Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's health care plans?  Prepare for user fees, co-pays, privatization and sneaky withdrawal - Alberta Politics

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s health care plans? Prepare for user fees, co-pays, privatization and sneaky withdrawal – Alberta Politics

The answers to the main problems facing Alberta’s health care system, Daniele Smith said in an article published under her name last year, lie in user fees, co-payments, privatization and the sneaky withdrawal of services covered by health insurance by redefining them.

The Downtown House of the University of Calgary School of Public Policy (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).

The document – ​​title Alberta’s Key Challenges and Opportunities – was published by the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary in June 2021.

At the time the newspaper was published, Alberta’s new premier was still chairman of the Alberta Enterprise Group, a business advocacy organization with close ties to the province’s conservative parties, past and present. .

Seemingly unreported by the media, the paper was spotted recently by economics blogger Bob Ascah, a retired senior Alberta Treasury Department official and former director of the University of Alberta’s Institute for Public Economics. ‘Alberta.

The article begins with the silly claim that Albertans are culturally different from other English-speaking Canadians and an amateurish history of the province aimed at suggesting that our so-called entrepreneurial character and entrepreneurial spirit are the source of this character. supposedly unique.

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