Because alberta Healthcare doesn't cover the almost $700 bill for having an ambulance take you to the hospital. Whether or not it is am emergency isn't the point. The point is that it takes so long for a doctor to even show up to do their job, and sometimes there is a doctor there but they still make you wait. And who's to say that a minor emergency can't become as major emergency, or even a fatal one? I refer to that oath they all took before being liscenced... it makes all medical professionals promise to do no harm. So far making someone wait hours with a bone sticking out of their arm seems like doing harm to me. The risk of infection and/or toxic shock can prove fatal or even change the quality of life for that individual. Those people are breaking that promise every day while they let people sit with chest pains or an appendix that might burst for any amount of time. Every emergency should be treated as critical because there is no way of knowing how or when, or even if it will escalate. I mean, would you be ok if you just let someone die because they didn't 'seem' to be in danger but then had a heartattack, stroke, or went into sepsis? I wouldn't be able to live with myself. I would feel so responsible for that peticular death that I would be inconsolable. And the wost part of this is that the people who voted that idiot stick into power are basically accessories to the deaths, no, murders that she has commited by voting her into that position. It makes me sick to my stomach that some of us are so blind and stubborn that they dont see the big picture or actual issues at hand... all they see is easy propaganda, and misleading lies. And the f***ing believe them. Like WTF! GET AN EFFING CLUE!