Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Smoking Mirrors to Better Health - the BC Way


The Campbell government has captured the front page with a hollow announcement about spending $22 Million on improving our collective health.


There are only two problems with this piece of puffery.


First, there is almost nothing substantive in the so-called plan. Who? What? When? Where? Only the Why is addressed and we all know that part already.


And second and most important, look at the "participants:" BC Lung, Canadian Cancer, Heart & Stroke, Dietitians, Diabetes, yadda, yadda, yadda.


No doubt all honorable institutions.


But this money will be parcelled among them and pay for the faxes and the coffees and the meeting to interface, and ... poof! Vanished....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

More puffery indeed! More enabling the "health pimps" to make payments on their cars, and boats, and hot tubs and, patio furniture, and, and, and,...............