36 Replies to “Just In Time For Lorne Calvert’s Universal Drug Plan Campaign Promise”

  1. I see an opportunity here to solve two problems at once: move Israel to Saskatchewan and everyone wins! Eh? Eh?

  3. I would love to see Brad Wall solve the worldwide Doctor shortage, maybe he can make them magically appear.
    Pharmacare, it is about time. Most of western civilization figured this out generations ago.

  4. Working on old cars I learned that you don’t start on a new project until you have finished the last one.

  6. He could have promises to give us $15.00 for each prescription… Not going tobe able to keep the promise either way because we don’t have enough doctors to give out any prescriptions…

  7. ‘Pharmacare, it is about time. Most of western civilization figured this out generations ago.’
    Where and when did this happen?
    I must of missed it?

  8. Every country in Western Europe has a form of pharmacare. North America sadly trails this intelligent move by decades.

  9. A tiny town of 2200 has a HOSPITAL!?? WTF!! I’ll bet it is more of an old folks home. So that’s where all the tax money goes – ensuring that every little one horse town has a ‘hospital’ … sheeeeeesh!

  10. Saskatchewan has Pharmacare to
    http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/drug-plan-benefits
    Wanda you must not be from small town Saskatchewan. There are many towns of that size with a regional hospital with an emergency ward, because there is a minimum response time for rural services.
    We have universal coverage for all citizens, urban and rural. Take some time and drive to Big Muddy, or East End or Climax or Missinippi and you might figure out why there are needs for rural hospitals.
    You also just stumbled across the biggest reason for the urban, rural divide. Congratulations.

  11. Wanda: Let me enlighten you–just because people live in rural areas does not mean they deserve less health care. In addition, if you look at the region surrounding Canora, you would realize that the hospital serves a much larger population. Here’s another tidbit for you to discuss with your friends at Starbucks: Rural residents also pay way more than their share of property taxes that fund your child’s education. Wise up, sweety.

  12. UNIVERSAL DRUG PLAN!?!?
    LORNE DOES THIS MEAN US JUNKIES CAN STAY STONED ON THE PUBLICK DIME???

  13. Name me anywhere in North Dakota or Alberta or Montana where a little town of 2200 has a hospital!! No wonder our health system is strained trying to keep ‘hospitals’ in every little village. (Only is Saskatchewan …. sheeeeesh)!

  16. Well I see Quimby is making the blog rounds to try and sell his Master’s snake oil. I look forward to my cheap painkillers while I wait 2 months to see a Doctor….what a joke!!!

  17. Wanda, I can name several but here’s a good example: Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital 422 10A Street , Beaverlodge, Alberta.
    Beaverlodge pop. 2264.
    Search “Alberta Hospitals Services” and knock yourself out.

  18. It’s a great idea and you know it. Most people don’t have drug plans at work so this will help. A lot!!

  19. ok4ua,
    Prove that fact.
    Most people that work, work for the government or in a union, or large private employer where they are covered. I personally don’t know a single person that isn’t covered by someone.
    Low income jobs don’t have plans, but the existing Saskatchewan drug plan covers them, also welfare and EI covers people that aren’t working.
    There is also already a catastrophic drug plan available.

  20. Mayor Quimby – you say you would like to see Brad Wall solve the doctor shortage in Saskatchewan. The only way to make that happen is to vote for his party. How about it?

  22. Great Plan I’m sure, of course admin’d by lackeys and beureaucrats, well placed and located in Regina. Long and short, as many seniors have found out, it ain’t gonna be covered. Makes a good press release though!!
    Regardless of the assets that exist in Saskatchewan, the long and short is, service, concern, and actual care for the elderly and sick is not the focus of NDP policy. Witness the recent Rosetown Elderly couple seperation (great job Heartland/Heartless) and the bumped anurism surgery of the Luseland lady (not critical till ya die, right??)
    It is however, about getting elected, a good soundbite, appeareance of concern, and staying there.
    Wonderful thing the internet and cyberspace, informantion transfer, and open communication.
    From the periphery, the NDP is corrupt (Meadow Lake (unsecured creditors etc, deals with slimy offshore firms), pedophile payoffs/coverups, PA delusions, market interventions (competion/interference with private industry (the few that exist, etc)), and with grandois plans (no funding), high taxes (school portion/ eveywhere except certain urban regions(go figure)), re-announcement of past plans (highways, etc), the list is huge, Oh did I mention rural regions have been shafted for years and the roads suck??
    Long and short, anyone not seeing the immediate and pressing need for change, is without doubt, delusional, or a rabid core NDP’er. Sad but true, they are out there.
    Protection of position and job likely a concern, but fact is, it’s a mirage. Sooner or later (hopefully sooner) reality and rationale sets in.
    A true diamond in the rough. At which point it decides to enbrace the future remains to be seen.
    Such promise, such a shame.

  23. Keeping the NDP in powerin Saskatchewan is great for Alberta. Talented people and money flow here regularly when we have socialists in BC and Sask. Cheers for the NDP!!

  24. I just bet that wanda will look up some facts before she asks questions on this blog again. A SDA reader is an informed reader.
    BTW, where did she say she was from?

  25. We have more people moving back from Alberta than visa versa. A lot of people do not have a drug plan esp retired workers. Some people retire before 65.

  26. Wow ok4. What wonderful news. We have lots of retired workers moving back here who don’t have enough money to buy their prescriptions. That is the kind of people we really need to atract to get this province growing.

  27. great trade.
    Alberta can shift its retirees to Saskatchewan and bring its productive workers here.
    I cant see anything wrong with that , well unless I was from Saskatchewan.

  28. a drug plan?????what the heck…perhaps good times lorne should spend some of his oil surplus on fixing the highways..he just turned highway 44 from dinsmore east back to gravel. this is in hermanson’s old riding…..its payback for not voting for the dippers.
    i hope wall can kick these sob’s out for a long time.

  29. Sean Hannity today had a half hour about all the pregnant Canadian women with a medical condition that doesn’t allow a waiting list, and thus flying to America.
    When Hillary receives the Democratic nomination every Conservative in America will be pointing the finger while loudly saying “look at Canada”, and I CAN’T WAIT!!!

  30. ok4ua; So if somebody can afford to retire before 65, I should have to pay for his prescriptions? Even though I am probably going to have to work until I’m 68 or 69. Thanks a whole bunch.

  31. Going online and noticing the extremely high number of university students and twenty somethings openly supporting the Sask Party, along with my fellow thirty somethings who are completely fed up, I have come to believe that Unless Brad Wall “hangs a rat” on television, the NDP don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning this election. They were miles behind in the polls before this election was kicked off and they have done anything to help the cause since.
    Also, I believe that they are incredibly desperate this time because they realize that if the recent trend of Albertans repatriating Saskatchewan continues for the next few years, they will never gain control of Saskatchewan again.

  33. where in the hell is the talk about reducing Education taxes on my house? this is a regressive tax and it hurts families. will someone please start talking about reducing taxes and not about spending more and more of my money on other people.

  34. Has “the mighty Lorne” ever heard of Group Medical Services or Blue Cross? I pay my annual premuims and they take good care of me. My wife’s employer covers off the balance.
    We must also consider that “Tommy’s” plan will only cover drugs that fall under the Sask. Plan. That means that that the “drug dealers” can remove any drugs that they see fit.
    How many Sask residents have died because these “educated” (Safeway), cabinet ministers would not look at avastin for cancer patients. I has personally been invovled with a patient who has paid thousands for avastin and her life has been extended beyond belief.
    These socialists have to go. They wanted to regulate our hours of work, they want their non supporters to leave the province. They promise tax relief (rheteric), they pay their “harassment in the work place” manager $275,000 to be quiet and threaten those he harassed.
    Why did the PA Pulp Mill close? The NDP Union boys put the pressue on George Weyerhouser and he said screw you and left town. Check it out!!
    It is time ( 60 years) that these socialists and their unnion pals packed they bags and moved on.
    The world, however, is getting smaller for them. In North America they have Cuba, Manitoba (I suspect they don’t want them), and possibly Quebec.
    I suspect that there may be some opportunity in South America; and of course, Russia and China.

  35. The drug plan is meant for people who don’t have a company plan.You guys are so one demensional.

  36. The drug plan is for votes and will create another gov. dept to oversee and will create more jobs.Then everyone can have the same tier of health care as civil servants as soon as hearing, optical and the other goodies are added.
    Who cares if we can afford it as long as everything is free!

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