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Amgen Is a Healthy Buy - Barron's

I will use Healthy as a segway into this important subject:

The Alberta Conservatives are well on their way to changing the Canada Health Act into a guideline rather than a law. When this is done anything can be changed. Their program is not about de-listing services; it is about doing away with the Canada Health Act as we know it which will affect every province in the country as a whole and, Stephen Harper is on side!

Health care has been the Conservative holy grail of privatization for many years.

Alberta has legislation in place to allow US Health Care Companies to sell insurance in Alberta and the Alberta Capital Health Authority made a long list of what to de-list from health services (and hand off to the private sector)

Mr. Duckett was hired In Alberta from Queensland Australia where he was instrumental in bringing the US health coverage companies into Australia. This was called "building partnerships".

The word from Australia is do not let them in; your state coverage is greatly reduced and more expensive and, you cannot get rid of them!

The Canada Health Act must be changed by the Federal Government to enable this. The present course is to change the Canada Health Act into a guide line for provinces away from a law which must be followed.

If the Conservatives are sitting (between October and December of this year) the Canada Health Act will be changed dramatically by the Conservatives and public health care as you know it will disappear!

My guess is you will have a change of Government in Canada.