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Originally Posted by wooohooo
What about the amount we are paying Physicians?
It seems utterly ridiculous how much we spend paying them. They are a very important part of society and with the amount of Education for sure they should be well compensated. But to the amount they make, seems almost... unfair. In fact they just got a raise a month ago.
If there's anything that'll put us more in debt it's healthcare spending especially to Doctors. I have a lot (over 8) physicians in my family and they all agree that the system is broken, but they'll milk the system while it is.
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I think that is the first thing people go after is salaries. For the employer it probably is the easiest way to cut costs, just roll back wages and tell your employees tough luck. However, I think salaries are a quick and totally incomplete fix. I really want to see how much a 5% roll back is going to save in the grand scheme of things.
I am fairly sure if audited there are many other areas that cuts could be made that would result in larger savings. Issue is that would involve complex negotiations with supply vendors, deep analysis of process to identify waste or duplication, and more transparency on how and where money gets spent.
Yes the majority of Albertans (myself excluded) voted PC for 40 years so they do deserve a share of blame. However, again blaming Albertans feels like a cheap cop out, just like rolling back public service wages. They got power by promising to manage our money well, which evidently they did not. They deserve the blame for that. They enacted the policies that got us here. Yet at the same time the majority voted them in, and cheered when Ralph Bucks came out, and Paid in Full happened.
What I am saying is this is more complicated than one group at fault. So Prentice is doing what all good politicians do, boil it down to something simple and understandable for the masses. We are in debt, we got to look in the mirror, we got to belt tighten, you know what a salary is, so let's cut that.
Yet the whole time the waste continues, buried deep in the gov't. You won't see or hear it, but you'll feel better some teachers, nurses, or doctors get a pay cut. That is something the majority will understand.
It is totally dishonest, but smart politics.