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Originally Posted by Firebot
Smith's UCP fully deserve all the flack they are getting with Dynalife which was an abject failure (one of many) and a definite credibility hit on attempting to privatize elements of healthcare.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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I don't think that the recent Dynalife fiasco is a definite credibility hit to privatization because it had actually run a very effective lab service in Edmonton for about 25 years prior to 2021 so that shows the model actually works. What didn't work was giving a much larger contract to a company that couldn't handle the expansion and workload. One can potentially also argue that the decision in 2016 by the NDP to purchase Dynalife and roll them into the public health realm may have created some sort of business uncertainty which was exasperated by the UCP's subsequent decisions to continue on with Dynalife.