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electricbluesfan.bsky.social
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🚨ALBERTA'S UCP HELLBOUND TO DESTROY PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FOR PRIVATE PROFIT🚨

Alberta's plan to tie hospital funding to procedure volume threatens public healthcare. The "activity-based" model will force prioritize speed over patient care.

#HealthcarePrivatization #PatientCare #ABpoli #ABhealth
April 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
1/12
🚨 CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FALLING TO PRIVATIZATION 🚨

Ontario patients are paying hundreds to thousands for cataract surgeries that should be FREE under OHIP.

Private clinics are allegedly extra-billing and upselling vulnerable seniors.
#HealthcarePrivatization
#PublicHealthcare
June 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
1/9
🚨ALBERTA HEALTHCARE THREATENED BY FUNDING MODEL🚨

Alberta's new "patient-focused funding" hospital model threatens public healthcare.

Experts warn this activity-based funding approach has serious downsides.
#HealthcarePrivatization #AlbertaHealth #ABpoli #ABleg #ABhealth
April 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
1/8
🚨UCP'S SURGICAL VOUCHERS THREATEN PUBLIC HOSPITALS🚨

Friends of Medicare warns Alberta's surgical funding model, vouchers instead of global hospital budgets, is "another blow to public hospitals" designed to accelerate privatization.
#HealthcarePrivatization #PublicHealthcare #ABpoli #ABhealth
April 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
4/13 Health care undergoes the most radical transformation. Braid's analysis exposes legislation allowing private corporations to operate public hospitals—potentially placing institutions like Foothills under corporate management while maintaining public funding.
#HealthcarePrivatization #ABHealth
May 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
3/9 "They are more focused on what they like to call competition than they are on actually making sure people get good health care," warns NDP health critic Sarah Hoffman, highlighting the government's true priorities.
#CompetitionModel #CarePriorities
#HealthcarePrivatization #ABpoli #ABhealth
April 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
6/8 The Alberta NDP warns this enables privatization of hospital management. The bill's language explicitly allows the minister to hand control to private operators when the minister "deems it a good idea"—a point confirmed by Storrie's analysis.
That's disturbing 😱
#HealthcarePrivatization #ABpoli
May 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
stustin.bsky.social
Will corruption sink Trump? It hasn't made a dent in the Doug Ford government, so far. #Ontario #Greenbelt #ScienceCentre #OntarioPlace #Metrolinx #healthcareprivatization #cronies #developers #cdnpoli #cdnmedia www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable
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May 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
8/9 European countries using similar models have robust community and home health care systems to support quick discharges—supports Alberta lacks, putting patients at risk under this model.
#SafetyNets #PatientSupport
#HealthcarePrivatization #PatientCare #ABpoli #ABhealth
April 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
robrodgers.bsky.social
Yep!
#HealthCarePrivatization by these #ConservativeParty #Premiers is almost enough to make you SICK! 🤓
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May 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
health-wrregion.bsky.social
Global healthcare policy experts describe it as a "zombie"—an outdated, pre-1940s concept that refuses to die. Dr. Danyaal Raza explains. 😠
#PatientsNotProfit #HealthcarePrivatization #PublicHealthcare #SaveOurHealthcare
August 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
6/8 Friends of Medicare suggests the announcement may be "a distraction from the ongoing allegations and scandal around the procurement of surgical contracts with for-profit centres."
#PoliticalDistraction #Procurement
#HealthcarePrivatization #PublicHealthcare #ABpoli #ABhealth
April 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
health-wrregion.bsky.social
Privatization shifts healthcare from a duty to a financial transaction. - Sara Black McCulloch, writer ☹️ 🤒
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#HealthcarePrivatization #HealthAsATransaction #AccessToCare #EquityInHealth #UniversalHealthCare
I had cancer twice before turning 35. This is what now worries me about the direction of Canadian health care - Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Privatized healthcare reduces what should be a shared social risk to an individual burden, writes Sara Black McCulloch. July 3, 2026 By Sara Black McCulloch, Contributor Toronto Star In the American i...
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July 5, 2026 at 1:43 AM
robrodgers.bsky.social
Yup … every time #DougFord speaks all I hear is what his actions are saying!

“I DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANY OF YOU.”

#ConservativesAreLyingToYou
#GreenbeltScandal
#HealthCarePrivatization
#ODSP cuts
#ER-Closures all in support of the #ConservativeParty and their #Oligarch campaign contributors! 🤓
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May 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
robrodgers.bsky.social
#Ontarians have a GOOD LONG LOOK at …
“What #DougFord is hoping YOU won’t notice” 🤓
#GreenbeltScandal
#OntarioPlace
#ScienceCenter
#HealthCarePrivatization

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What Doug Ford Is Hoping You Won't Notice
YouTube video by Steve Boots
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May 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
2/8 "Rather than addressing much-needed capacity and workforce planning, the Premier is blowing things up with a plan to use public money to accelerate health care privatization," says Chris Gallaway, FOM's executive director.
#HealthcarePrivatization #PublicHealthcare #ABpoli #ABhealth
April 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
9/9 NDP health critic Sarah Hoffman called the extension "inappropriate" while investigations are ongoing, arguing hospitals could provide more surgeries if properly staffed instead of expanding privatization.

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#NDPResponse #HealthcarePrivatization
Acute Care Alberta extends contract with private surgery clinic at centre of conflict of interest probes | CBC News
The Alberta agency overseeing acute care has granted a six-month contract extension to a private surgical clinic whose previous provincial government contracts are the subject of several ongoing probe...
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May 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
5/7 Instead, the Premier stated the change "will allow for us to choose the operator. And that will allow us to repurpose them to our needs." At a private UCP meeting last summer, she reportedly discussed turning hospitals over to private operators.
#ABpoli #HealthcarePrivatization
May 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
robrodgers.bsky.social
lol … “UH…YA 🤓
How bout the rest of the #ConservativeParty gang members?
#DougFord
#DanielSmith
#TimHouston

Have I missed anyone?
#GreenbeltScandal
#OntarioPlace
#ScienceCenter
#ODSP cuts
#HealthCarePrivatization
#ZeroPublicHousingSpaces
Have I missed anything?
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May 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
robrodgers.bsky.social
lol … when are folks gonna realize that the #ConservativeParty and #TrickyDougie have been pulling a #Trump on the #WorkingClass for decades!
#OntarioPlace #OntarioScienceCenter #HealthcarePrivatization
#ODSP 🤓
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May 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
robrodgers.bsky.social
lol … but #DougFord & the #ConservativeParty have been putting taxpayer money where his mouth is for decades right in Monty and his corporate associates pockets by allowing
#HealthCarePrivatization
#OntarioPlace
#ScienceCenter
#GreenbeltScandal
#LCBO
#ODSP cuts and no new
#PublicHousing 🤓
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May 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
robrodgers.bsky.social
lol … 2016 #DougFord thinks that “nobody can buy #DonaldTrump” and that
“politicians are talking out of both sides of their mouths” as he does the #GreenbeltGiveaway
#OntarioPlace
#OntarioScienceCenter
#HealthCarePrivatization as he ✂️’s #OSDP 🤓

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Video: Doug Ford says his support of Donald Trump is unwavering
CityNews reporter Cynthia Mulligan spoke with former city councillor and longtime conservative Doug Ford about Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump
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May 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
robrodgers.bsky.social
Yup but who needs a hot mike here’s our #Dougie the first time he was honest about his deep fondness of his friend the #ConvictedFelon! 🤓

#HealthCarePrivatization
#GreenBeltScandal
#OntarioPlace
#ScienceCenter
#ODSP cuts
#LCBO
toronto.citynews.ca/video/2016/1...
Video: Doug Ford says his support of Donald Trump is unwavering
CityNews reporter Cynthia Mulligan spoke with former city councillor and longtime conservative Doug Ford about Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump
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May 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
health-wrregion.bsky.social
See Different on TikTok: Why are provincial governments pushing for the privatization of healthcare? There is a clear link between greater privatization and higher mortality rates. 🤔 ☹️
#HealthcarePrivatization #PublicHealthCrisis #MortalityRates #HealthEquity #GovernmentPolicy
July 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM