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“My approach here first is we need to get the policy right before we worry about building the technology. And we’ve got a lot of work to do with the minister of finance, minister of health, and probably a few other ministers to make sure that we’ve thought through all of the angles of what would a spending account look like, what should it look like and let’s make sure that it’s designed well from the ground up, and then we’ll get on to figuring out the rest of the technology.”

“Obviously this would be a significant technological proposal, would require quite a bit of work on behalf of the government, quite a bit of expense to stand up,” Edmonton-Centre MLA David Shepherd told Global News. “And what we’ve seen from the UCP government is they have been pretty bad at this before when they’ve tried to set up other similar payment programs and systems for Albertans.”

Lorian Hardcastle, an associate professor in the Faculty of Law and Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, previously described health spending accounts as an “extremely inefficient way of trying to improve access to health services,” one that does not address the unequal distribution of health issues within a population.

Gah! Experts! The gaul of these people! Best not to listen to them.

Sounds financially prudent. I'm sure this experiment with adding red tape, overhead, and bureaucracy to an already ####ed health system should fix things right up. Same with handing public dollars to woo-woo medicine. We'll have cancer tackled in no time. Looking forward to burning through my account by February.


Thanks, UCP voters. Nice move.