Leaked: UCP Post-Election Alberta Healthcare Plans
A glimpse into the UCP “fix” for health care.
As Alberta Canada’s provincial election nears its close, an insider in the ruling UCP party contacted me off the record about the party’s plans for health care after the election is over (and assuming they win). I am unable to verify with certainty, and can share no details about this informant without endangering their job and/or making them a target of online hate. I couldn’t in good conscience not share this. I welcome the skeptical to simply consider this a piece of well-informed satire or projection based upon extrapolation from the past statements and bad decisions already made by the party and its current Premier, if that premise helps you to sleep better at night.
The UCP have already told us what they want
The most important thing to understand about the UCP approach to health care is this: They see the state of Alberta’s health care today as movement in the right direction. This is what success looks like to them. The current shambles isn’t remotely their end goal, but it’s a welcome (to them) signpost along the road of their preferred trajectory. Their destination: full throttle US-style healthcare-as-profit-engine privatization. The UCP party made the privatization of Alberta’s health care…
