On more horrible stuff from the UCP, their candidate for Livingstone-Macleod has made a public statement that heart attack victims should "take personal accountability for having a heart attack" and assume responsibility for their poor health. She goes on to basically state that all heart attack victims are at fault for being fat.
I always thought it was just pure greed that drove the UCP to outsource healthcare and critical services to their cronies, but viewed from that type of lens, I understand now why Conservatives would want to dismantle the health care system.
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A United Conservative Party candidate is suggesting heart attack victims should take more personal accountability.
Chelsae Petrovic, the UCP candidate for Livingstone-Macleod, who is also the current mayor of Claresholm and a nurse, said she sees people suffer from heart attacks and not take responsibility for the own health.
“This might be political suicide here, what I’m about to say,” she prefaced her comments during an interview in February with a podcast called The Canadian Story, hosted by David Parker and Zach Gerbe.
“We can look at this and I see it in health care, I’m going to say it: maybe the reason you had a heart attack was because you haven’t taken care of yourself; You’re extremely overweight, you haven’t managed your congestive heart failure, you haven’t managed your diabetes, and there’s no personal accountability,” Petrovic said.
“But they come into the hospital and it’s all of a sudden everyone else’s problem but their own.”
Mount Royal University Political Scientist Duane Bratt said while he agrees personal choices could lead to health risks, he calls Petrovic’s comments tone deaf.
“Any time a candidate on the eve of an election begins by saying this may be political suicide, that should be a hint that you should stop talking — but she continues,” Bratt said.
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