“What would not be pleasure and happiness of a citizen to say “I have just received a nice present $18,000 because I had both my hips changed and then it didn’t cost me anything,” Minister Christian Dubé said on December 8 on Radio-Canada. The italics are mine. No, at that price, we’re not talking about changing car tires. But rather bills for medical care paid by the government and intended for the sick.
A former co-worker, who worked for 50 years and finally had her hip replacement, after two years of waiting and suffering, is surely happy to learn that she was lucky. That should make for a more pleasant rehabilitation. Patients who receive hemodialysis treatments three times a week for life so as not to die will surely experience a great deal of “pleasure” and “happiness” from knowing how expensive it is for their fellow citizens. It should help them endure their treatments. Especially, for the older ones, maybe other solutions […] might come to mind. After all, retirees, unless they are volunteers, have seemingly zero economic value. Treatments are tiring in the long run, and not just for the patients. And then, the aging of the population is so heavy to bear financially for the young generation, we regularly report, in more or less veiled words. So much for the contribution of a life of these elders.
As for me, I can’t wait to receive the bills for my excellent cancer treatments. The “beautiful gift” from the government will make me more serene. Above all, it will give me the opportunity to send the minister a copy of my income tax returns for the past 10 years (that will be more than enough). We will take stock. I can count too. As for those who perhaps abuse our emergencies, they will probably be indifferent to the bills that we will send them.
Instead, I suggest to the Minister, who is otherwise doing an excellent job, not to unnecessarily burden the administration of the network with these bills, but rather to continue to improve the accessibility of care in Quebec. There is still a long way to go.
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