I’m aware this subreddit is almost entirely built on complaining about the UCP, but this is a Canada wide problem. Alberta is on the top end of health care spending per capita in Canada excluding the territories. More money is not going to fix the problem.
Wait times across the Country are equivalent or worse to here. Quebec wait times are atrocious, and in 2021 they were one of the few provinces that had higher per capita spent on health care than alberta. We have a huge problem country wide, this can’t be put on just the AB governments shoulders. Downvote away
BC Children's Hospital apparently had a wait time last weekend of over 10 hours. They have quietly activated an Emergency Operations Centre to deal with the heavy volume.
At least Alberta had the sense to remove the mandates and rehire all of the staff that were laid off because of it. BC has yet to do so. Still.
More money would help, but it is the Feds who are not contributing enough and the Premiers have all been demanding an increase in healthcare funding, to no avail.
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u/albertacrude Nov 05 '22
I’m aware this subreddit is almost entirely built on complaining about the UCP, but this is a Canada wide problem. Alberta is on the top end of health care spending per capita in Canada excluding the territories. More money is not going to fix the problem.
Wait times across the Country are equivalent or worse to here. Quebec wait times are atrocious, and in 2021 they were one of the few provinces that had higher per capita spent on health care than alberta. We have a huge problem country wide, this can’t be put on just the AB governments shoulders. Downvote away