Alberta goverment weakening the public health care system: provincial employees union

In a strong statement Saturday morning, Alberta’s Union of Provincial Employees said, it believes, the UCP government is choosing to weaken the public system to fuel ‘for profit’ operators.

“Every health worker in a private facility, or every health worker doing for-profit work in a public hospital, is one less worker providing care for Albertans who can’t afford to jump the queue,” said the AUPE release.

“It will inevitably lead to longer wait times for everyone who cannot afford US-style health care price tags.”

The union, which represents more that 60,000 health-care employees, added the Province “has done nothing to address the serious concerns raised last year about its plan to allow physicians to simultaneously work in public and private health care.”