Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government Reorganizes to Further Privatize Health Care
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Abstract
Since the 1990s, Alberta has been a leader in attempting to reform its health care system. These reforms have largely focused on delivery of services and governance. Underpinning these policy changes has been a continuing effort to promote privatization in the health sector, an idea which can be defined as the results of a range of strategic choices: “increasing out-of-pocket payments for care, private ownership, for-profit methods, privatized care work, private responsibility, and private decision-making regarding the organization and delivery of health care” (Bryant and Raphael 2020, 137). While these efforts have been tempered over the years by political leadership and fluctuations in the provincial economy, the renewed push by the current United Conservative Party (UCP) government appears to be the most overt and aggressive effort since the Ralph Klein government of the 1990s. This article provides an update from a recently completed book about Alberta’s health care system (Church and Smith 2006; Church and Smith 2022). Much of the efforts of the current government have focused. [full text continues in PDF / HTML].
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".