January 12, 2016 11:50 AM
Alberta Fertility Privatization is the Wrong Direction
You may have seen the January 11, 2016 Edmonton Journal article about the private fertility clinic opening in Edmonton.
Following that we were able to discuss the issue with 630 CHED.
Albertans voted explicitly for public health care in 2015, in funding, and in delivery. Clearly stated in the Alberta NDP platform, they would "end the PCs' costly experiments in privatization, and redirect the funds to publicly delivered services."
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December 09, 2015 3:20 PM
We're pleased to share a joint opinion piece from today's Edmonton Journal with you written by Public Interest Alberta's Seniors Task Force Chair and our Executive Director Sandra Azocar. They've highlighted ongoing issues in continuing care and offer up solutions to help better regulate private care while moving towards greater public involvement.
We think it's an important conversation to be having and encourage you to share via your networks:
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December 01, 2015 3:16 PM
"November 29 - December 5, 2015 is National Medicare Week, an important moment to celebrate our public health care system that is the pride of our nation. It is also a crucial time to focus on our vision for public health care moving forward.
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November 10, 2015 5:30 PM
Nov 10 Update to Members - Open House and More
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We wanted you to be able to save the date for the upcoming Holiday Open House that we are co-hosting with the Alberta Labour History Institute, Public Interest Alberta and the Worker's Health Centre.
This will be on Tuesday, December 1 from 4 - 7 pm, at our new office:
6th floor-12323 Stony Plain Rd NW, Edmonton.
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November 02, 2015 4:55 PM
Executive Director Sandra Azocar's comments made it into Edmonton Sun coverage of the new budget:
""We're going to finally start opening up the door and changing the course we were on before from a corporate culture into a vision of expanding and protecting our public health care."
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October 23, 2015 2:21 PM
Medicine Hat News, Monday, October 22, 2012
CHARLES LEFEBVRE
The public should demand answers about the increasing costs of health care in Alberta. That was the main message delivered Saturday afternoon by Friends of Medicare provincial director Sandra Azocar at Palliser Friends of Medicare’s annual general meeting.
“Alberta Health Services have become radically more politicized and less accountable than the previous system ever was,” she said. “We have a government model that’s turning into a running joke.”
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September 19, 2015 5:07 PM
True leaders learn from the mistakes of others - our friends to the East of Alberta, are heading down the slippery slope of privatization.
Executive Director Sandra Azocar travelled to Saskatchewan to share our experiences with health care privatization as the Saskatchewan Party Government prepares to privatize MRI services.
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August 28, 2015 4:40 PM
Executive Director Sandra Azocar with a group of MLAs, four from Calgary (Anam Kazim, Calgary-Glenmore; Craig Coolahan, Calgary-Klein; Graham Sucha, Calgary-Shaw; and Jamie Kleinsteuber, Calgary-Northern Hills), Edmonton-Whitemud MLA Dr. Bob Turner, and Leduc-Beaumont MLA Shaye Anderson.
Pictured below - Wildrose MLA and Health Critic Drew Barnes.
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