Stephen Harper's Strange Answers to Healthcare Issue

In the debate last night Stephen Harper claimed that "alternative service delivery" is not private healthcare.

What is it? The laying of hands? Will be put us in a hut and pound us with fig leaves?

He also referred to our public healthcare system as "health insurance". In other words, HMOs. Not once did he mention 'universal' or the 'Canada Health Act'.

He did get a kind of glazed, deer in the headlights look when Jack Layton brought up groups he had been involved with, most American based and all hoping to cash in on Canadians being sick.

If he can't be honest about this, what else is he hiding?

On May 2, vote and vote wisely.

Harper Government Poised to Scrap Canada Health Act: We Knew it Was Just a Matter of Time

Stephen Harper did not spend three decades with the National Citizens Coalition, four years as it's president, for nothing.

This group was originally founded to scrap the Canada Health Act and put an end to free health care, though eventually it became a vehicle for corporate greed.

So it's finally happened. So as not to get his hands dirty, Harper is allowing a backbencher to wear it ... putting out feelers.

It's being suggested that Bernier is vying for party leadership, but he's talking and Harper doesn't allow his MPs to talk. I think there's something else going on here.

Billions for planes, corporate tax cuts and prisons is OK. Keeping a nation healthy, not his priority.