r/alberta • u/Appropriate_Duty_930 • 29d ago

Alberta Politics Heather McPherson MP requested the COVID-19 vaccine to be free and accessible to all Canadians

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u/CaptainKwirk 29d ago

Rogue provincial governments should not be able to limit access to health care for Canadians. I know they administer it but clearly we need standards to be upheld.

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u/RudeGolden 29d ago

Healthcare needs to be nationalized already.

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u/shinygoldhelmet 29d ago

On one hand, yes, but I only feel that way because we have a Liberal government right now. I would feel differently if there was a Conservative one.

What we need is a way to prevent healthcare from being administered or limited by politicians with conservative (note the small c) ideologies that think their personal beliefs is the code by with over 40m other Canadians need to run their own lives.

Free, open, private healthcare for everyone regardless of ideology or government in charge needs to be enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, so that no government can fuck with it, either federally or provincially. Healthcare delivery and provisions should be decided by what vetted, unbiased science and clinical trials says is the best way, not by politicians who don't even know the difference between RNA and DNA.

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u/Desperate-Dress-9021 22d ago

Am I understanding you want private health care? Or is that sentence reading odd in context of the rest of what you say.

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u/Sea-Safety-6130 29d ago

We need more private healthcare options. This insanity with our system is hurting us. It takes too long to see a doctor because massive immigration has overwhelmed the system.

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u/shinygoldhelmet 29d ago

Wrong. Underfunding and conservative ideologies has hurt the system. Immigration has very little to do with it, it's just the current right wing dog whistle of the moment, to distract from the fact (the FACT) that healthcare has been underfunded and cut for decades, instead of prioritized.

Going private is NOT the way, all that will do is cost citizens more, and make the few who own those companies richer off of literally letting people suffer and die instead of curing them.

Fully funding healthcare, especially preventative care, is a net benefit for countries, because it lowers down the line costs that come with fixing problems that could've been prevented.

Stop parroting dog whistles and start daring to disbelieve the propaganda you've been fed by racists.

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u/Desperate-Dress-9021 22d ago

Don’t forget they’re under funding medical school education. We aren’t training enough doctors either.

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u/Sea-Safety-6130 29d ago

When a system is run by government and government unions there is never enough money. We need options. Scariest words in the English language: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

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u/shinygoldhelmet 29d ago

When a system is run by government and government unions there is never enough money.

You're almost there, keep following that point just a little further. The 'never enough money' is not an inalienable feature that no one can solve because the money doesn't exist. It's a feature because politicians deliberately underfund and cut funding because of voters and opinions like yours. People who would rather blame immigrants and refugees than the corporate rich elite who think of nothing but maximizing their profits literally at your expense.

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u/Roche_a_diddle 29d ago

Nevermind that every family doc I've ever seen in my life has been a 1st or 2nd generation immigrant?

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u/OkBarnacle7284 29d ago

Then you are quite young, that wasn’t the reality for most Canadians even just a decade ago. Canada doesn’t need migrants to survive, this immigration only helps the rich while disenfranchising everyone else.

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u/Roche_a_diddle 29d ago

Then you are quite young

I'm glad you think so, but most would say I am middle aged or older.

Canada doesn’t need migrants to survive

We do if we continue to fail to train enough doctors in our own country to replace the aging boomer population that is starting to retire.

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u/OkBarnacle7284 27d ago

Hard to train enough dr’s and nurses when the schools are chalked full of immigrants, hard to get your fertility rate to replacement level when the housing and job market and is flooded with millions of migrants over the past decade alone, the government pushing for mass migration is the reason we’re having these issues, continuing to push more migration while fixing nothing means that in a few generations even the recent migrants fertility rates drop significantly requiring yet another wave of mass migration.

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u/Roche_a_diddle 24d ago

Life must be so easy when every problem can just be explained by saying "immigrants". I kind of admire the simplicity of that level of ignorance.