{"id":6491,"date":"2023-02-07T03:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/shepherd-rebukes-ucp-broken-promises-to-fix-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T03:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T03:22:39","slug":"shepherd-rebukes-ucp-broken-promises-to-fix-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/shepherd-rebukes-ucp-broken-promises-to-fix-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd rebukes UCP broken promises to fix healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WojljTVxLGw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>NDP health critic David Shepherd said Monday it has been more than 100 days since Smith promised to fix health care within 90 days. Smith made the comments in a speech to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce in October, noting it was going to &#8220;be a bit bumpy.&#8221;<br \/>\nShepherd said the UCP has left the health-care system in chaos, leaving Albertans without access to a family doctor, ambulances lining up at hospitals, surgery delays, and exhausted frontline health-care workers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP health critic David Shepherd said Monday it has been more than 100 days since Smith promised to fix health care within 90 days. Smith made the comments in a speech to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce in October, noting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32,2068,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}