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Originally Posted by Slava
I just have to ask how in the world Smith will repair healthcare and education and at the same cut taxes and reduce the very system delivering those services at the same time?
Looks good on paper (as does Smith for the record), but I have yet to see anything other than rhetoric. Just because you say that is the goal and over-arching theme doesn't mean that your plan will actually work here. Before you bother with the obvious "she/we will cut away the fat and streamline the system" that is just rhetoric. As a voter and user of these systems I want to know where the cuts will be and what kind of impact these will have on the delivery of what I believe to be fundamental systems in our society.
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Well for one, and I don't even know why I'm posting this for you since you don't give a crap about the WRA anyway.
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Instead of paying hospitals a set annual budget, we should be paying them according to what they do for patients. In other developed social democracies this has been shown to radically reduce administration cost, and maximize use of medical staff and facilities, reducing waiting times, improving service and saving money. One of Danielle’s first acts as party leader will be to appoint a qualified task force to identify successful models from elsewhere that will work in Alberta. The PCs have allowed Alberta health care to fall unacceptably far behind the rest of the world.
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Major improvements can be made without getting into protracted and useless arguments with Ottawa over the five principles of the Canada Health Act, universality, accessibility, portability, comprehensiveness, and public administration. The major changes we need are straightforward and have been proven to work in European nations like Sweden or France. Alberta has overlooked a wealth of successful improvements in other countries.
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Just from her website.
She also wrote papers on these topics if you actually bother to go look.