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Doctors thinking of leaving Alberta?
The UCP's Minister Of Health will show/shame them!
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Friday, July 10, 2020
Will Alberta Soon Have A Shame-Based Healthcare System?
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JasperVille
Doctors thinking of leaving Alberta?
The UCP's Minister Of Health will show/shame them!
.
JasperVille
Doctors thinking of leaving Alberta?
The UCP's Minister Of Health will show/shame them!
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Once upon a time here in B.C. the province would release what each doctor in the province was paid. It would be printed once a year in the Vancouver Sun. Lots of people would check, but really most didn't care. It was a political tool the government used to make the case doctors were paid too much. nothing changed.
Kenney wants to try the same thing in Alberta? Lets hope he does. The doctors are going to leave any how. How many of us would stay in a job where our salaries were cut by 20%. We in B.C. will gain. Just think of how many of those doctors will head to B.C. Many won't care if they aren't working in the Lower Mainland because they're used to the cold. many already work in small towns. All I can say is, lets hope the Alberta doctors stick to it and move. Things aren't going to get better in Alberta for the medical profession or teachers. Wouldn't be surprised if police forces started recruiting in Alberta either. Vancouver pays way more than Calgary.
Kenney's attacks on public servants, which doctors are is going to come back and bite him in his fat ass. To the people of Alberta, you voted for him, so now you can learn to live with it or die because of it.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/practitioner-professional-resources/msp/physicians/payment-schedules/msc-payment-schedule
Yes, it’s true Albetarians did elect the K-Boy (as far’s I can tell, the general election was on the square, even if the conservative party elections had become subject of criminal investigation: K-Boy cheated to win the PC leadership before folding the party and creating the United version now in government). And, yes, they did anoint Their Majesty with a decisive 58% of the pop-vote, but I wouldn’t necessarily conclude all Albetarians deserve the punishments they’re experiencing now.
Of course K-Boy didn’t set the wildfires that burned down part of Fort Mack, nor engineered the collapse of world petroleum prices, nor initiated the Covid pandemic. Perhaps UCP supporters should have better parsed his responses to the first two calamities, but I rather think putting the HumptyCon back together again was foremost on their minds—to the extent they were easily convinced the NDP interregnum was a punishing anomaly—but not, I hasten to add—to the extent that the one-shot socialist wonder was returned to the paltry few seats it had before Rachel Notley upset the moribund PCs: for the first time in living memory Albetar has a respectably represented Loyal Opposition more than part way forming government again someday.
The most disturbing thing about the K-UCP is its most-base electoral base: it is blatantly bigoted—which is why K-Boy risked opprobrium by openly inviting it to revel in its hatefulness—and probably why the NDP did retain a 24-seat parliamentary presence. IMHO, the UCP is doubling down on its unprincipled principles is a desperate strategy to retain the affections of this surly faction—which indicates that it knows its real support is much thinner than that 58%. But this is the most common feature of neo-right parties in their throes after forty years of “End-of-History” party-hardy: when a party has to overweeningly attend to a hard base which itself cannot deliver even a plurality electoral win, it risks disaffecting softer support it once had. The conspicuously large NDP Opposition suggests this is precisely the fix the UCP finds itself in right now—that is, the erosion of softer conservative support had already happened before the pandemic and before bitumen prices took an even deeper, more fatal dive than they had at the beginning of the NDP’s lone term. The fact that attacking the medical professions now is bound to be broadly unpopular, to which K-Boy’s status as Canada’s most unloved premier seems well correlated, and especially during a serious pandemic which—as if Albetarians don’t notice that pandemics are all about the necessity of adequate medical services—suggests the UCP is truly in a fix.
I dare say,most Albetarians won’t deserve the fallout from the UCP’s crazy, counterintuitive policies. I bet the party won’t do near as well in three years time when its first term ends. It has one hope: that citizens inclined to vote NDP—which now probably includes a larger proportion of healthcare providers than before they were attacked by the UCP—will simply move out of the jurisdiction and effectively potentize the remaining far-rightist voting faction.
It’s hugely unfair but it just might work enough to preclude another ray of hope from shining through the pall of a dying industry which demands so much from these beset people.
OFF TOPIC, just over at Empty wheel. Marcy has moved to Ireland. The article is up. Mr. E.W. went three weeks ago. she and the dog going now.
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