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It leads straight to privatization, of course. And then we'll all pay even more.

#Daniellezebub pushing to sell public hospitals to Covenant Health makes so much more sense now.

what’s particularly perverse is that most other jurisdictions in canada were doing this too. so nobody’s really getting more nurses, they’re all just paying a premium to hire the neighbors’ nurses

Wow, shocked not shocked

Appel's Alberta reporting is now particularly important given this new precedent in Toronto over agency nursing outsourcing by Unity Health: bsky.app/profile/pica...

AHS has a locum nurse program. They could chose to hire local nurses, and expand it across Alberta, instead of just the north. They'd cut out the middle men agencies, and save millions. But the purpose of UCP is to destroy public healthcare & siphon $ to private interests.

This isn't the only way the public pays more. Guess who interviews these nurses? Any desk person at the agency, who only asks 4 nursing license. Not all of them require references. The system ends with "patch"care by mediocre nurses, who move on the minute they might get into trouble 4 poor care