Sensible Solutions…
An NDP government would forgive the student loans of new family doctors who remain in general practice at least 10 years, NDP Leader Jack Layton pledged on Monday.
The debt amnesty is part of the party’s proposed health-care plan, which calls for $1 billion over five years to increase the number of medical students across the country by 1,200 annually and the number of nursing students by 6,000 a year.
The increased number of doctors would ultimately improve patient care and reduce wait times for Canadians, which, Layton said, was a key policy promise broken by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper in the last federal election.
You can buy all the fancy machines you want, but without the staff to operate them or even provide basic care, they are useless. It’s really not a question of bed space or wait times, we lack the bodies and the commitment to those who care for the sick to get our health care system back on track.
We created it, I think we might know a little bit about fixing it.
Political Beaver, salsa and socialism, why some of my best friends are...