Keep voting against your own interests, and keep reaping the rewards, Alberta!
i have been waiting 3 years for hip surgery, still no idea when it’ll happen. i’ve lost everything since im unable to work, let alone walk to the store. I can no longer afford to eat daily, every other day is still a bit much…gotta make that food last! my food budget was $8 this month. Food bank here in town helps, sure, but who wants to eat old, outdated, stale food, for years on end. Alberta government is more willing to let me die on MAID program than to fix me so i can go back to work and pay tax’ again.
The healthcare system here is FUCKED
And they want to privatize it such that you need to PAY for the privilege of having said healthcare. They’ve taken a hard look at the American for-profit model, and have realized just how profitable holding people’s health and life in ransom for their money can be.
With or without any wealth, you will still get processed by the current system. And with the way we triage, a billionaire with the same medical issue could be right after you, and you would still get processed before them regardless of how poor you are.
In a for-profit system, you’ll only get processed if you can pay. Can’t pay? Go die in the gutter outside like the freeloading scum you are. Your ability to be treated and the speed at wich you will be processed rests entirely on how much money you can throw at them. With a large enough donation, you could even get a stubbed toe moved to the head of the triage line, ahead of people on the threshold of death who will die without immediate attention.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Alberta’s health care system is being crushed by demand for its services, according to physicians across the province, with children waiting for cancer treatment, hospital wards overflowing and prenatal appointments delayed.
Alika Lafontaine, a physician in Grande Prairie who until earlier this year was president of the Canadian Medical Association, said Alberta’s situation mirrors that in other health care systems across the country.
Asked whether hospitals are in worse shape than they were at the height of COVID-19, Dr. Lafontaine said the system is less resilient after going through repeated cycles of stress without fixes for underlying problems.
The government recently announced that nurse practitioners will be able to set up their own publicly funded clinics – a decision that drew outrage from some physicians, who said it devalued their work.
Patients had to be double bunked, which caused what he described as “pure gridlock.” Health care facilities in the Edmonton area have been operating under a disaster plan for about six weeks.
Kerry Williamson, an Alberta Health Services spokesperson, confirmed that a small number of children with cancer in Edmonton had to wait to start chemotherapy, but are now receiving treatment.
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