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Danielle Smith is a total disaster….she wants fear and a healthy completion to enhance healthcare which is total nonsense in a public system. Switching some public hospitals over to Covenant is just an appearance of doing something…smoke and mirrors and a step to privatization. All we need to do is look at our own BV hospital to see that this will not better anything. Our hospital like the other covenant hospitals are no better off and in fact probably worst off. Out hospital needs major maintenance and repairs and we desperately need more nurses and doctors. Danielle Smith is a clear and present danger to Albertans. Fellow rural Albertans name 3 things she has done to better Albertans. And no having a surplus is not of her doing its about world oil prices. Maybe Covenant Health is offering her free tickets to their oiler luxury box….we sure know that other private healthcare providers are.
To be fair, I know of someone who received gender-affirming surgery in a hospital administered by Covenant Health, so they are not (yet, anyways) denying service based on their religious beliefs. My bigger concern is the number of times “competition” is brought into discussions of basic services like health care and education. Theoretically, competition brings out the best in you -- motivates you, drives you forward. In real life, though, it often brings out the worst: the expression “cut-throat” doesn’t come from cooperative endeavours. If this government truly thought competition was good, they’d have invited tenders for management of this “business”, publicly, rather than quietly awarding it to Shandro’s team. And, seriously, our health care system is so understaffed, overworked, and under-resourced, that the competitive model is ludicrous.
Ms. Smith needs to stop cloaking her agenda in terms that feel comfortable to old-school Conservatives (I may have been one at one time), and start working for Alberta, rather than for herself.
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Danielle Smith needs to keep her nose out of Alberta Health Care! She is incompetent!
Danielle Smith is a total disaster….she wants fear and a healthy completion to enhance healthcare which is total nonsense in a public system. Switching some public hospitals over to Covenant is just an appearance of doing something…smoke and mirrors and a step to privatization.
All we need to do is look at our own BV hospital to see that this will not better anything. Our hospital like the other covenant hospitals are no better off and in fact probably worst off. Out hospital needs major maintenance and repairs and we desperately need more nurses and doctors. Danielle Smith is a clear and present danger to Albertans. Fellow rural Albertans name 3 things she has done to better Albertans. And no having a surplus is not of her doing its about world oil prices. Maybe Covenant Health is offering her free tickets to their oiler luxury box….we sure know that other private healthcare providers are.
To be fair, I know of someone who received gender-affirming surgery in a hospital administered by Covenant Health, so they are not (yet, anyways) denying service based on their religious beliefs. My bigger concern is the number of times “competition” is brought into discussions of basic services like health care and education. Theoretically, competition brings out the best in you -- motivates you, drives you forward. In real life, though, it often brings out the worst: the expression “cut-throat” doesn’t come from cooperative endeavours. If this government truly thought competition was good, they’d have invited tenders for management of this “business”, publicly, rather than quietly awarding it to Shandro’s team. And, seriously, our health care system is so understaffed, overworked, and under-resourced, that the competitive model is ludicrous.
Ms. Smith needs to stop cloaking her agenda in terms that feel comfortable to old-school Conservatives (I may have been one at one time), and start working for Alberta, rather than for herself.