Health Care

For most of the past decade, Alberta has been "ground zero" for debates over the future of Medicare in Canada. Our province was the first to impose deep cuts to nurses and other health care staff in the mid 90s. The Klein government was also the first provincial government to contract-out support services and engage in other dangerous experiments with private health care.

The Threat of the Third Way

The latest government attempt to privatize our Medicare system is the most serious yet. The Conservatives' so-called "Third Way" health care reform will open the door to more private health care, queue jumping for those who can pay, and a shortage of doctors in the public system.

Albertans have very little time to tell the government that we don't want more private health care. The AFL is urging Albertans to phone or email their MLA and demand they put the brakes on the Third Way.

For more information on how to contact your MLA, click here.

For more information on what the Third Way will mean for you, click here.

To keep up to date on the campaign to stop the Conservatives' plans, go to www.keepmedicarepublic.ca.

 

AFL and Health Care

Throughout these turbulent times - from the laundry workers strike in 1995 to the more recent battles over Bill 11 and the Mazankowski report - the Alberta Federation of Labour has been at the forefront of the fight to preserve public health care. Under our current Executive Council, the AFL has pledged to continue playing a leading role in the province-wide campaign to preserve quality health care and stop the spread of private, for-profit medicine.

• AFL presentation to the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada [PDF 360K]
• First Ministers drop the ball on saving Medicare
• Raising the alarm about the Alberta government's blueprint for "reform"
• The truth about health spending in Alberta
• The truth about Medicare and the aging population
• The truth about private health care's track record from around the world
• Solutions for an affordable public health care system
• Response to Premier's "Third Way" Proposal

The AFL continues to work closely with Friends of Medicare and other defenders of public health care to prevent the creeping privatization of our Medicare system.

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