Alberta Conservative party moves to challenge single payer in the province

[Recursion]

Passed today in the UCP annual general meeting by a majority of the 793 votes cast. This is the first real challenge to the single payer concept that the Canadian system has seen since its inception.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. It's universal. Conservatives wanting to ruin everything.

[Recursion]

2. That's what they do (nt)

[poli-junkie]

3. I wonder if the Kremlin is involved with this?

[roamer65]

4. The Canada Health Act says otherwise.

If they move to a private, for profit system, Ottawa can yank federal health care transfer payments.

[Recursion]

7. They may be willing to take that, and Alberta is pretty far-right as Canada goes

Most of the health care system is paid for by the provinces as it is; Federal spending in Canada on health care is actually lower per capita than in the US.

[roamer65]

8. Yeah, Alberta has taken the place of Quebec as the most troublesome province.

Our federal spending on health care in the US is higher due to immensely inefficient private, for profit bureaucracy.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Trumpvid-19 is clearly incredibly contagious.

[pandr32]

6. No-ooooooooo!

What is it conservatives actually conserve anyway? All they do is undo.

[ironflange]

9. I live in Calgary

Needless to say, I'm not too happy with this.

[arthritisR_US]

11. I live in Calgary too and this pisses me off

royally! Kenny is a greedy, selfish asshole and the Cons are total cons. How anyone could vote those pigs in is beyond me

[ironflange]

12. You took the words right out of my mouth

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Come to American where you can experience

first hand our inefficient and inequitable private health insurance system. We don't really have health care here, just insurance that may or may not cover what ails you.