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    Wie Alberta plant, das öffentliche Gesundheitswesen in ganz Kanada zu zerstören


    Wie Alberta plant, das öffentliche Gesundheitswesen in ganz Kanada zu zerstören

    https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/03/Albertas-Plan-To-Kill-Health-Care/

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    1. zachem62 on

      Alberta’s Bill 11 is designed to quietly bring in two-tier health care by letting doctors charge private patients for faster service and by expanding private insurance. This will pull doctors and resources out of the public system, make wait times worse for most people and give richer patients better access.

      Once private insurers and US corporations move in, the system will be hard to reverse because of trade rules and political pressure. Over time, public care gets weaker, more services cost extra and universal medicare erodes.

      This isn’t accidental reform. It’s an ideological move to privatize health care using Alberta as a test case. If Ottawa doesn’t stop it, other provinces will copy it and Canada’s single-payer universal system will slowly collapse.

    2. _DotBot_ on

      This is complete nonsense.

      Canada already has two tiered healthcare. If you’re very wealthy, you can afford to fly abroad to get whatever you need taken care of.

      Meanwhile, everyone else is stuck waiting in endless lines.

      A public private mix for healthcare is inevitable in Canada. It’s the only way to funnel more money into domestic healthcare and to reduce burdens on the universal system.

      We need to keep these Canadian dollars in Canada. A domestic public private healthcare industry is the only way to reward doctors with fair wages and to reduce burdens on the overall system.

    3. PDXFlameDragon on

      Private insurance companies have a toxic relationship with healthcare. Their short term profit incentives are to deny you proper care and hope you are some other insurance companies problems when your health fails.

      A single payer system has to take care of you when they give you improper preventative care and lives with the consequences.

    4. UnflushableStinky2 on

      Canadas Public Health Service is not perfect but the spirit and intention behind it is something that makes me very proud to be Canadian and is a righteous and noble endeavour. 

      These vampires can get bent. Conservatives have been chipping away at it for generations now. Fuck off.

    5. CamusAtTheZoo on

      This is going to be a SERIOUSLY uneducated question but I hope someone can answer nonetheless:

      In Ontario I know you can pay to go to a private clinic. There’s also several online services in which you can pay to see a doctor that same day

      Is what Alberta plans to do any different from that ?

    6. Godzilla52 on

      It’s also ironic that Alberta had one of the best primary care (private-family doctor/clinic) networks in the country prior to the UCP coming to power that they have undermined to the point of a mass exodus of family doctors out of the province.

      For all their talk about helping family/private doctors/clinics, they don’t seem to do a good job when it comes to listening to them. There’s also ways the government could integrate existing private and public care services without undercutting the public sector like they’re currently doing (such as the successive of the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative Project, or the integrated service model in most EU country’s health sectors), but that would require the UCP to both be competent & act in good faith, neither of which they seem to be capable of.

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