{"id":245473,"date":"2025-10-28T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245473\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:10:10","slug":"lethbridge-residents-to-weigh-in-on-health-care-access-and-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245473\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethbridge residents to weigh in on health care access and privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/53dec0ea-b78c-499f-8c5a-4098f3c49a59.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Dreamstime)<\/p>\n<p>By Haven Thibert<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Medicare<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 27, 2025 | 12:09 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lethbridge residents have the opportunity to share their experiences and concerns about Alberta\u2019s health care system.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Medicare, a non-profit organization (NPO) that advocates for public health care, is holding a townhall in Lethbridge on Sunday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency physician Dr. Paul Parks will lead the discussion on access, restructuring, and privatization.<\/p>\n<p>The event is set to take place at Southminster United Church, with doors opening at 2:30 p.m. and the discussion starting at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Dreamstime) By Haven Thibert Friends of Medicare Oct 27, 2025 | 12:09 PM Lethbridge residents have the opportunity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-245473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}