• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Tbf as much as I hate cons, when the liberals or ndp take power, they rarely reinstate the cuts.

    Recently I’ve had issues with my back that requires physio, plantar fasciitis which requires a foot doctor, medication for anxiety, and a skin condition that requires a dermatologist.

    None of my issues are covered by Ohip. Not physio to heal me, not a podiatrist to fix my feet, not the meds, not the dermatologist.

    It’s like what do I even pay taxes for at this point if nothing is covered. How is it better or cheaper for the government that I go on disability and take welfare, instead of them just paying for my healthcare so I can do my job?

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      10 months ago

      [To be fair,] as much as I hate cons,

      And then you slam the cons the entire time.

      If you want better care, ensure you’re voting for better care than the cons. Get your friends on board with the idea of voting in better government if they aren’t already.

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        10 months ago

        I’ve voted for liberal and ndp throughout my life. I’m happy they won but they didn’t end up helping me one bit. I would never vote conservative, but I can see how people would, when the liberals and ndp are also all talk

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        10 months ago

        Honestly, sounds fair to the cons to me - the Liberals clearly suck and the NDP has been out of power long enough that I can’t tell if they’ll suck or not (I hope they won’t though)… but neither comes close to the astronomical levels of shit eating the CPC manages. The comment above was rather generous to the CPC.

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          10 months ago

          The NDP has never been in power federally. Why do people think otherwise?

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            10 months ago

            Well, for one, healthcare is a provincial matter, so their election record federally would seem to be less of a concern for the current topic?

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      10 months ago

      Tbf as much as I hate cons, when the liberals or ndp take power, they rarely reinstate the cuts.

      That’s deliberate: the only way to reverse the cuts is to increase taxes, and because the system was broken, taxes have to go up more than they were previously to rebuild the system, and there’ll be an interregnum between when taxes go up and when the service is delivered and people notice the benefits.

      This was Mike Harris’ masterclass lesson in Ontario: break the state so comprehensively you effectively tie the hands of anyone who comes after you, making it impossible for them to fix it without a heavy political cost. You’d need a very dynamic, charismatic leader, one willing to weather years of criticism from capitalists and their lapdogs, to reverse those changes and (to use an Ontario example) McGuinty was the opposite of dynamic and charismatic.