Only two things make up 40% of Ontario ER admissions. Car crashes. Alcohol incidents.
Alcohol is also involved in dozens of extremely expensive chronic diseases.
If the devil came to me and asked me to destroy the Ontario Healthcare system as much as possible in order to introduce an american-style private system, here is what I would actually do.
- Cut gas taxes. The goal is to make driving more attractive and cut funds for public transits.
- Stop all safe bike lanes to reduce physical activity.
- Attack speed cameras, making false claims about them
- Make alcohol more easily available to increase alcohol consumption.
- Cut taxes on alcohol consumption
I would ignore smart ideas to help the working class such as cutting the first bracket of the income tax or creating a tax break for those who take public transit. I would instead encourage Ontarians to drive as much as possible and consume alcohol. Fuck the fiscal sustainability of the Ontario healthcare system. We need to starve the beast and overwhelm its ressources.
That’s exactly I would do if I was an american in charge of crushing the Ontario healthcare system.
Alcohol is also involved in dozens of extremely expensive chronic diseases.
Please do tell me how to live my life more. What I want is a puritan Reddit fuck telling us not to have fun and exactly how we’re allowed to enjoy our free time.
Kindly fuck off with your conspiracy theory nonsense.
You want to actually improve this province, ban people from spending more than an hour of time online so they learn to enjoy life instead of anxiously min/maxing everyone else’s from their arm chairs.
OP is not wrong, and I think you know that, but you’ve got a sore spot about it clearly. It may be uncomfy, but it’s the truth that alcohol is absolutely horrible for one’s health.
Who cares, it’s entertainment. Provide alternate entertainment, and problem solved. Sex clubs, speakeasy, libraries, parks, how many of these are walkable to you and are a place you can spend a couple hours after work? Probably none for the majority of people, because of city planning that has been enacted so far.
How many people have a workplace within a few minutes of their home is probably even less.
I’m drinking alcohol right now and I firmly believe the research that it’s carcinogenic. If you want less terminally online populations vote for people that promote walkable infrastructure and affordable homes. Until we have those two things, I don’t have any way to entertain myself outside of doomscrolling
How about sticking to talking about the article instead of this sanctimonious shit.
I wonder if reducing the taxation even further for alcohol sold locally would help. It could cut transportation related emissions from the alcohol sector and give local brewers a better edge over mass produced brewers.
