As the
New Brunswick Medical Society takes the province to court, Health
Minister Ted Flemming is publishing an open letter to doctors telling
them his door remains open to ideas that will achieve 20 million dollars
in health care savings.
Flemming
is telling the doctors each child born in the province is immediately
saddled with a debt of more than 15 thousand dollars before he or she
draws a breath.
He
claims the financial situation is so dire, the health department had to
present its spending plans to the bankers who will underwrite the
province's debt and answer questions about how money will be saved.
He's now
saying those savings can be achieved without a medicare cap but there's
no way workers in healthcare won't be affected since three-quarters of
the health department's budget is made up of wages.