Goverments And Health Care

It's been a very busy day, at least from my perspective. I've had to get paperwork ready for my new hire. We've been emailing back and forth about start dates and what her first week will look like. Emily was over to clean my oven today, after the disaster of last week. I've been on the phone with the various agencies involved in my Self-Managed Care process. I haven't even had time to get over to Safeway for flour and bleach; I'm out of both.

The one thing that bothers me is that I have to set up a payroll account with Canada Revenue Agency. What if someone figures out I am still alive, and have enough money to pay an employee. Will they come after me for the few thousand I own in back taxes? Is it worth their time? If there is one government agency which scares the hell out of me, it's Revenue Canada. They are heartless, unchanging, and even brutal at times.

Government is necessary. Taxes are necessary. Taxes and death are the only two things you cannot avoid in life. Government substantially benefits me at this point in my life, especially a liberal socialist democracy like Canada enjoys. It may not be cradle to grave care, and I certainly wouldn't call it a Nanny State, programs like national Health Care, Employment Insurance, the Canada Pension Plan and so many others make Canada a much safter place to live.

What's interesting is that those parties who rail against government spending and wasteful government programs barely touch them once in power. For all the bluff and dander, the goal of most Canadian political parties is to grab the vote of the radical center. Various parties have declared they would dismantle our national Health Care system. The best they could ever do is whittle away around the edges. Health care in Canada is sacred, even if it makes me fill in call kinds of documents. It is only through this system that I can afford to hire a live-in caregiver. How can you argue against that?