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Doctors, nurses say Alberta plan to transfer hospitals alarming and concerning (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
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Danielle Larivee, a vice-president at the United Nurses of Alberta, said nurses are “very alarmed” by hospital transfers she said could negatively affect care and drive critical health-care workers from the province.

Like Parks, Larivee said the worry is the restructuring will lead to more bureaucracy and less co-ordination across the system.

“We're not seeing any evidence at all to support the idea that this is about improving access to care, about improving services or even about saving money,” said Larivee in an interview.

"If we're not saving money and not making care better, why are we doing it?"

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[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

I see a few reasons for this bullshit.

  • The conservative masturbatory fantasy of privatizing all government services, leaving the risk and cost to the government and collecting the profits for themselves and their friends
  • The desire to punish people for being sick and "poor" (Really, just not extremely wealthy.) Being sick and being poor are both symptoms of being a Bad Person who made Bad Choices in their fascist eyes.
  • Most urgently right now, this is a huge step towards banning abortion, gender care, birth control, and fertility treatments. In other words, subjugating women.

That's why I call Marlaina "Taliban Dan." It's not just the same playbook as the conservative US states, it's straight out of Iran.