The Lions
Politics • Culture • Education
A group of friends with mostly centrist or conservative viewpoints who share resources and ideas about the governance of Alberta and Canada and about world events and trends.
Interested? Want to learn more about the community?

Learn more first
January 16, 2024

Health coverage was initially for catastrophic events, not minor medical issues

and designed to prevent people from going bankrupt over medical fees. I had a friend who went bankrupt twice over his wife's medical bills before universal coverage was available.

However, that good thing was extended to cover everything down to slivers and stubbed toes, and although there was an annual fee initially in Alberta, that was removed. Doctors were forced to participate and became civil servants.

Free healthcare was never going to work and it was bound to end up like this. We saw this coming back in the seventies when everyone was forced to join. I predicted the governments would incrementally claim ownership over our bodies since maintaining them was a cost. Sure enough we had seat belt and bicycle helmet laws and penates. Cigarettes and liquor were not affected much because they are income for governments. I could go on...

At any rate, we have reached the endpoint where 'healthcare' costs have reached a point where they are unbearable and unsustainable and at the same time the expectations of the public have been raised to where many people expect to live forever regardless of the cost to others.

It is an unreasonable expectation but no politician dares say that gramma is old, reasonable care has been provided, and she should be allowed to die naturally or that there should be limits on how much the public should pay to save one dying person.

Is this mess the way to make Canadians hate the healthcare system and allow limits to be placed on how much is spent on any one person or user fees on minor incidents?

Interested? Want to learn more about the community?

Learn more first
What else you may like…
Posts
9 hours ago

Here Here!!

OPEN LETTER: To the Prime Minister of the "New World Order"
​TO: The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
FROM: Jennifer Elizabeth Telfer
​I. The Banker in the PMO
​You have famously stated on camera, "I'm a banker, not a career politician." That much is evident. Your leadership has treated Canada not as a sovereign nation of citizens, but as a balance sheet to be "optimized" for global investors. You are a technician for a vision that seeks to dismantle national independence in favor of the "variable geometry" of global power you promoted at Davos 2026.
​II. The Death of the Trades & The "Build Canada" Scam
​As someone who has worked in the trades for over 15 years, I see the "holes" in your Build Communities Strong Fund. You talk about "supercharging" homebuilding, but your policies are crushing the people who actually do the work:
​The Productivity Trap: You demand 500,000 homes a year while your "hidden" fuel taxes and inflation make it impossible for ...

post photo preview

Someone finally put the truth in print in a Red Deer obituary. She was 71.
" Six years ago. Val’s health began to be compromised. She battled every day to reverse the vaccine injury after long battle in excruciating pain."

7 hours ago
post photo preview
Available on mobile and TV devices
google store google store app store app store
google store google store app tv store app tv store amazon store amazon store roku store roku store
Powered by Locals