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Originally Posted by belsarius
I don't know if its the case than no one wants to hear it.. I think it is more the gigantic expense it would take to fix the systemic issues, that no one wants to take it on. We have a system that instead of having synergies, are a piecemeal of add-ons Frankenstein together.
You go into a hospital, and you can walk down three halls and feel like you are in 3 different decades. We went to go get some prenatal testing done at Lois Hole, and after checking in at the first desk, we had to check in again at the next desk because "the systems don't talk to each other". Like this is seriously 2022 with the largest organization in Alberta and the systems can't even communicate?
This isn't an easy fix, this isn't a cheap fix. But the real fix needed will take a decade or more and probably a lot more borrowing than any party is willing to admit to run a platform on. The reality is you can either pay more money yearly and keep the inefficient system in place, or spend a ####-tonne of money and political capital now for fixes that many Albertans won't even see.
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Nobody has the balls.
Whether its PC, NDP or UCP its just easier to throw money at a problem and hope it leaves you alone.
Nobody wants to put the work in.
And whats more fantastic about that is that people wax poetic about our Universal Healthcare System, but if we as a society dont buckle down and address some fundamental issues, this system will fail.
And its not going to happen as a slow, agonizing death, its going to happen overnight. One day they're not going to answer the phones anymore.
But you know what? I dont care anymore. I cant. For my entire adult life I attempted to be a rational, fiscally responsible individual that cared about the systems of our society and the people that depended on them. But nobody else seems to care anymore and after COVID I've effectively decided that fiscal responsibility in my lifetime is dead.
Sorry kids, you're going to inherit a wasteland. We blamed the boomers, you're going to blame us, but there still seems like plenty of road for that can to be kicked down.