Merrill Singleton

Radiation therapist that loves burgers, music, and helping people.

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Wow! While the committee is still deliberating on the #ForeverCanadian petition, government just issued a press release that the committee has already made a decision and recommended a referendum on separatism.

Wow! Decision announced before it was made. A gong show?

#ableg

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Holy Cow!!!!

How much was the fix in?

The UCP released a media release announcing their separatist referendum before the committee had even voted!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

@FreeAlbertaRob This is the key message from Justice Miller "For all the reasons stated herein, the majority recommends the adoption of the majority report in its totality." That is not what you are doing, you are picking and choosing which of his recommendations to adopt.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

BREAKING!

After having his corporate offices searched last week and intense pressure from the NDP yesterday, Invest ALberta has quietly announced via their web page that Danielle Smith appointed board member, Sam Jaber, who was also Sam Mraiche's business partner is taking a leave of absence!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Nate Pike @NatePike]

Healthcare workers have been doing everything in their power to raise the alarm on the state of healthcare due to deliberate underfunding and under resourcing for years.

We meant it.

Let me tell you about it.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

Let me contrast this dismal state of planning affairs to what happened in 2015. For MD planning.

At that point GoA recognized we had a shortage of MD's. It also recognized that this differed by geographical area of the province as well as by specialty. /1

[Parksy @PfParks]

This is literally NONSENSE. Absolutely nonsensical!

Reminder: the Premier has NO medical expertise whatsoever, and seems to be getting horrendous advice (if she isn’t intentionally trying to mislead here)

Let’s delve into a couple of points:
https://t.co/KpCsmV6pRf
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[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

Great op-ed and worth a read.

I know many of the authors - they've been colleagues and friends. I respect them. Let me comment on what they point out. /1

Opinion: Public-private surgery plan will keep patient care in Alberta https://t.co/BI6rSRNDlV via @edmontonjournal

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

I want to present another take on the issue of private healthcare.

In the end I'm going to suggest that gov is bringing the free market to bear on the wrong problem, but stay with me as I try to get us there.

The first question is what is the problem we are trying to fix? /1

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

It seems very likely this will pass and AB will try this experiment.

When we do I want us to keep in mind what the promise is and how we can measure whether it was achieved or not.

Because, make no mistake, the promise here is that this will "fix.. long wait times". /1

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

Everyone here seems to be arguing various ideological positions on using private facilities to ease AB's health woes.

Lets look at some data and try to have an evidence based view of some of this. In fact lets look at AB data. /1

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

Let me just put out there another major problem with this.

The creation of a public and private stream of medicine and the ability of physicians to work in both - at their discretion - is an incredible boon to physicians.

Physicians will love this and make $$$. /1

[Braden Manns @BradenMannsYYC]

If your appendix ruptures or your Mom’s hip breaks, you’ll expect a surgeon and anesthetist available in your local hospital. That’s getting harder and harder for Alberta hospitals https://t.co/cNjgtT5lts

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

OK. Lets look at how the GoA's strategy to suppress/oops, administer C-19 vaccination is going this year. Data from the Respiratory dashboard.

We are about 8 weeks into the "campaign" at this point. /1

[Parksy @PfParks]

https://t.co/wLZhZrGQba

Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer...

But let's break this down, shall we?

TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT
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[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

I've had a great conversation with someone who knows how vaccines are ordered and distributed.

Let's see where the blame lies for the vaccine shortfall in AB this year.

A bit of necessary background. Vaccines are not like regular drugs. For something like penicillin - /1

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

I want to paint a picture of how AB's "Pay for your own Screening" is likely going to go. A thread.

I'm going to use a fictional example from my own specialty that I've now just retired from. I'm positive that these discussions have already started. /1

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

This whole thread by Dr Parks spells out how the UCP’s profitization of diagnostics not only won’t make things better…

It will make things much worse.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Even MORE lies from Smith today on the childrens meds...

She claimed that the contract was for $20 million, it was part of the "Covid era" contracts, the shortage was projected to last 3 years & she's trying to get IV acetaminophen to replace opioids.

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#abpoli #cdnpoli

[Max Fawcett 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @maxfawcett]

A giant exercise in manufacturing consent, one that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars and change *nothing* about the underlying issues.

It's meant to distract her base and keep their anger focused at Ottawa. Are they going to let themselves get played *again* like this?