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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
The problem with many of those on the left is that they strongly believe there is a direct linear relationship between spending and service outcomes. However, it's been conclusively proven that is not the case over and over again. Alberta is, and has been for decades, the highest spending province in Canada. Yet, our service outcomes are generally average or worse than that in many comparisons.
Cutting spending doesn't mean cutting services, and increasing spending doesn't mean improving services. If you send two people into the grocery store with $100 and one comes out with a weeks worth of supplies and the other comes back with prime rib and some chips for one night, the solution to equal their outcomes isn't to give the second guy more money....
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I'm always amazed by people who are upset that our health care spending is higher than everywhere else.
Albertans earn, on average, more than any other province. Do you expect a nurse here to work for the same as what a nurse makes in Nfld? The above average salaries from Alberta's resource wealth raise all salaries.
Want to stop paying higher health care wages than everywhere else? Ask to have your salary standardized with the rest of Canada. Fiscal responsibility starts with you!