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Originally Posted by Canadianman
I mean, kudos for admitting that you have no idea and your previous statement was ignorant (while lacking the self-awareness to notice that you did exactly what you suggested others are doing). Next time, it might be wiser to simply not make the statement in the first place, but you do you.
How can you expect a nurse to know how to fix it? They are 1/120,000th of the system. An important part to be sure, but just a small cog in an immense and complex system.
AHS is a huge bureaucracy. It has enormous inefficiencies in some areas and colossal efficiencies in others. It can take months (years?) for changes to percolate through the system. It isn't broken or foolproof. It can absolutely be improved and efforts should continually be made to do so.
But the Conservatives in Alberta aren't interested in improving it at all. If they were, they had approximately 60 years of leadership to do something about it. They are hand-wringing about the plight of health care, but it is EXACTLY where they put it.
Firing a board that they appointed, replacing them with the same old white guy that they appointed as OA last time isn't designed to fix anything. It's being done to give the illusion of progress.
If they want to fix health care, where are the funds to hire more staff? Where is the respectful discourse with unions and employees to ensure a happy and productive workforce? Instead they insult doctors, disparage nurses and renege on contracts.
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You're just approving my points. It isnt as simple as just 'give them more money.'
Thats an element of it, resources are important, but its also important that those resources arent just being tossed into a bottomless pit.
It isnt somethin where you can just toss cash at it and assume that it'll be fixed. Listen to the people who operate and live within that system and what they think the solutions are as opposed to appointing completely unknowledgeable outside observers who think they know the answers.
Simply throwing money at a problem does not equate to fixing it.
All I've said is that I think that the people who live and operate within that system on a daily basis might have some insight into how to make it more efficient as opposed to external entities who want to parachute in and make changes as they see fit.
This is the difficulty of the Health system, these people arent mercenaries who just go where the money is, they feel Health Care is a calling, a lifestyle, and they do a very difficult job under brutal circumstances.
Lets listen to what they have to say and help them.
Yes, its going to cost money. And I'm 100% okay with that, if the outcome is delivering better services and a better quality of life for the people who work within AHS.
Is funding the real problem? Because I havent met too many people that oppose health care spending. Its what its spent on that generates controversy.
I'd wager that you could double AHS' funding and nobody would even notice. Thats a problem.