Comments on: NSW regional hospitals can’t even afford postage stamps http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/23/nsw-regional-hospitals-cant-even-afford-postage-stamps/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter Whelan http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/23/nsw-regional-hospitals-cant-even-afford-postage-stamps/#comment-17765 Peter Whelan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-17765 With two Doctors in the family, we have been hearing many such stories for years now. Just as a reminder, two "gun buy backs" diverted more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS from the medical system, as gun owners were forced to see their precious family heirlooms and sports equipment crushed, then had to go to join the queue to buy new guns! Some people associated with Dept of Public Health still claim that gun bans have made us a safer society. Have the various attacks on sports shooters simply been a smokescreen, drawing public attention away from the real problems in our health system? The Canadian government disbanded their longarms registration system, after it was shown to have not had any effect on criminal use of guns; the money so wasted could have seen 100 MRI machines installed in Canadian hospitals! How much better of we would have been if $one billion had been spent on our hospitals? With two Doctors in the family, we have been hearing many such stories for years now. Just as a reminder, two “gun buy backs” diverted more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS from the medical system, as gun owners were forced to see their precious family heirlooms and sports equipment crushed, then had to go to join the queue to buy new guns! Some people associated with Dept of Public Health still claim that gun bans have made us a safer society. Have the various attacks on sports shooters simply been a smokescreen, drawing public attention away from the real problems in our health system? The Canadian government disbanded their longarms registration system, after it was shown to have not had any effect on criminal use of guns; the money so wasted could have seen 100 MRI machines installed in Canadian hospitals! How much better of we would have been if $one billion had been spent on our hospitals?

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