewer regions to equip means less duplication in services. Anybody following me here?
Look, I really don’t care if Mike Murphy is arrogant; if he gets the job done I’m happy. I don’t care if he’s a Liberal or a Conservative, I want more doctors. I don’t care if he drives a fancy car, I just don’t want my/your mom-aunt-sister travelling fours hours a day three times a week for her dialysis.
Basically, I believe there was a big problem in our health care services and at least Murphy is trying to do something about it. We can’t always be thinking of Me, Myself and I, sometimes we have to think about how a system can be better as a whole, for more people.
Anyway, we had a sick health system, the operation has been done, now we wait for the healing. Stop picking at the wound if you don’t want a scar. Give it time.
It’s about time they removed the cyst instead of putting band-aids over it.
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