eHealth Ontario — Liberal public service abuse
May 31, 2009 · By Charles Anthony
Praise goes out to Antonella Artuso of the Sun Media Chain for keeping the public informed about the systemic waste at eHealth Ontario. The latest revelations are horrifyingly shameful. Here is what eHealth CEO Sarah Kramer had to say:
“We did get the results we were looking for — in fact, we got more than we were looking for,” she said.
No doubt they got what they wanted! It would not surprize me if their primary goals were precisely to line the pockets of consultants and friends.
This is what Health Minister David Caplan had to say:
“No rules were broken,” Caplan said of the spending reports. “There are no questionable contracts.”
See, now, this exemplifies the problem with socialism: waste, gluttony and ripping off the taxpayer are perfectly in line with the rules. For the socialist, there is always The Greater Good — however nebulous it may be — which trumps everything. Corruption is just an unfortunate costs of delivering a public service.
This eHealth nonsense is nothing more than a welfare plan for consultants and silly civil servants: the elite class of parasites who abuse the naive good nature of socialists who demand public funding for health care.
“No rules were broken.”
Caplan may be right, but he also pinpoints one of the sources of the problem — lax rules — which, to me, is a physical representation of an aged truth: It’s always easy to spend/waste someone else’s money.