Consuming soduim more important than health care problems.

Canada’s envied health care system is crumbling apparently because of escalating costs that benefit the corporate section involved in supply insurance for those with the added coverage. Not so much the doctor patient cost for consultation and diagnosis. It is more the cost of drugs that the doctors must prescribe to cure all ills or at least relieve suffering. Health ministers from the provinces and territories met recently in Newfoundland to talk about the situation that some believe might become a crisis. Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq in a press conference after the meeting explained what the Harper Conservative have in mind to deal with the crisis by stating the government is considering imposing a ban on eating too much salt.

Did she propose a solution to the wait times for surgery or even for doctor appointments in parts of the country? Can we expect to pay each time a visit to the doctor become necessary? Will the government that appointed Aglukkaq to lead the country’s health ministry continue to support building hospitals and other health care institutions that match the architectural design of the most lavish government buildings? Will the government work with the provinces to deal with third world health conditions on isolated Canadian First Nation reserves? Will the plans of her government for the future include affordable health care for our children and grandchildren when needed? All of these questions and may more need answers now but all Canadians heard from Minister Aglukkaq was the government’s concern that we consume too much salt and unless it is legislated lower by laws the health care costs will rise. The over consumption of salt by Canadians is rightfully a major concern as it has been since time everlasting but to usurp the real issues of health care to concentrate of outlawing excessive use of sodium in our food is ridiculous. At least we eat better and have more food at our disposal that the greatest percentage of the rest of the world. It is time for Minister Aglukkaq and her party to get real about health care problems.