Alberta New Democrat Party leader Rachel Notley said fixing the health care crisis is her top priority.
“If you need a doctor, you will get a doctor,” Notley pledged. The party has committed that “within 10 years, up to one million more Albertans will have access to a doctor within a day or two.”
“Here are some of my commitments,” Notley said on May 2. “Launching the largest healthcare recruitment campaign in Alberta history. Building the Red Deer Hospital expansion. Connecting one million more Albertans with a family doctor.”
Notley said if elected, she would “bring transformational changes to public healthcare,” and ensure doctors worked more evenings and weekends. She has also promised free birth control pills and other contraceptives, as well as a “Healthcare Innovation Challenge Fund” with an initial NDP government investment of $75 million over three years….