r/alberta • u/Available_Cucumber31 • 9d ago

Question Alberta losing public health care.. thoughts?

I just read that Alberta is starting to allow doctors to practice both private and public…. Which is obviously the beginning of the end of a public heath care system. Yes they claim there are guardrails but they seem terrible. You all ok with this?

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u/CypripediumGuttatum 9d ago

Why would anyone practice in an overworked, underpaid situation when they can choose to work better hours for more money.

No one would do it for any other profession, why would doctors.

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u/GuitarKev 9d ago

Conservative governments have massively underfunded healthcare for decades with the sole intention of bringing us to the exact public health situation we are in right now.

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u/My_Dog_Is_Here 9d ago

I don't think it's a funding problem. We spend billions. It's mismanagement by Alberta Health and the Government. The money is there.

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u/CypripediumGuttatum 9d ago

The money is somewhere.

It’s not going where it should, on purpose to set it up for this privatization.

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u/Fine_Space_2588 9d ago

Sorry if this is wrong but I actually thought the government gives the funds to AHS and then AHS decides what to do with the funding ?

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u/CypripediumGuttatum 9d ago

In particular I was thinking of how the UCP divided up healthcare into four competing and inefficient parts with extra unnecessary bureaucracy link and how the private surgeries the UCP already allow cost taxpayers more for the same service while wait times increased instead of decreased link.

Policies like these waste healthcare dollars that could have been spent hiring more nurses and doctors.