Dr. Day's Fight Has Support Here

I like keeping informed on the trials and tribulations of Dr. Day - a lone, rational, free-thinking voice against an inflexible, monstrous, often illogical government health care apparatus.

"..McPherson, who calls Day a "profiteer" and wants his clinic shut down, accused the Liverpool-born surgeon of breaking his oath of doctor-patient privacy.

"There was no confidentiality breach there - I'm just talking about generic groups of people," Day fires back.

"I've said all along that politicians of all stripes - NDP, Liberal, Conservative - union leaders, including leaders within the nurses' union, high-profile people of all types - they've all been to our clinic for treatment.

Yet, at the same time, many of these same people will say they don't support the private sector in health care. There's a lot of hypocrisy that goes on."

McPherson is everything this blog rages agaisnt - as Tom Morello would say. Yes, we get it. People in the private sector are profiteers. I suppose union leaders are parasitical thugs, then?

No. Fucking. Kidding. Politicians don't want to wait weeks and months for treatments but it's ok for normal citizens to do so. All to satisfy a collective ideology.

Hypocritical. And people who tolerate this deserve to wait in line.

But Canadians are simply not ready to handle the truth.

"Day says he wants to preserve public medicare, not destroy it. He says allowing people to spend their own money at private clinics will reduce demand on the overburdened public system, eliminating wait lists for everyone.

And as the government threatens to sue him for breaking the law, he's suing the government right back, arguing patients have a constitutional right to private health care.

Case in point: On Thursday, Day performed surgery on 79-year-old Erma Krahn, who has lung cancer, and was told she would have to wait 18 months for surgery to repair torn cartilage in her knee.

"She may have terminal cancer, but she still goes for walks and even plays a little golf," Day said. "Then she injured her knee, and all she wants to do is enjoy the quality of life she has remaining. She wants to go for her walks.

"But the government says, 'No, you have to wait.' They handed an 18-month sentence to a woman who may have only 18 months, or less, to live."

Indeed, the government would prefer to eliminate free choice and force her back into the queue. It's all so compassionate, you see. Dattll learn her.

People who are terrified of Day don't seem to grasp that we who think like him don't want to destroy the health system; we just want to offer alternatives. Are we not all free-standing citizens capable of making our own decisions?

It's a little like when liberals assert libertarians want to live in a world absent of rules. Not true. Libertarians accept there's, albeit limited, a role for government to play - pave roads, security, enforcing contracts - that sort of thing.

Where they jump ship is the government can't, for instance, tell you what to eat - if you want to drink raw milk that's YOUR business. It can't be doling out permits to cut fucking hair. It shouldn't prevent street vendors from selling damn hot dogs because some restaurant lobbyist groups argue it's not good for them. It shouldn't be involved in bail outs that leaves them principle shareholders in private companies. And so on. This is the Leviathan we should all guard against.

Claiming his actions will lead to the demise to universal health is false and absurd.

I use private care; to the extent the state "permits" what can be private. That too should change. Baby steps. I'm not ashamed at all. In fact, it brings back sanity into our lives rather than wait 15 hours at a hospital where one doctor is available. I'm not a god dang idiot. This "just be glad we have it" logic ain't cutting it for me any longer.

If people want to crank out their credit cards to pay for a service that's an exchange with the doctor the government has no business interfering in; laws be damned. No federal or provincial bureaucrat should ever actively interfere with the activities of private individuals.

I hope Day wins in court and kicks the government's ass.