Thread by @RachelNotley

We’re sharing documents that have come into our possession. I'll be completely candid - they showed up in the mail. I don’t know who sent them.

There are 35 pages of photos of a presentation to cabinet detailing the UCP’s scheme to rip apart Albertans’ public health care.

This is a plan to massively concentrate control of healthcare in Danielle Smith’s office.
It’s a blueprint for chaos in our clinics and hospitals.

Those UCP members who cheered for more rural or local decision-making in healthcare at their AGM this weekend are about to find out they’ve been brutally double-crossed. None of that is in here.

Let me list the new agencies this plan creates:
-Primary Care Organization
-Acute Care Organization
-Continuing Care Organization
-Mental Health and Addictions Organization
-Integration Council

-Centre of Recovery Excellence
-System Transformation Office
and my personal favourite:
-“The Procurement and System Optimization Secretariat”

Here’s what we know is not in the plan:

-No new doctors
-No new nurses
-No new paramedics
-No new nurse practitioners
-No new LPNs

On primary care there’s not a word about how to hire more doctors or keep the ones we have. In fact, the government complains in this presentation that there are too many doctors!

I’ve seen quite a few of these kinds of decks.
And I always make sure to flip to the back and look for the slide called “Risks.”
The top risks identified here are “Potential to Fragment Care delivery” and “Risk of Service Disruption/Failure.”

Those are some massive risks.
Fragmented care and service disruptions put patients' lives in danger.

This is a scheme to sell off and privatize public health care, piece by piece. That path is clearly described. The only person who benefits from this is Danielle Smith, who is giving herself powers to reach into any part of our health care and override medical professionals.

I believe that healthcare does need reform, through direct investment in frontline care and a massive recruitment and retention campaign. That’s not what the UCP wants to do.

Bottom line - this is an attempt to concentrate control of healthcare in the Premier’s Office.

But what it will do is cause catastrophic chaos in our clinics, our hospitals, and for all Albertans.