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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
I don’t disagree. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any referrals made at all. Only more medication on top of medication.
I don’t follow along too closely with the whole AHS is broken and needs to be fixed thing. I am sure there are many things that need improvement.
Can you point to another province in this country that we should be trying to copy from? I understand that hate for how things are going here, but I wonder how we are doing compared to other provinces (I haven’t looked or attempted to look).
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I don't know what other provinces are doing. I'm not sure that matters. We live here, with the Alberta Advantage, where we have vast resource revenues, so much that no government in Alberta has deemed necessary a PST to pay for our needs. This government, and ones before, have seen fit to waste billions on the O&G sector(Keystone XL as one example) while denigrating our healthcare workers and doing nothing in their power to reduce stresses on their employment. So much so that many are leaving(BTimbit's anecdotes can speak to that) because who want to work for the UCP(now that it is the UCP and not AHS)?
Frankly, there is no excuse Alberta can't solve these problems given our access to financial resources and I'm pretty tired of the lame excuse that the money isn't there, that we need to make tough decisions, cuts etc. None of these are new problems, I've dealt with hallway medicine 13 years ago. ####ing fix it already. We should have the best medical system in North America. The excuses are pathetic. But this is what Albertans keep voting for, so naturopaths and chiropractors it is. Yet I'm told they aren't morons.
####ing hell.