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Originally Posted by shotinthebacklund
What gives you hope the NDP will be able to provide the experience you expect? did they make the system better when in power and give us a strong foundation leading up to the pandemic? no. Did they have the Health system performing at optimum while in power? no. I am far from giving the UCP a pass for the condition the healthcare system is in, there needs to be a large amount of change. Both sides have campaign platforms running on strengthening Health care, I just done expect either to be able to deliver. The system is broken, and needs to be torn down and rebuild (like the flames). Retool is all we can expect.
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The previous PC's spent 15 years talking about replacing the cancer centre, and the best they could do was to carve out apiece of the south health campus, and figure that was good enough. The NDP got it done.
The NDP had a lab that would have brought jobs in research and made Alberta a centre for research and cutting edge lab techniques. The UCP tore up the contract, paid penalties, and bulldozed the site. The UCP gave a contract to a private who has proven incapable of delivering services in a reasonable time, and has now tied us to them until Alberta can somehow find a way out, which won't be easy with a shrunken public lab system and huge barriers to entry for competition.
Why would a HCW want to even come to Alberta given how the UCP find them contemptible? The mere fact that the UCP are in government is enough to make the challenge recruiting that much harder, on top of making up for the losses that will occur after the election.
I gave you some specific points why the UCP will be bad, but you didn't address those.
But in general, you can see Notley cares about healthcare, where for Smith it's a check box for the election, and a route to privatization after.