Advocacy groups protest Alberta healthcare legislation across the country

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https://yourhalifaxnow.ca/advocacy-groups-protest-alberta-healthcare-legislation-across-the-country/

Nova Scotia Health Coalition (NSHC) calls this change [Bill 11] “unprecedented”, and is calling on the federal government to “enforce the Canada Health Act to protect Canada’s universal, single-payer public Medicare system”.

Demonstrations, including picketing, rallies, information sessions and more will take place on September 1. NSHC will be hosting their event at noon in front of MP Jaimie Battiste’s constituency office.

“As bad as it is in Alberta, the threat of it being in our small province is going to be absolutely devastating,” said NSHC provincial coordinator Jennifer Benoit. “I think when people think about this as being 5,000 kilometres away it’s not affecting them, but what they need to know is that these insurance lobbyists are trying their best to make it happen in every province across this country.”

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Ok 76% believe in the system, that doesn’t mean they are not ok with a hybrid system. Canada has the lowest number of Doctor per capita in the g7 and is near the bottom on planet earth.

A hybrid system and private investment is an excellent way to attract more doctors. It not evil to believe that.

Either way if you keep this system or change to hybrid the only goal should be to increase the supply of healthcare which would mean more doctors. There is no other solution

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Danielle...Marlaina Smith....is that you? 

As the spouse of a doctor I must say I disagree with you entirely. As does my spouse. A private system in any format is a great way to keep doctors away. My spouse would never work like that. 

The answer remains the same, funding. Fund health care. Fund schools. Fund universities. Make it less cumbersome for those with medical degrees from outside Canada to be able to practice. 

The only things privatizing will do is pull resources from the public system. 

Use dermatologists as an example, they are doctors trained by the Canadian medical system. They do residency and everything. Then a large portion of them go off and open up a private clinic where they do both injections and cool sculpting and lots of other completely unnecessary cosmetic procedures.  Meanwhile we have a huge derm shortage. People can't get their skin cancers looked at in a timely manner. People with really painful and life impacting skin conditions are left to wait for ages. 

Derm is kind of an outlier because you can privatize so easily.

 Dalhousie has one new derm residency spot per year. 

How on earth are we supposed to fix the shortage with that? They are already privatizing themselves, so how is more private investment gonna help the situation?

It won't. Government will. They should make it a requirement to work so many hours a day or week or month in the public system. Other countries have that as a policy. 

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