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Dear Editor,
Reason stares at the rash decision taken
by Honorable Minister of Health, Murray
Elston, to deregulate naturopathy!
Denuding this profession, which has
rendered invaluable service in the areas of
preventative and chronic health care over
the last 61 years in this province, of their
self-governing body can only endanger the
public (loss of standards' enforcement) and
the naturo-pathic physicians themselves, by
loss of licence to practice here.
Naturopathy, a holistic way of looking at'
the person, ,is every bit concerned about the
spirit and about the emotions of a client, as
it is about the physical condition.
• Following healing principles of nature,
naturopathic doctors are diametrically op-
posite to orthodox medicine (the medical
profession). While medical doctors are ac-
credited for instant relief through the
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elimination of the symptoms, naturopaths
take these symptoms as communication
from the body, alluding to a deeper cause.
Accrediting the body with its own poten-
tial healing force, naturopathic doctors,
facilitate the healing process through detox-
ification and strengthening the body so that
it can get on with healing.
Now, medical doctors have their place in
crisis intervention, but why don't they leave
up to the naturopathic doctors the chronic
cases, where surgery and drugs can only go
so far? And why cannot the government
understand this and be "fair" about this?
The Honorable Murray Elston stated at
the outset of his office that he would like the
government to take a more preventative,
healthful approach to medicine. Now then,
why is he dismantling the representative
body of its main proponents - the
naturopaths?
Thank you for printing my letter,
Peter Rooyakkers (532-4375)
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Reader agrees with sensible
solution to extra -billing controversy.
Dear Editor:
Last week,. a letter outlining a "sensible
Ontario Solution" for the OHIP woes, ap-
peared in the Goderich Signal Star. This let-
ter and the many others that we have been
reading in the papers over the
pastfewmon-
ths
vn`
the
have helped many people to form an opi-
nion about the OHIP controversy. I for one,
would like to thank each and every person
who has taken their time to put pen to paper
and share their thoughts with the general
public on this issue.
I have come to the conclusion that the
message from the Rourks simply stated, of-
fers the answer to solving the problems in
the system. As a person involved in indepen-
dent business, I believe that the real cost of
goods and services must be decided by those
providing the goods or services. The law of
'supply and demand added to healthy com-
petition will determine what people will pay.
As for the important issue of Health Care
Services - it is our responsibility to make the
best possible care available to all people.
Paying our OHIP premiums, whether we
use the services or not; sharing hospital,
home care and V.O.N. nursing expenses,
etc. through taxes and tax-deductible dona-
tions, makes it possible for us to meet this
responsibility.
Our OHIP scheme works very well to
relieve the great burden of collecting ac-
counts receivables, from many doctors, so
that they might give their best energies to
the care of the patient. But I also feel that
the user should know the real cost of such
services. If people knew the costs involved
for such things as community, social and
health care services it may just have a
positive affect on eliminating the abuses of
same, and we would get a lot more ac-
complished with our dollars in the long run.
I am sure that the only proper answer to
the problem at hand concerning OHIP, is to
adopt the "sensible Ontario solution" as
stated by James and Leslie Rourke. And
that was to ban extra billing for emergency
visits and procedures and for those patients
on the OHIP premium assistance plan
(senior citizens and those that have passed
the government's own means test). As
stated in their letter, this would eliminate
the situation where the real possibility ex-
isted for occasional serious billing problems
within the present system. Bill C94 is
destructive and will lead to total state-
controlled medicine. This would be a
mistake.
• Write a letter to Health Minister Murray
Elston, to Premier David Peterson and
perhaps even Hon. John Sweeney and tell
them how you feel. As suggested in one of
the other letters to the editor last month,.
just photo copy or tear the page from the
paper if an article or letter, is one that you
agree with and pin a note to it stating your
agreement. It is very easy and no postage is
required. Mr. Elston's address is: Mr. Mur-
ray J. Elston, Minister of Health, Huron -
Brock, Hepburn Block, Queen's Park,
Toronto, Ontario M7A 2C4 and Premier
David Peterson, Premier of Ontario,
Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M7A 2C4
and Hon. John Sweeney, Minister of Com-
munity and Social Services, 6th Floor, Hep-
burn Block, 80 Gosvenor Street, Toronto,
Ontario M7A 1E9. Your opinion counts.
Sincerely
Heather Lyons
GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1986—PAGE 5
An irnpartial tribunal monitored by
public would prevent extra -billing abuse
the bath water, because the baby's wet. You
wipe the baby off.
An impartial tribunal monitored by the,
public should insure they, the physicians,
would receive a fair and just fee for their
services. This would eliminate the tendency
for abuse.
They, the medical profession, have made
considerable concessions CO the elderly and
those on fixed incomes.
This is very commendable action on their
part. If the government would comply in a
like manner in properly funding the
hospitals, so that the public wouldn't have to
Dear Editor,
Personally, I admire the organization of
the medical profession. If the farmers had a
similar organization, they wouldn't ex-
perience the difficulties they do now.
'It would seem that the present Ontario
government has a' hot line to Gorbachev.
They, the government, has to be reininded
that they live in a democratic society.
There are other ways to monitor extra
billing other than cancelling it, and it would
create employment. When one bathes a
baby, one doesn't throw the baby out with
Stanley Township names needed
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Sincerely,
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