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Today is Tommy Douglas Day! Celebrating the contributions of Thomas Clement Douglas: the "Greatest Canadian" & the man who brought universal Medicare to Canada.
It's also our executive director's 43rd birthday!🎂
Will you make Chris' bday wish come true?
friendsofmedicare.org/tommy_…
ALT Blue filtered photo of Tommy Douglas. Overlaid text reads, "43 reasons to support Friends of Medicare... This Tommy Douglas Day, help make Chris' birthday wish come true! friendsofmedicare.org/join," alongside a photo of Chris Gallaway holding a round, red "No Two Tier American-Style Health Care" sign.
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I'm a proud member of @FriendsMedicare! Join me in supporting their work to protect & strengthen Alberta's public health care system. friendsofmedicare.org/donate…
This year's @ParklandInst conference focuses on "an emerging collective response to corporate oligarchy and right-wing autocracy" — exactly what Alberta needs right now!
Join them at the U of A or online November 20 - 22! Details & tickets: parklandconference.ca/ – at Edmonton, Alberta
Our annual conference is less than a month away! Check out the great lineup of speakers we’re bringing to you and all the important issues they’ll be talking about. Then make sure to save the date — or register now!
parklandconference.ca/
“Serious, ongoing safety concerns have been raised over Grifols’ paid plasma sites across the country, including at the Calgary collection site which was found to be non-compliant with federal safety regulations”: FOM's Chris Gallaway
ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/… – at Alberta, Canada
👏👏👏"Canadians should have access to the care they need, not just the care they can afford"
Canada's doctors are sending a message to our governments: protect our public health care!📢Amplify their call: friendsofmedicare.org/Enforc…
cma.ca/about-us/press-room/s… – at Alberta, Canada
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“I show up for a shift and I try not to look at all the pain and suffering around me,” he said. “Because it is unmanageable.”
100s of my Emerg docs across the province feel the same way...
Our govt refuses to declare the ED crisis or to act!
Friends of Medicare retweeted
Here's a good crash course on Bill 11 in AB with @FriendsMedicare Director Chris
Gallaway and Rebecaa Graff-McRae of @ccpa on community radio station CJSR FM 88 in Edmonton cjsr.com/ #abpoli
FOM's Chris Gallaway joined @ParklandInst Research Manager, Rebecca Graff-McRae on CJSR's Pivot Points last Wednesday for a (great) conversation about Alberta's (not great) moves towards two-tier, American-style health care!
Listen here: cjsr.com/shows/pivotpoints/
Medicine Hat friends: your local FOM chapter is holding their AGM Nov. 3 👇
Join the growing fight to defend Alberta's public healthcare! – at Medicine Hat, Alberta
Join us for our free, public AGM meeting to get involved in our work to protect & strengthen public care in the Medicine Hat region & beyond! See friendsofmedicare.org/pallis… for details. #AbHealth #MedHat
“We cannot allow another preventable tragedy like the tainted blood scandal to occur. It is past time for Health Canada to step in to protect patients and the integrity of our blood and blood plasma supply in Canada,” said Gallaway.
ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/b… – at Alberta, Canada
Happy convention @yourAUPE delegates!
Come by our table to say hi, grab a button or sticker, and take action to protect and strengthen public health care ✊ 💙
For-profit company Grifols has announced they are lifting their paid plasma collection pause—including reopening an Edmonton site.
“Enough with the backroom deals & corporate takeover. Our governments need to step in to ensure safety": Chris Gallaway.
friendsofmedicare.org/paid_p… – at Edmonton, Alberta
ALT Green-filtered photo of hung up blood collection bags. Text reads: "Paid Plasma Ban Urgently Needed as Collection Centres Set to Reopen In Alberta. Read FOM's response: friendsofmedicare.org/news"
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“Forcing one group of people to pay out-of-pocket for health care is the first step to making us all pay out-of-pocket for health care." #ableg #abpoli
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FOM's Chris Gallaway joined @ParklandInst Research Manager, Rebecca Graff-McRae on CJSR's Pivot Points last Wednesday for a (great) conversation about Alberta's (not great) moves towards two-tier, American-style health care!
Listen here: cjsr.com/shows/pivotpoints/ – at Alberta, Canada
Friends of Medicare retweeted
Happy birthday to the feisty and funny founder of health care Tommy Douglas, and to one of his exemplary successors Chris Gallaway, of Alberta’s Friends of Medicare @FriendsMedicare . Let us continue the fight for universal public healthcare. #abpoli #cdnpoli
Today is Tommy Douglas Day! Celebrating the contributions of Thomas Clement Douglas: the "Greatest Canadian" & the man who brought universal Medicare to Canada.
It's also our executive director's 43rd birthday!🎂
Will you make Chris' bday wish come true?
friendsofmedicare.org/tommy_…
ALT Blue filtered photo of Tommy Douglas. Overlaid text reads, "43 reasons to support Friends of Medicare... This Tommy Douglas Day, help make Chris' birthday wish come true! friendsofmedicare.org/join," alongside a photo of Chris Gallaway holding a round, red "No Two Tier American-Style Health Care" sign.
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Please read!
17hr wait is NOT an abnormality...
"We can’t lose sight of our humanity. A health-care system shouldn’t be judged only by whether care eventually arrives, but by what children and families are asked to endure to reach it."
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What Chris wants more than anything this year is to fulfil Tommy's dream of truly universal public health care — Will you help?
💙Support Friends of Medicare's work by getting your 2027 membership TODAY: friendsofmedicare.org/join
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Take a moment to read.
The math is simple. We have double the population with less hospital beds then in the 1980s.
It isn't immigrants. It's govt's ignoring our hospital and workforce planning and building.
It's lack of HCWs and BEDs!
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Catch our new episode and then use the link below to protect Alberta and Canada’s healthcare!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
This conversation between Alberta doctors is worth your listen! Important refresher on Bill 11 & 'dual practice', the major risks it poses to patients & systems, & some overdue solutions to our health care issues.
📢Amplify their calls to action: friendsofmedicare.org/Enforc…
Friends of Medicare retweeted
You really should watch The Breakdown show and send a message to the Feds about the state of healthcare in Alberta. Hit the Friends of Medicare link to send that email message to PM Carney, Health Minister Michel and your local MP. Takes just a minute. 🇨🇦
This conversation between Alberta doctors is worth your listen! Important refresher on Bill 11 & 'dual practice', the major risks it poses to patients & systems, & some overdue solutions to our health care issues.
📢Amplify their calls to action: friendsofmedicare.org/Enforc…
This conversation between Alberta doctors is worth your listen! Important refresher on Bill 11 & 'dual practice', the major risks it poses to patients & systems, & some overdue solutions to our health care issues.
📢Amplify their calls to action: friendsofmedicare.org/Enforc… – at Alberta, Canada
Episode 8.56 - Fighting Back Against The UCP’s Stripmining of Alberta’s Healthcare xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1RJjpbZLg…
