Banging The Snooze Button On Saturday

Sibling Synergy
CampbellVille

I made a big mistake last night when I left the clock radio tuned to the (not-so)Giant '98 after listening to the the Canucklehead's game.

As a result, I was jolted awake this morning by the caterwauling of Michael Campbell.

And what I learned from my early morning scolding delivered by the Premier's brother is that anyone who is concerned about the consequences of increased private delivery for a universal public health care system is an idiot.

And one of the reasons for this self-delusional idiocy is the fact that, according to Campbell the Michael, fully 75% of our delivery is already private.

This is a statement he made most emphatically while inferring that anyone who didn't know it is actually an ostrich of very little brain.

Now, I have no idea of such a statement has even a grain of truth to it.

But the way Mr. Campbell trumpeted it as a reason for needing more private delivery is nothing short of bizarre.

Why?

Because if it is true it indicates that the runaway costs in our health care system are being driven not by the 25% of the delivery that is public, but rather by the 75% that is private.

And if that is, indeed, the case it would seem that even the most simplistic version of bean counter logic would lead one to conclude that it is the public, not the private, delivery that should be expanded to control costs and promote sustainability.

But, then again, no one has ever said that the glimmer twins built their empire of simplistic sibling synergy on stone cold logic.

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