Re: “MSP premiums should be axed,” Feb. 1.
If Medical Services Plan premiums should be rolled into the income-tax system, we need to do the same with the impending sewage-treatment plant fees as well. While paying another $300 to $500 a year is merely chump-change to our regional rich, it will hit low-income families much harder. However, the poor can’t stop using their toilets.
This at least one of the reasons for demanding a health-impact assessment for the sewage plant, and in making that demand, Dr. Richard Stanwick, chief medical health officer for the Vancouver Island Health Authority, has shown he understands that our low-income residents may be forced to shoulder an unfair amount of the financial burden for a sewage plant and that this may indeed negatively impact on their health.
John Newcomb
Victoria
