Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is declining to say if she stands by earlier comments she made proposing Albertans pay out-of-pocket for health care cdnpoli
“One of those main principles is no one pays out-of-pocket for a family doctor, and no one pays for hospital services. That’s in writing.”
“Danielle Smith wants Albertans to pay to see their doctor,” NDP health critic David Shepherd said in a statement. Smith, in turn, said the NDP needs to explain why it continued government practice of charging $40 a day for addiction treatment beds when it was in power from 2015 to 2019. Smith declined to answer and pointed both questioners to her proposal to create health spending accounts. The accounts would give Albertans $300 in seed money with incentives to help them grow the funds to pay for non-insured medical services like therapists and dentists.
However, in the 2021 policy paper she wrote for the University of Calgary before she re-entered politics, and in interviews she did around that time, Smith described health spending accounts as a gateway to get public buy-in to discuss a new way of funding health care, including services currently paid for by the public purse.
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