Surplus created by underfunding health care

I have just waited 10 months for a 10-minute test to see if I had a malignant tumour or not. My physician stated “urgent” on the requisition. “Urgent” used to mean immediately.

Too many are dying while waiting to receive proper medical care, which isn’t there because of drastic government underfunding in order to convince the gullible that they have a “surplus.”

By cutting Medical Services Plan premiums in half, they are not helping to restore the damage caused by years of underfunding and self-serving neglect. As waiting times get longer, health problems deteriorate and become more expensive, as well as requiring lengthier hospital care.

Cutting the cost of these premiums in half does not make it any easier to die, for those of us who might have to due to wilful government neglect. By no stretch of the imagination does this government have a surplus; just stop making your mortgage payments and see how your surplus causes you to lose your house.

No government should be allowed to stay in power whose actions or inactions can wilfully cause pain suffering or even death.

They lied to get into power, and have lied to stay in power, and are still lying to do it again. If they are elected again, then you who voted for them will well deserve them, but the rest of us surely do not. John A. Martin Nanaimo