Physicians who choose to remain practicing but doing the responsible thing and closing their doors to patients, are getting HALF the pay that Babylon is getting.
It is about politicians using your blind loyalty to use you, like tools, while they line their pockets. According to Mr. Shandro’s press secretary, Steve Buick, App docs, of course, will redirect patients back to their family physicians as quickly as possible.The few details provided in the government press release about how this is financed are extremely murky. (or no services at all) They are distractions meant to confuse and annoy people to the point where they just abandon their efforts and put up with their woeful state of care. For Edmontonians by Edmontonians!Press J to jump to the feed. This govt has a fiduciary responsibility, of course, to the citizens of Alberta. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. It would be nice to see some real solutions on how to cut 2 billion in compensation offered instead of the constant one-sided attacks.Thanks for the comment.
To anyone who threatened her physically, you should be arrested, and so I hope the police are already investigating these claims… Surely they are.As for his ties to Vital Partners Inc., not many hate this government’s shift to privatized health care more than I do, but even I’m inclined to take the ethics commissioner’s word for it at the moment and set aside my skepticism over this particular issue.
Its not even free market competition when four companies collude to set the prices for years.
You look like morons applauding those that take advantage of you. I’ve known that doc for over 30 years since just after her graduation. The new two-tier medicine: real physicians for the rich, an Internet app for the rest of us?Regardless, Mr. Entwistle personally advised me, through How deep those cuts will be we don’t know: with April 1 two days away, the minister still hasn’t bothered to tell us.Paying doctors less to work more—in an environment of dramatically heightened personal risk, to boot—is perhaps not the best way to rally the troops. Using this app is an alternative to visiting physicians face-to-face when you’re not sure if your symptoms are related to the novel coronavirus There was an even more enthusiastic quote in the release from my buddy Mr. Entwistle, who, among other things, told Albertans Telus hopes it can “mitigate the enormous pressure on our health-care system through our technology, human ingenuity and compassion.”Peace River physician Dr. Heather Shonoski (Photo: Twitter).Remember, this news release is from a government that until last Wednesday was openly at war with Alberta’s physicians, and which furthermore is relentless in its pursuit of ways to cut costs in public health care while skimming off potentially profitable business for its friends in the private sector.He’s right. You are sitting at home in a house that you are not sure you will be able to pay the rent or mortgage on because you have been laid off from your oil field job. The future is not friendly for those who work with Telus and expect a nice comfortable retirement.Dear Shirley: you missed the point of the article. #ableg — Dr. Wing Kar Li (@karliwithakay) March 19, 2020 Completely, unforgivably, unbelievably stupid.Ten percent of health care workers will be sickened by this virus, if the experience of other jurisdictions is any guide. End of story, I assumed.When I checked yesterday to see what was up, however, I discovered “Albertans can use the service to check symptoms, book appointments, see a doctor, and get prescriptions and referrals for diagnostic imaging and specialists — all covered by Alberta Health Care,” the press release said.It also contained a nice canned quote from Health Minister Tyler Shandro: “Alberta is pleased to partner with TELUS to deliver physician services in a new way. I told shandro to pay up, not down. Tyler Shandro Avenue Calgary. Any thoughts on what Babylon-TELUS will do w all that info they just gleaned?Sell it, of course! But it’s certainly not about money for physicians—it’s about being able to keep their doors open to properly serve the people of Alberta.It’s worth pointing out that the value of a pre-pandemic dollar will bear no resemblance to a post-pandemic dollar.