The Editor,
Re. “Health care talk turns to private facilities
Private health care? No thank you.
I was dismayed to hear about Linda Reimer’s support for further privatizing our health care system at the recent all-candidates debate for the riding of Port Moody-Coquitlam.
I believe in a community that takes care of each other, not one where wealthy people can pay to skip the line. We desperately need to improve our public health care system, including reducing wait times for non-emergency surgeries, improving home and community care for seniors, and expanding primary care so that people have access to a family doctor as well as other health care professionals in the community.
The good news is that there are excellent public solutions that have been shown to work in B.C. that would benefit everyone (e.g., centralized wait lists, expanded home support to keep people out of hospital).
Ms. Reimer has clearly not been fighting to improve health care for the people in her riding. As a constituent with a family that relies on our public system, I expect a lot more from my elected representative and will be voting for change on May 9.
Edith MacHattie, Port Moody
