{"id":458955,"date":"2026-02-07T03:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:41:09","slug":"opposition-leader-concerned-that-government-is-politicizing-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458955\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Concerned that Government is \u2018Politicizing\u2019 Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/john-hogan-surrounded-by-opposition-caucus.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Opposition Leader Concerned that Government is 'Politicizing' Health Care\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Hogan surrounded by members of the opposition (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Opposition Leader John Hogan says he\u2019s worried that the provincial government is politicizing the health care system. <\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham recently touted government\u2019s \u201crefresh\u201d of the health care system with the removal of Pat Parfrey as CEO of NL Health Services. <\/p>\n<p>Hogan accuses government of making \u201cchange for the sake of change.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CEO of the health authority was the (co-) author and the architect of the Health Accord. Really what you saw was not a refresh, it was change for the sake of change, and what they did was brought in an old conservative ally to lead the board of the health authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, now I worry that it\u2019s not better health care \u2018for all,\u2019 I worry that they\u2019re going to politicize health care.\u201d          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; John Hogan surrounded by members of the opposition (VOCM News) Opposition Leader John Hogan says he\u2019s worried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-458955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458955","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=458955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}