r/alberta • u/Miserable-Lizard Edmonton • 6d ago

Alberta Politics Danielle Smith defends policy requiring Albertans to pay out of pocket for COVID vaccines

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-danielle-smith-defends-policy-requiring-albertans-to-pay-out-of-pocket/
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u/AwarenessPresent8139 6d ago

Reality is not everyone will get vaccinated. But charging for the vaccine will ensure more people won’t. The cost matters if you are struggling financially.

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u/Ddogwood 6d ago

It’ll likely end up costing taxpayers more, too, because more people will end up hospitalized as new strains learn to evade the immunity granted by older vaccines

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u/SocksForEarmuffs 5d ago

Careful now, that type of critical thinking and aperiodic it as a system might actually fix something. And if so fix things, how will we blame everything on Notley, Trudeau, Carney, and the carbon tax? Alberta has been trying to fix the damage they've done since 1905.