Medical Jobs created by Layton

Jersay

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Winnipeg — NDP Leader Jack Layton took his message back to health care, proposing a fund to train more medical professionals and promising to prevent using federal cash for private insurance.

The NDP leader said his party would lobby for legislation to stop federal money from being funneled to provinces that allow private health insurance for medically-necessary services under medicare.

Mr. Layton said both Quebec and Alberta have plans to allow for-profit, private health insurance plans after the federal election. "We'll amend federal-provincial transfer legislation to ban the use of federal funds to subsidize any for-profit, private insurance system for medically necessary services under medicare," Mr. Layton said.

Mr. Layton's plan would train more medical professionals could fund the equivalent of another 16,000 nursing training spots. It would cost $200-million a year.

Also on Thursday, Mr. Layton refused to say which of the other parties he'd prefer to work with in the next Parliament, but says he doesn't see any common ground with the Conservatives.

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Mr. Layton insists the New Democrats are a viable third option to the Liberals and Conservatives in the Jan. 23 election. So he dismisses questions about which of the other two parties he'd prefer to work with if there's another minority government.

Tory Leader Stephen Harper appeared to reach out to Mr. Layton and talked about working with NDP on issues such as proposals for electoral reform.

But campaigning in Winnipeg, Mr. Layton said the Conservatives are “offside with the views of a great majority of Canadians” on most issues — including abortion — and have little in common with the New Democrats.

He said it would take a major research project to uncover the similarities between the two parties, and said he was too busy campaigning to look for them.

Mr. Layton also continued to take shots at Paul Martin, calling the Liberals "arrogant and corrupt."

Mr. Layton also criticized the two front-running parties for offering so-called patient guarantees as part of their health-care strategies.

“Proclaiming health-care guarantees will not reduce waiting times,” he said. “Training more doctors and nurses will.”
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Timetrvlr

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Dec 15, 2005
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“Proclaiming health-care guarantees will not reduce waiting times,” he said. “Training more doctors and nurses will.”

Doesn't that sound like a big step in the right direction toward correcting medical wait times? How will "proclaiming health-care guarantees" correct medical wait times? I think Layton has presented a concrete way of doing it that does not compromise our Universal Health Care.

Mr. Layton's plan would train more medical professionals could fund the equivalent of another 16,000 nursing training spots. It would cost $200-million a year.
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TenPenny

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I'm assuming that a big part of Layton's plan is to come up with lots of money to pay the doctors and nurses once they graduate, right?