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7 Jul, 8 tweets, 1 min read
It's been a while since I've looked at the lobbying records to see who is knocking on Shandro's door. Apart from the usual visits from big pharma, Shopper's Drug Mart and Loblaws, here's who else has been paying him a visit.... /1
Telus has been lobbying re: "enhanced access to virtual healthcare" and "determin[ing] possible new and/or next iteration of existing AB Gov/TELUS programming...to ensure TELUS maximizes its reach to support...mobile healthcare access" /2
Alberta Surgical Group Ltd. lobbying re: "To achieve contracted arrangements with Alberta
Health and Alberta Health Services" /3
Medtronic lobbying re: "adopt[ing]...value-based procurement models and value-based service
delivery models", and changing "existing
approaches to procurement and service delivery
models" /4
Insight Medical Imaging re: "the development of new
health delivery service models that would promote
sustainable and accountable health outcomes for the
province" including "private health services provided in a single payer model" /5
Care Gateway seeking meeting with Luan re: "the direction that Government is taking with respect to a treatment focus and future strategy for addressing addictions" with a view to supporting that direction /6
Dynalife lobbying re: "proposed options
and alternatives for Laboratory Service Delivery as it
relates to structure, governance, performance, and
ownership" /7
Strongest Families Institute lobbying re: "Working with the Government of Alberta to enhance support for virtual mental health services in Alberta" /8

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26 Nov 20
Secret public health meeting recordings. Kenney & Shandro micromanaged civil servants, overruled expert advice, & pushed an early relaunch that focused on the economy & avoiding the appearance of curtailing freedoms over safeguarding public health: cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
Kenney wanted "evidence-based thresholds for mandatory restrictions that [were] effectively impossible to meet."

"[W]e put our best public health advice forward" and Kenney is "more concerned about the economy."

The gov used Hinshaw "as a shield to deflect criticism."
Although AHS "is responsible for enforcing public health orders" and "is supposed to operate at arm's length from gov", Shandro exerted control over enforcement. He didn't want them to enforce anything, just to educate. 29,000 complaints and only 62 enforcement orders.
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26 Nov 20
The first public health order is out (a full day after coming into effect...it is problematic to be bound by legal obligations that you don't yet have access to). This one doesn't address businesses, even though they will be bound by restrictions starting on the 27th. /1
So they have little time to understand their legal obligations and prepare. Notably, many people seemed to think that the business restrictions apply across the province. They don't. They apply in purple areas. /2
A person in a private residence can't permit a person who doesn't normally reside there to enter, with a bunch of reasonable exceptions (health care, co-parenting, housekeeping, child care, repairs, etc). /3
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23 Nov 20
I'm seeing disturbing accounts of Shandro's appearance at a UCP meeting in Peace River yesterday. These accounts suggest that the province's strategy has very little to do with public health evidence and a reliance on discredited experts.
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13 Nov 20
To summarize the privacy commissioner's thoughts re: bill 46. Netcare will now be managed and operated by the gov. This is not necessarily a concern but a "significant departure" with uncertain benefits. She wonders what consultation w/ health service providers occurred. 1/6
Rules around duties/responsibilities of gov will be elaborated on in regulations. She strongly advises consultation with her on this (which didn't happen pre-bill 46). This bill creates a situation where the gov has "the ability to significantly broaden access to Netcare" 2/6
This includes access out of AB or even CAN. Beyond drs in Lloydminster, she's unsure of the gov's intent but says this will make it difficult for her to "effectively investigate or hold accountable" those out of province and may limit the recourse available to Albertans 3/6
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6 Nov 20
Some thoughts on Bill 46... This main changes are to the Hospitals Act, Health Information Act, and Health Professions Act. The Hospitals Act will be repealed and public hospitals will now be regulated in the Health Facilities Act (HFA) along with private surgical facilities.
Part 2 of the HFA addresses private facilities (both those who provide insured and those who provide uninsured services). This remains unchanged since the passage of bill 30.
There's a new Part 2.1 of the HFA. Basically, the gov plunked all of the old Hospitals Act (e.g. hospital bylaws, privileges, hospital foundations, etc) into the HFA.
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17 Oct 20
We won't know the results of the vote until tomorrow, but the UCP is finished debating the policy to allow a two-tier health care system. Some thoughts... 1/8
We heard the usual rhetoric about "choice" and "freedom", which is all fine and good if you can afford those choices and those freedoms. Given the link between health and wealth, those who cannot afford those choices would often be those who most need health care services. 2/8
Brian Peterson says that other countries have both systems and perform well. Classic correlation/causation problem. Systems that outperform Canada do not outperform because of privatization. Evidence doesn't support that argument. Also, most of those countries spend more. 3/8
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