Comment as of Jan. 22, 2015 about any of these older statements I made on Canadian health care: some of the principles are still good. I wouldn’t express things the same way now for every point. “Free market” has become associated with fraudulent banking practices (probably deliberately as part of the false left-right dialectic). In addition to independent healthcare providers, if “for profit” is really not appropriate for many, then we could probably have a publicly shared voluntary system that was popular enough to support itself–if we lived in a society where we could trade and do business freely (and speak freely about health care alternatives for that matter) and had plenty of jobs and wealth. But now we’re just getting more and more of a controlled rationing system that is cut to the bone and becomes privatized under the control of monopolies–with the so-called “right to die” cleverly added in eventually.

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November 15 Debate (Agincourt Collegiate)
Opening Statement (Approximate)

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I’d like to thank all of you and the sponsors of this event for giving me this opportunity to express my views.

My wife has suffered from mental illness, so we have spent a lot of time at the Scarborough Grace Hospital, and I appreciate the service provided by its hard-working staff. So my criticism is not directed at anyone’s efforts to do their best with the system we have.

However, as a Libertarian, I believe we must bring to an end this failed experiment in centrally planned government controlled health care.

In a Libertarian system, the government would be limited to protecting basic individual rights and would not limit our health care choices.

The reason we have SHORTAGES in facilities and health care providers – with patients waiting and suffering – is because we use government to limit the choices of others.

If you realize that, then please support Free Market Health Care and vote Libertarian, vote for Alan Mercer.

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