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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Really? The NDP have already said they will invest in long term care spaces, which is one of the major issues with high costs hitting hospitals. The Conservatives made short sighted cuts to peripheral services that have ended up increasing health care costs. That and the Superboard, along with consolidation if EMS dispatch has increased costs and decreased quality of services.
I am hopeful the NDP are going to look smartly at how peripheral healthcare spending can decrease overall costs by removing pressure on our hospitals. The Conservatives thought cutting spending was going to save money, and it has had the opposite effect by funneling every sick person into an expensive hospital bed when they don't need to be there. That's what I meant by "Conservative mismanagement".
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The Prentice PCs were already investing in long term care spaces - though too slowly for everyone on both the Wildrose and NDP side of the spectrum. As to the rest, you can be "hopeful", but unless I missed it, Notley hasn't proposed many changes to the overall operation of AHS - though it should be noted that Prentice had already announced an intention to decentralize it again, so everything was changing back anyway.
For me, I look at what the NDP is doing as a case of "throw money at it and hope it gets better", and that is largely what the PCs did. There doesn't seem to be any desire to look at how AHS is structured. Why does it need 64 positions at the VP level or close equivalent? Why do we actually have a job called "Senior Provincial Director of Decision Making"? And how bloody bloated is middle management if AHS is that top heavy?