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Shandy and Kenney are Bro-ling out of their lane and it's looking like no Alberta community will be spared their destruction. Thread.
Dr. Mark Armstrong put this letter to his patients in the mail last week to say goodbye before he was ready to say it and long before patients were ready to hear it.
If they can't find primary care like Dr. Armstrong was providing, they'll spend more time in hospitals.
If they can't find primary care like Dr. Armstrong was providing, they'll spend more time in hospitals.
Dr. Catherine Zapf is closing her family practice in Canmore because its not possible to cover costs under Shandy's unilateral fee rules. https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/canmore-doctor-closing-practice-after-provincial-changes-to-doctor-funding-1.4829162
180 babies were born in Lac La Biche's hospital last year, but 10 doctors are resigning their hospital duties because government cut medical liability insurance support and made hospital duties a financial drain for doctors. Lac La Biche'll Lack La E.R. https://globalnews.ca/news/6831003/alberta-doctors-resigning-hospital-lac-la-biche/
If you're in Sundre, learn to hwy drive through chest pain or uterine contractions till Shandy and his press stupitary Steve Buick receive the "physician replacements" they say are on their way [maybe with the next shipment of knock off surgical masks]. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/doctors-sundre-quit-hospital-baby-deliveries-alberta-protest-fees-1.5520625
Seven doctors in Rocky Mountain House have to quit their emergency room and acute care duties so they can keep running their clinic. Dominoes will fall there too. https://twitter.com/jo_mundell/status/1252334377884778496
Seven family docs in Stettler in a 1 in 10 emergency room on call rotation turned in their resignations. CTV couldn't get AHS communications staff to call back with a comment. Jerks. Doctors ALWAYS return calls for our jobs. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/red-deer/central-alberta-physicians-resign-from-er-ahead-of-government-cancellation-of-master-agreement-1.4851800
Rimbey has to get ready to lose doctors who planned to be fixtures in the town for decades. Changes to medical liability coverage make it impossible for them to give care across the spectrum. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-doctors-fees-rural-hospitals-clinics-1.5524027
It looks like every doctor in the Pincher Creek clinic will stop working at the hospital there too in order to keep their clinic open. https://www.shootinthebreeze.ca/index.php/item/associate-clinic-doctors-make-tough-call
You can add communities we've missed to this thread, and there's more to come. No doubt about that. In August when people who've held off on getting primary care during the pandemic need medical care in a hurry, it won't be there. https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/doctors-in-at-least-44-rural-alberta-communities-to-reduce-services-survey
Same for kids. This Edmonton peds clinic has to shrink their team to stay open and that will slow down care. https://twitter.com/CityNewsYEG/status/1251311352909492225
With so many slow witted UCP issues managers and press secretaries speaking for the government you might think this disaster is because of incompetence....fools trying to balance their corporate tax breaks with health care cuts.
But this destruction is on purpose.
But this destruction is on purpose.
This basket of grifter bros is setting the table to corporatize health care.
Who tf ever heard of a Premier's email auto-reply directing people to a PRIVATE HEALTH APP? Well Jason does that shit. He wants Albertans using Telus Babylon.
Who tf ever heard of a Premier's email auto-reply directing people to a PRIVATE HEALTH APP? Well Jason does that shit. He wants Albertans using Telus Babylon.
There's a stack of badly aging tweets from UCP bros about how Telus met all privacy requirements but usually when you follow the rules you don't get investigated by the Privacy Commissioner. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-privacy-commissioner-investigating-babylon-by-telus-health-1.5539900
Unfortunately, commissioners aren't exactly the same here as in other places. [See Ethics Commish and the Shandro family free pass to sell private health insurance while also taking away publicly insured services.] This gov't also makes laws to say they can ignore other laws.
Either the Privacy Commish will
--"find" no breach of health information requirements [cuz she likes her job]
--find a breach and face the consequences
--or [this should scare tf out of you] she'll find a violation of health information law and the UCP bros will change the law.
--"find" no breach of health information requirements [cuz she likes her job]
--find a breach and face the consequences
--or [this should scare tf out of you] she'll find a violation of health information law and the UCP bros will change the law.
That's how the petroligarchy/broligarchy/assholigarchy runs.
They're purposely gutting health care where it'll hurt most so in 3 years when they've "fixed" it with shitty solutions they profit personally from, Albertans will thank them.
DON'T.
DON'T EVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID.
They're purposely gutting health care where it'll hurt most so in 3 years when they've "fixed" it with shitty solutions they profit personally from, Albertans will thank them.
DON'T.
DON'T EVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID.
