Showing posts with label Alberta Health Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alberta Health Care. Show all posts

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Health Care Index


Apr 16, 2012
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared . .... This health authority can sell any hospital or equity in their control for any amount of money without checking with the legislature or getting further approval! This is ...
Aug 05, 2011
The Canadian health-care system may be plagued by countless stories of lengthy wait times and crowded emergency rooms, but a new study shows the amount of time and money spent on administrative duties is a fraction of ...
Feb 12, 2006
HEALTHCARE The myth of un-sustainable and the Premier's privatization agenda: The un-sustainability myth began early in the 1970s when a group of people recognized the baby boom of the 50s was going to cause an ...
Apr 19, 2011
Iggy said he would Convene a First Ministers meet within 60 days of being elected. The First Ministers is ruled by the 5 western and territorial leaders all Conservative. I say no First Ministers meet until after provincial elections!


Apr 08, 2011
Conservatives are saying our health care is going to hell in a basket; Canadian Republicans working to install a multi payer system in Canada; the same system that is bankrupting the US! The US the republicans are trying to ...
May 06, 2006
This is an American Article by Americans! May 5, 2006 Op-Ed Columnist Our Sick Society By PAUL KRUGMAN Is being an American bad for your health? That's the apparent implication of a study just published in The Journal ...
Oct 08, 2008
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared ... ► July (1) ... Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs? Health Care Platform by Conservatives is a lie! ... Alberta Health Care Less expensive than the US ver.
Sep 10, 2009
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared ... ► July (1) ... Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs? Health Care Platform by Conservatives is a lie! ... Alberta Health Care Less expensive than the US ver.


Apr 08, 2011
Conservatives are saying our health care is going to hell in a basket; Canadian Republicans working to install a multi payer system in Canada; the same system that is bankrupting the US! The US the republicans are trying to ...
May 06, 2006
This is an American Article by Americans! May 5, 2006 Op-Ed Columnist Our Sick Society By PAUL KRUGMAN Is being an American bad for your health? That's the apparent implication of a study just published in The Journal ...
Oct 08, 2008
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared ... ► July (1) ... Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs? Health Care Platform by Conservatives is a lie! ... Alberta Health Care Less expensive than the US ver.
Sep 10, 2009
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared ... ► July (1) ... Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs? Health Care Platform by Conservatives is a lie! ... Alberta Health Care Less expensive than the US ver.



Jul 07, 2009
The Alberta Gazette leaves the notation "more changes- new document to be produced shortly)" This is really bad for Albertans. When will you see Conservative for what it is and vote otherwise? Contract or self-insurance plan ...
Nov 13, 2008
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared ... ► July (1) ... Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs? Health Care Platform by Conservatives is a lie! ... Alberta Health Care Less expensive than the US ver.
Oct 01, 2006
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared ... ► July (1) ... Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs? Health Care Platform by Conservatives is a lie! ... Alberta Health Care Less expensive than the US ver.
Apr 13, 2007
Canada Health Care very inexpensive when compared ... ► July (1) ... Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs? Health Care Platform by Conservatives is a lie! ... Alberta Health Care Less expensive than the US ver.


Dec 19, 2010
Recent changes to the Health Authority did more than moving the Health Care from Capital Health to the more aggressive Regional Health Authorities! When this transition was done, the title for the hospitals moved away from ...
Nov 18, 2010
Privatized COD type Health Care has long been the holy grail of the Conservative Party. They are dug in to put Alberta on a US system, like it or not. And, the Alberta Conservatives are no exception; they consider themselves ...
Dec 03, 2010
Dr. Terri Jackson, a professor in the University of Alberta's faculty of medicine and dentistry who has a doctoral degree in health policy writes in her extensive letter, how conservative governments around the world “break trust ...
Dec 22, 2010
We can readily see that the U.S. has worse life expectancy, infant mortality rates, and obesity rates that Canada, yet pays more for these relatively poorer outcomes. Canada is clearly better…right? Posted by John at 1:28 PM ...



Mar 10, 2006
The Minister has managed to give me a cut and paste of her news release but even so, it is something to dwell on. Still no details means they don't know what they can get away with. Light up their emails and phones! Mr. John ...
May 25, 2010
Llano wrote: Networc Health = Health Resource Centre was deadheaded by Doc Stephen Miller who used to be head of orthopedic sugary at the FootHills Hospital. Dr Stephen Miller owned Columbia Health which was the ...
Nov 08, 2006
Hello, The following column, by Parkland Research Director Diana Gibson, was written in response to an article written last week by Preston Manning and Mark Milke advocating private health insurance. Diana's column ...
Oct 12, 2009
Alberta's health system is governed by a complex web of legislation, regulation and contractual agreements. Some of our legislation dates back to the early 1900s and has become a barrier to improved care and innovation.


Nov 05, 2007
In answer to enquiries regarding health care privatization: Yes, the health regions are private companies and run like private companies. You will find the Minister of Health will avoid entering into any conversation regarding a ...
Dec 14, 2006
December 14, 2006. Conservatives Remain Silent on Wait Time Guarantee OTTAWA – The minority Conservative Government has shown no leadership on the issue of a national wait times guarantee, and no intention to ...
Jul 06, 2009
Alberta is setting the stage to introduce health coverage cuts , Alberta has artificially increased the health care costs of Alberta Health by building multi million dollar hospitals that remain vacant and by flipping the name of the ...
Mar 18, 2010
Dear Gene, Premier Stelmach, and Members of the Legislative Assembly, As a tax payer and a voter I wish to address Health Care Issues, have some questions I would like answered, some information and some opinions on ...



Feb 12, 2006
This exert from the Alberta Gazette outlines the changes made to the Alberta Health Care Act. This change is dramatic and was done in the Conservatives usual back handed; back room rules agenda. The necessary papers ...
Sep 01, 2009
Alberta Conservatives have declared their intention to change the Canada Health Act in order to de-list health services. Meanwhile they have legislation in place to allow US Health Care Companies to sell insurance in Alberta ...
Feb 16, 2006
The Conservative health privatization is in deep trouble. The public are now aware! Who would have guessed Harper would be champion of the "soft sell" with BS like the limited use like up grading hip replacement and ...
Dec 21, 2008
When Mr. Liepert cut the universal drug coverage for seniors he said “Money is not the object”. It is true; Alberta's money has never been the object of concern for this Government! They are driven wholly and totally by a narrow ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Canada Health Care- What are Legitimate Costs?

Iggy said he would Convene a First Ministers meet within 60 days of being elected.  The First Ministers is ruled by the 5 western and territorial leaders all Conservative.

I say no First Ministers meet until after provincial elections! See:PNWER
http://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2011/03/conservativerepublican-alliance-pnwer.html

Iggy is onto if not part of the Conservative scheme of privatization as was his sidekick Martin as shown in his last election!

The Canada Health Act does not allow US citizens to come to Canada for medical or surgical repair and Physicians in Canada so want that business. (Who can blame them).  Alberta is selling our medical services to the insurers as being better and cheaper than the US. No duplicity here.

American Physicians are looking to Canada's single pay system as being a  utopia.  Why would we trash our system?


If we come to a basic debate on health care it needs to be public with public access available to the costs in a uniform fashion.

First, rules have to be set down on what can be charged to health care in Canada!

Are junkets to Sweden okay to charge to health care?  Are 600.00 plate dinners for 40 people okay to be paid by health care?

Can a Government use health care money to build new hospitals (think Grande Prairie) and turn it over to a private company for 1 cent on a dollar of value and still leave the original cost attributed to health care?

Are Multi Million dollar contract pay outs to US management companies (Capital Health) allowed to be charged to health care?  For that matter, should the management company be a health care charge?  If so, why not all charges for it be in its own account so we can actually see what health care is costing us; exclude that amount when determining the actual costs.

Is multi million dollars terminations of health care officials a legitimate charge to health care where the Government has decided to change horses?

Alberta (and BC) are driving up their health care costs to get the highest possible charges in there to make their case for privatization easier.

This being the case our overhaul of what goes into Health Care charges should contain agreement for a audit over the past 4 years of health care and take out all those things not agreed to taken out of the costs.  Then we can see what our health care charges are.

Laws governing Blue Cross and other private health care providers are needed if we go down that street.

Providers should not be able to cut us off the plan when we hit a major cost. (This is the experience of Blue Cross and others in the US)

Health care providers should have to accept our medical coverage from employer funded health care.  (Now, Blue Cross will not accept your experience in a company funded blue cross program.  You have to start new with them; less coverage and more expensive, a rip off!

A system of charges, across the board has to be Governed.  As it is, the Physicians charge what they want; The Insurers pay what they want and, you are stuck for the difference with no recourse.  Remember, universal health care can mean universal nothing is covered to a level of opulence.  Think here of  your dental coverage.  Lose your employment and you and your family don't have any.  Seniors don't have any.

I don't trust either Harper or Ignatieff in a First Minister Meeting now; nothing until provincial elections are fought.

Our health care costs us 10.6% of the all encompassing GDP and the US system costs them close to 18% of their GDP and it is leaving 60 million Americans without any coverage and as the Republicans cut Medicaid down there many more millions will be at risk.

The World Health Organization places Canada at 30th in the world and the US at 37th there is room for improvement.  The World Health Organization also  says that costs are driven up dramatically when countries try to juggle multi payer systems.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Alberta wants a total US system installed before next election!

Stelmach's ire is in a different direction than ours.  He wants to get health care totally onto the US system before an election is called.

Indisputable facts:
Capital health Authority made a list of what is to be take off Alberta Health Care coverage. This was patterned after the Oregon non insured list but made even leaner and meaner.

Blue Cross has increased their presence in Alberta by more than doubling their staff.   We are now a virgin market for Health care insurance.

The Minister of Health recently told us that Stephen Duckett had other uses.

Stephen Duckett was accredited with installing US Health Care  Insurance Companies into Australia.  He left there before they could lynch him.

Australia tells us not to go down this road as once these same Health Care Insurance Companies are installed, you can't get rid of them because of the huge buy  backs involved.

The boomer crisis is BS!  

Most of the health care costs are directed to the young 18 to 40 years who go into hospital for the expensive operations and longer stays.  Most of these are  due to life style.

The Democrat health care reforms were killed in the US by the Health Insurance Industry who, have more money than the US Government!   They are hard at work in Canada all selling health insurance in Canada.

Alberta enacted legislation to allow these people to sell health insurance and they promptly opened up Canadian Health Insurance companies to look after the lucrative business.
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