Humboldt Hospital Tax
posted by redneck stranger on Humboldt Hospital Tax
Humboldt Hospital and 35% Rural Health Tax
There are a number of interesting public policy issues surrounding the recent announcement that the taxpayers of Humboldt and district are required, by the provincial government, to raise millions more for the long promised new hospital.
These issues need to be fully and publicly aired. They include:
1. Is it discrimination for government to demand that rural residents pay for 35% capital construction while urban taxpayers pay nothing?
2. Why can’t Humboldt hospital continue to provide day surgery and other services to help reduce wait times and lists and isn’t that a provincial benefit?
3. What exactly is it that the Humboldt area taxpayers are paying for?
4. Is there a fundamental difference between voluntary fund raising and a Hospital tax?
5. Does a Rural Hospital tax violate the principles of Tommy Douglas’s vision of fair and equitable health care for every citizen of Saskatchewan?
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Humboldt Hospital and 35% Rural Health Tax
There are a number of interesting public policy issues surrounding the recent announcement that the taxpayers of Humboldt and district are required, by the provincial government, to raise millions more for the long promised new hospital.
These issues need to be fully and publicly aired. They include:
1. Is it discrimination for government to demand that rural residents pay for 35% capital construction while urban taxpayers pay nothing?
2. Why can’t Humboldt hospital continue to provide day surgery and other services to help reduce wait times and lists and isn’t that a provincial benefit?
3. What exactly is it that the Humboldt area taxpayers are paying for?
4. Is there a fundamental difference between voluntary fund raising and a Hospital tax?
5. Does a Rural Hospital tax violate the principles of Tommy Douglas’s vision of fair and equitable health care for every citizen of Saskatchewan?
click here to read the rest
Labels: Saskatchewan
posted by Ross at 20:06
3 Comments:
"Oh, No" How dare you use Tommy Douglas and the CCF of the past to show how the present Sask. Gov't really views and treats the people in rural Sask....What would Tommy think of The N.D.P. Oh wait it must be Grant Devine's fault. "isn't everything"
hey, i didn't write this. this is from another one post blog
Yes I know it is from another blog, I find it refreshing that someone will stand up and say what this Prov. Gov't is doing to the rural areas.."sucking them dry"
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