Code Orange: The Self-Referral Toll Highway to Hell
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Code Orange: The Self-Referral Toll Highway to Hell

The reality of the government's new plan to let people buy their own diagnostic scans without a doctor's referral is that the wealthy get a toll lane (with a possible reimbursement) to bypass a gridlocked highway. The rest of us are stuck in an even worse traffic jam. Meanwhile, taxpayers are footing the bill for the detours.

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The warning was written in British blood. Alberta read it and said "hold my beer."
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The warning was written in British blood. Alberta read it and said "hold my beer."

In England, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine felt compelled to publish a study showing 1,300 excess deaths a month from long A&E waits. In Scotland and Wales…No royal college there has felt the need to count bodies and sound the alarm like that. And here in Alberta? …we have Dr. Paul Parks. A past president of our own medical association, touring the province, telling stories, begging for change.

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Code Orange: UCP Can't Attack the Facts, So They Attack the Messenger
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Code Orange: UCP Can't Attack the Facts, So They Attack the Messenger

Recently, the UCP government publicly attacked the credibility of Friends of Medicare, accusing them of spreading misinformation…all of a sudden, they've noticed the organization exists…the government has acknowledged Friends of Medicare - not to engage, not to answer questions, but to discredit them. Talk about picking a fight from the sidelines.

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