Confused about the Alberta Conservative government's plans to change the health care system - the "Third Way"? You're not the only one. The minister in charge of the portfolio, Health Minister Iris Evans, is too:"We are introducing more options for improving accessibility, improving sustainability. The bottom line is improving public health care but being innovative with other options."
Evans added it is difficult to explain exactly what that all means.
Yet, her government wants to push this legislation through before the spring session ends. How can the public or their MLAs actually make a fact-based analysis about something that even the minister responsible can't explain?
Others are similarly perplexed:
The government has spent this month explaining its plan, Thursday being the final day to do so.
But even those who met with Health Minister Iris Evans, such as Scott Hennig, the Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, weren't clear about what they heard.
"I don't know if I can say for sure," he said. "Looking at the document they produced, it seems to be about opening up the dialogue more than anything."
Anyone familiar with the way Klein's government works knows that so-called public consultation sessions are nothing but PR road shows to push their agenda and that any input received ends up filed in boxes of the legislature's basement. This Third Way road trip, it appears, has created much more concern than support.
Tory MLAs will have a lot to answer for if they intend to stand behind Klein while he forces this down the throats of an unwilling public.
Take action: contact your MLA today and let them know that you demand immediate clarifications about these changes and that you intend to vehemently oppose any member of the legislature who panders to Klein's plans to recklessly expedite passage of such a poorly conceived plan. While you're at it, you can reach Iris Evans here.
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