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[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 days ago

"We had to make it harder for people to access preventative healthcare, it's just too wasteful!"

We're letting those preventable issues turn into real issues that put a constant strain on what precious little healthcare resources we do have, and it results in people dying in waiting rooms. I'm not sure how that's less wasteful.

But hey, this a just another instance of conservatives doing and saying anything to wrest the healthcare system out of the public's hands.

From a business standpoint it makes perfect sense, any money the government invests into preventative medicine now, is money they miss out on from treating the symptoms once healthcare is privatized.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

Works as intended.

If Alberta just charged a 5% pst like most other provinces they would have a balanced budget and be back to being a "have" province.

Then they wouldnt have to do all this stupid crap like trying to privatize their healthcare system desperately trying to balance the books.

[-] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Thankfully I managed to get mine without the fee in a different province. The nice lady just called me Fat and signed it off 😔

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I feel bad for the innocents, but whoever chooses to roll these dice and is unlucky, well maybe the gene pool is just better off.

It's a great way to weed out ignorant and empathy-less people.

[-] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

And the poor too!

Wait, what was that about empathy-less people?

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

is she trying out shine PP or something.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

She's trying to pretend she's governor of a US state.

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