Faced with being overwhelmed, AB healthcare system asked to find cuts
Faced with being overwhelmed, AB healthcare system asked to find cuts
Forget about blaming health care workers for sick time and overtime. The UCP government, which has concentrated all control of public health care in the premier’s and health minister’s offices, own this.
Step 1: cut healthcare funding
Step 2: watch healthcare system flounder
Step 3: criticize the system for being incapable of meeting healthcare needs
Step 4: cut funding more
Step 5: watch system implode
Step 6: privatize even though no one wants this
Step 7: record shareholder profits!
That’s exactly what’s going on in all conservative run provinces aka. most of the country. It’s going to be insane when all the boomers, who spent their whole lives voting blue, are definitely going to need a quality healthcare system but won’t be able to afford it.
To be honest, I don’t think the Liberals would have improved the system but I doubt they would’ve purposefully caused it to implode.
But they definitely can’t vote orange because brown man === bad and like 30 years ago they gave teachers an extra 6 days off to prevent the education system from collapsing. Oh the humanity!
My parents voted blue their entire lives, including from the nursing homes they got to spend their final years in, where they complained about how bad healthcare and seniors care were and why weren't they funded better and why were there so many immigrants doing the work instead of real Canadians - and then dutifully voting as blue as possible because what else are they going to do?
Historians are not going to be looking back at them very nicely.
Hey UCP Voters: FUCK YOU ALL!
Just a reminder, this was less than a year ago:
Premier Danielle Smith said a UCP government will remain committed to ensuring that Albertans have access to world-class healthcare, where and when they need it, through a publicly-funded system.
Smith said in a statement, “Under a re-elected UCP government, no Albertan will ever have to pay for a doctor out of pocket.”
“I want to be clear: under the UCP’s Public Health Care Guarantee, we are committing to all Albertans that under no circumstances will any Albertan ever have to pay out-of-pocket to see their family doctor or to get the medical treatment they need,” said Smith. “And it means that a UCP government, under my leadership, will not de-list any medical services or prescriptions now covered by Alberta Health Insurance. No exceptions. You will only ever need your Alberta health card.”
So, and no surprise to anyone with more than two brain cells, THAT was a lie.
Seriously, if you voted UCP, I hope you eat shit and die. Fuck you.
Does Alberta have a provincial sales tax yet?
It's hidden in the prices of goods so people don't notice it's there. It was 5% when I was there a number of years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax_in_Alberta
Sales tax in Alberta consists only of a federal consumption tax, the general goods and services tax (GST). Alberta is the only province in Canada with no provincial sales tax (PST).
Where the fuck does this come from a hidden tax. We don't have a hidden tax at all, we have federal GST. If Alberta had a hidden 5% tax can anyone tell me why stuff costs the same in Saskatchewan and BC then they add a tax?
The ucp voters are such dullards their politicians herd them like sheep.