{"id":16676,"date":"2008-03-13T20:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=16676"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:10:11","slug":"045-health-care-in-ontario-lucky-to-be-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/16676","title":{"rendered":"045 &#8211; Health care in Ontario: Lucky to be dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/045_No_Smoking_168x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16678\" \/><audio preload=\"none\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS-2008\/20080313-justRIGHT-045-HEALTH-FRENCH-smokingBAN-DRUGS-downtown.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Your browser does not support the audio element<\/audio><br \/>\nEmergency rooms turn into battle zones where patients wait 24 hours for beds and ambulance crews linger in hallways, yet politicians insist on expanding the very model that creates the crisis. Socialized health care operates as the ultimate pyramid scheme that enriches early participants at the expense of later generations, transforming a supposed right into a privilege granted only to the severely ill.<\/p>\n<p>Official bilingualism exposes its one-sided reality, prioritizing French in practice despite demographics where Spanish, Arabic, and Polish outrank it, while fostering an entitlement mentality that drains public resources on translation and settlement services. Multicultural funding divides rather than unites, prompting calls for integration that still rely on taxpayer dollars to promote separate cultural organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed smoking bans in cars with children serve as symbolic gestures of nanny-state control, using vulnerable groups as legal wedges to erode private rights and ignore the slippery slope already crossed in bars, restaurants, and beyond. Drug policies rest on historical falsehoods rather than genuine health concerns, fueling prohibition that contradicts evidence and inflates enforcement costs. Downtown renewal schemes repeat the pattern of government intervention that ignores taxation and regulation as root causes of decline.<\/p>\n<p>These contradictions highlight the steady assault on individual freedoms in the name of collective protection. Only by reclaiming personal responsibility do matters become Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"custom-button\" href=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/045-Transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transcript<\/a> <a class=\"custom-button\" href=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your browser does not support the audio element Emergency rooms turn into battle zones where patients wait 24 hours for beds and ambulance crews linger in hallways, yet politicians insist on expanding the very model that creates the crisis. Socialized health care operates as the ultimate pyramid scheme that enriches early participants at the expense <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/16676' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16680,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions\/16680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}