{"id":3503,"date":"2020-04-18T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T19:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2020-04-18T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T19:03:17","slug":"canada-letter-how-can-it-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/04\/18\/canada-letter-how-can-it-happen-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Letter: How can it happen here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This<em><a href=\"https:\/\/messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com\/template\/oakv2?campaign_id=50&#038;emc=edit_cnda_20200418&#038;instance_id=17751&#038;nl=canada-letter&#038;productCode=CNDA&#038;regi_id=58403395&#038;segment_id=25451&#038;te=1&#038;uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2Fe11f69ec-f7ef-499b-8e2f-f0048a376092&#038;user_id=9c72b32ce124e1c6c09b2638c7132f76\">New York Times &#8216;Canada Letter&#8217;<\/a><\/em> is a welcome contribution to the exposure of the evils of private care facilities. <\/p>\n<p>My only problem with the article is Susan Bartlett&#8217;s reference to reticence about complaining out of &#8220;deference for our health care system&#8221;. These loathsome private facilities are not part of Canada&#8217;s public health care system, but rather have been allowed to encroach on and exploit that system by right wing politicians eager to turn that system into an American-style profit generation machine. (And indeed when Bartlett first did her research the situation may have been different, as there are many cases of former public and non-profit facilities having been bought out or forced into management contracts with private for-profit operators.) I&#8217;d say such things should happen only &#8220;over my dead body&#8221; but sadly am reaching the age where that is becoming more and more likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThisNew York Times &#8216;Canada Letter&#8217; is a welcome contribution to the exposure of the evils of private care facilities. My only problem with the article is Susan Bartlett&#8217;s reference to reticence about complaining out of &#8220;deference for our health care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/04\/18\/canada-letter-how-can-it-happen-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}