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submitted 10 months ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Alberta intends to opt out of the proposed national pharmacare plan.

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[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 53 points 10 months ago

In an email to Global News on Sunday, Alberta’s health minister said that if the federal government pursues a national pharmacare program, Alberta intends to opt out, and instead intends to obtain a full per capita share of the funding.

So they can just pocket the money like that with no strings attached? wth

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 21 points 10 months ago

I am sure their math will be just as poor for this as it was for the Pension Plan

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah how's that going? (I don't live in Alberta.)

It seems to me this idea of opting out of federal programmes might score some quick political points if you're a have-province, in that it could be argued you're sinking more into them than you're getting out. But Alberta has historically had a boom-and-bust economy, and as such, cutting those federal lifelines seems unwise. But what do I know?

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

I DO live in Alberta, and the general consensus is that (a) almost nobody wants to leave the CPP, but (b) Smith will make it happen, regardless of logic or the will of the people.

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