🧵When challenged on paying out of pocket for healthcare, Danielle Smith often brings up the Canada Health Act as a defense.

But Smith is not a fan of the Canada Health Act and has been seeking ways around it.

#ableg #abpoli #abhealth
1/🧵 Danielle Smith contemplates if the Canada Health Act needs to be thrown out due to its principles, such as universality which she argues should not cover all hospital and physician services.
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Danielle Smith & Rob Anderson contemplate making agreements with Ron DeSantis and other "free states".
(Rob is now executive director of the premier's office)

From May 15, 2022 (after she re-entered politics on March 31).
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#ableg #abpoli

https://twitter.com/LukaszukAB/status/1651801182061629441

Danielle Smith gets her legislative ideas from Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem? Pardon me?

"Ron DeSantis has put forward multiple different pieces of legislation that we would also parallel..."
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🧵Preston Manning has already written a report of a fictional investigation into the government handling of the COVID pandemic with a future date of June 5, 2023. /1
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli The report reads like Freedom Convoy fan-fiction. I'll be picking out the sections that stood out to me, but there's just so much absurdity in it that I can't tweet them all. /2

🧵Once Albertans get accustomed to Health Spending Accounts, Premier Danielle Smith wants to eliminate coverage for general practitioners, forcing you to pay for each visit to your family doctor or walk-in clinic. /1
#ableg For Danielle Smith, the introduction of Health Spending Accounts is the first step towards her vision of a US-style Health Care Insurance system with deductibles and co-payments for Albertans. /2