Your out of province health care not adequate for Alberta!

cyberclark

Electoral Member
For those of you moving to Alberta to work, be aware that your out of province health care coverage is not sufficient to cover your medical costs in this province! Alberta’s health care costs are much higher as you will be directed to private service facilities when you apply for medical help!

Alberta Doctors already on record of pushing for "upgrade" and "short waiting list" health care incorporating very large additional premium charges.

Don’t count on Harper and company for help, Ralph’s buddy visit with Mr. Harper was not about local fishing! More lies and misdirection?

Current coverage offered by employers in Alberta (except for the oil companies plans) will not cover you a speedy consolation and treatment! Wolf

Before you move here, know the risks!
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John Clark
cyberclark@shaw.ca
 

TenPenny

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RE: Your out of province health care not adequate for Albert

And for those of you from Quebec, note that the Province of Quebec generally pays out of province doctors less than any other province, so some doctors won't accept Quebec cards.
 

jjaycee98

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Re: Your out of province health care not adequate for Albert

We moved from BC to Alberta. We had referrals from our Doctor in BC for several treatments including surgery and specialist visits for 3 years prior to moving to Alberta to be near treatment. We have never been charged any extra and were never refused treatment. After moving to Alberta our BC coverage was used until we were able to get Alberta Health Care.

You sound like you are beating the drum of some Political agenda.
 

cyberclark

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Re: Your out of province health care not adequate for Albert

Not beating drums my friend. Ralph and company have decided to launch their private health care program. You got in through the window of opportunity.

When an Alberta person goes to a Alberta facility, the money for the service comes out of the Alberta pocket. Likewise BC.
However, when a BC person comes to Alberta for a service the Alberta Government bills BC so no loss of revenue and perhaps a small profit for Alberta.

In the last two weeks there has been a clinic opened in Calgary where physicians are offering annual subscriptions to full access to their clinic at I think the figure was 3500 dollars per person and some 5000 dollars per year per family. This gives you quick access to the physicians, it does not pay for treatment.

This was all okay with the Alberta Government, the College of Physicians and Surgeons told them to back off.

Other incidents reported in Alberta papers indicted the patients are offered a choice of wait and get it fixed by Alberta Health or pay extra and have it fixed tomorrow.

Other reports are that people who resisted the offer were put onto the faster list, not the waiting one.

It is chaos now. I reason, if the situation is urgent, you will be asked to pay up for the rush treatment. BC and other provinces have no provision for what would be considered an upscale treatment.

Mr. Harper's crew made a statement this was a plan not an operation and they would consider it. Harper's crew knows full well what is happening in Alberta and they have the problems of trying to make a formula that will be accepted across Canada.

Keep in mind the Quebec decision is not binding in any way on Canada.

Not beating drums; this happens to be the way things are at this time and, I am very curious to see if Mr. Harper will re-write the Canada Health Act or not and will he go up against his Conservative friends in the West to protect and dismantle what this crew is doing or not.

I have predicted he will go the course of Ralph's plan and I still stand by that.

What I really find curious is that Ralph tabled his health care fiasco when I busted him on his move to privitize water provincially. Perhaps bigger dollars to be made on Water??