By the time the UCP American-Style Health Care bill passes, the CDC estimates 160,000 Americans will have died of coronavirus.
This bill allows for-profit clinics, hospitals. It allows govt to delist a bunch of services so you'll have to pay for them. #ableg THREAD.
This bill allows for-profit clinics, hospitals. It allows govt to delist a bunch of services so you'll have to pay for them. #ableg THREAD.
It used to be the few for-profit clinics in the system had to prove they were going to add to reducing wait times and wouldn't siphon resources from the public system. The new UCP American for-profit hospitals don't have to prove that anymore. This isn't about wait times. #ableg
This is about opening up a new market for private health insurance and for-profit hospitals. The UCP wants Albertans to look south, during a pandemic where a botched response and lack of health care has cost so many American lives, with envy. Strange political strategy. #ableg
Single payer health care is part of what makes me proud to be Canadian. Now, I know UCP has many MLAs that aren't proud of our country. Some want to separate. But ALL of them are undermining our shared Canadian values, where if you're sick you won't also be destitute. #ableg
Public health care is the reason I concluded, as a young adult, I was a New Democrat. It's the foundation of my political engagement & I will fight for it until the day I die. These are vast &sweeping changes, for which there is no precedent in Canada. We can't back down. #ableg
