Danielle Larivee, a vice-president at the United Nurses of Alberta, said nurses are “very alarmed” by hospital transfers she said could negatively affect care and drive critical health-care workers from the province.
Like Parks, Larivee said the worry is the restructuring will lead to more bureaucracy and less co-ordination across the system.
“We’re not seeing any evidence at all to support the idea that this is about improving access to care, about improving services or even about saving money,” said Larivee in an interview.
“If we’re not saving money and not making care better, why are we doing it?”
What she knows and they don’t is that there is never competition between commercial providers of healthcare. America’s been trying that experiment for years.
What it gets - since there is never enough healthcare - is massive disparity in public and private services (if any public ones are left) based on your HMO’s ability to pay.
This is a challenge to our charter.