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Originally Posted by Thunderball
It isn't right, but the governments brilliant counter move of hiring freezes and cutting positions is plain wrong, and that's where the union is toothless.
Perhaps incompetent is a better way to put it.
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What do you mean. What is a governemtn supposed to do to stop the balooning costs of the health care system. Do you see alot of doctors or nurses leaving Alberta because of its abhorrent conditions. No because they have a very sweet deal up here. Heck, the gov cuts trans gender surger fro the budget and the Herlad has a front page story on it, thats how crazy the health care debate has got.
The more nurses you hire the bigger the union gets and the more powerful.
The Superboard is one step in getting rid of un needed hospitals in cities within 50km of Calgary/Red Deer/Edmonton etc and replacing them with ambulance/air ambulance service. Then those employees from those closed down locations can be moved to more efficient locations.
The next step is allowing private services to contract out for public services. Example you open a clinic that handles broken legs or whatever, you cannot accept patients off the street, only via registered alberta doctor referral - that way its not against the canada health act. You pay Nurses to work an 9-5 shift, that way you can lower the pay as you wont get stuck with the overtime game that is played out now.