The problems with Alberta's decision to dismantle AHS
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The Alberta government is dismantling its provincial health-care delivery organization, AHS, which will change the structure and decision-making for the entire health system in the province. Dr. James Talbot, former Alberta chief medical officer of health, tells CBC News that it seems like Alberta Health Services is being blamed for decisions made by the government.
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The problem is that there is too much money in management, too few frontline workers, and lack of support for frontline staff (including physicians).
Nope just too many incompetent politicians with agendas not relating to the wellbeing of citizens.
Smith seems to be replacing centralized with decentralized management. In other words, more managers.
@@josephsmith594
Isn't too many cooks in the kitchen a good thing?
@@raymondsmith6870 It seems counterintuitive but our healthcare system is such a complete disaster that I’m withholding judgment. At least she’s trying
@@josephsmith594
It is not a complete disaster. Our politicians are and her solutions are plain bad. Don't forget the proposal she sent to Premier Kenney to privatize all the hospitals which he threw in the garbage.
Nice to see some hardball academic with health care knowledge and experience lay it out so clearly.
He is a marxist playing politics to scare people. You are gullible.
He said nothing of substance. Just criticism of the government. What solutions did he present and what problems did he highlight?
The Ivermectin crowd are going to reorganize health care..........
No horse worms there...
Absolutely correct assessment. This is a step backwards to a silo approach to health care
Moo.
You're out of your mind
James Talbot's a l i b left flunky from the NDP government
@@glennbeadshaw727 A professor at U of Alberta School of Public Health.
Wow, so many healthcare experts spouting off here yet want to retain the status quo, big dollars for less results. Brilliant. You have nothing of value to offer, again.
You get the government you deserve.
At least half of Albertan voters just got over blaming Notley for the decline in the global price of oil during her term, and before, and that personal insult to themselves, and now they can enjoy the slide towards the private health care model that is so successful in the US (NOT).
Why is religious dogma directing policy in Alberta ?
Look southward.
That’s really it. They voted for a party solely against progress (to keep the asphalt & heavy oil industries taxpayer subsidized); and they got more 1980s “Golden Showers” policies for their troubles.
Some private clinics tax payer funded that is not private healthcare
@@andrewryba7864 what you’re talking about is publicly funded private healthcare, which has been proven to be more expensive for lower quality service.
private healthcare is tremendously successful in all scandinavian countries. universal healthcare in ontario for example is coming to an slow end as it is unsustainable. this was revealed in the liberal drummond report. alberta has what is canada's most successful - not perfect, but most successful health model.
Looks to be a Cycle, Centralize and Decentralize then back to Centralize.
Objective of UCP is to create a worse system to come with the potion pill which is Total Privatization, where the cost goes out of control to the people of Alberta but not to the Government in the short term. In the Long Term Albertans will be paying for it.
They already pay for it. There is no cost to the government. Everything the government gives out is through directly taxing you or taxing you through inflation (expanding the money supply).
It's like people don't understand that their rising cost of living is directly because of the government response to covid. They actually think the healthcare was free because they didn't see a bill for it.
Alberta's already better than most of Canada. Not sure how decentralizing and making specific leaders responsible for better outcomes related to that smaller department is a bad thing. Smaller department means simpler metrics for success and clearer view of which bureaucrats perform and which do not.
My comment was aimed at the poster not at You Nero
the UCF work for the foreign investors/shareholders 5720 albertans died due to the hoax lolol without the need for a world war
in ww1, 6170 albertans died germans paid a price for each of those deaths, but no foreigner will ever pay a price for the 5720.
America is Alberta's model. God help Albertans.
Premier is just rearranging the furniture 😅
More likely just going around the room farting on every seat cushion.
This move does allow smith to say we did somryhing then blame federal goverment
The politics of grievance has surely reached Canada, imported from the GOP and those who influence US politics.
UCP shame on you .
Smith is a danger to Alberta.
The cons have no clue on how to do any better.
Nor Liberals or Democrats.
They not taking out what's there that works first@@JohnnyTightlips2007
The UCP's party goal is to privatize Alberta's healthcare. The idea of disintegrating the AHS isn't to make it better, I would be willing to bet that the UCP doesn't know what the outcome of doing this will be.
The goal of doing this is to inject inefficiencies into Alberta healthcare to worsen it to a point that the public will accept private health services as a solution to the problems in Alberta's healthcare system This was what they were thinking when they created the AHS super board to begin with.
AHS was starting to find their footing, so the UCP had to dismantle it to keep everything aligned to what they want to do.
That's ridiculous
What a ridicukous post. There is NO UCP goal to privatize healthcare. More lies from the NDP.
Manufacturing consent.
Couldn’t agree more!
Bingo! That is exactly what they’re doing. In the process they are going to harm Albertans particularly rural Albertans.
By dismantling AHS and creating silos for different areas of healthcare it means coordination between the different systems will no longer have been at the local level and will be done in Edmonton. I mean, for someone living in High River or Pincher Creek. Do they really want a bureaucrat in Edmonton making decisions about their access to healthcare? This is going to make access to healthcare slower, more bureaucratic, and overall the healthcare system will be much more expensive. This is why that central healthcare system administration was taken apart and replace with regional health authorities years ago. AHS was the next iteration to try to provide more efficiency but without centralizing everything.
Free education for Canadian citizens only to become doctor and nurses until the system catches up. Put money where it solves the problem, not deflect it.
In case you haven’t noticed. Nothing is free. The 58 percent in tax you pay on ever dollar you earn proves that.
This is actually a good idea. Also if the money is spent in Alberta, they have to sign a contract to practice in Alberta for say 10 years. It'll be a win for the province and a win for Canada.
Are the new doctors are willing to work for free for a few years after receiving an education paid by others.
" Put money where it solves the problem, not deflect it. "
What do you know of neo-liberalism?
- Brought to us by Economist Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan
Alberta
There are a lot of professional health administrators / part-time golfers - read HMO's - Health Maintenance Organizations waiting to fill the role of doling out certain health services (based on Dr.'s best recommendations) for a management fee / cut.
It is why the US system is among the most expensive healthcare services, per capita, on the planet.
@@CBultmann the point is to plant trees so the next generation has shade. Not force them to take responsibility for the tax cuts of the present.
We gutted education and healthcare to subsidize the coal/oil/gas industries to the tune of ~$30Billion a year in Western Canada. Their *after tax* subsidies went up with inflation every year; while doctors, nurses, and teachers were forced to do more with less money.
Healthcare needs to stop being a "Provincial Issue". We need to enshrine our rights to the necessities of life in the constitution.
It is absurd we keep allowing governments to try to privatize us like the US.
Good idea. Let’s Justin and his corrupt gang handle it. Not!
Health care was a federal responsibility. Conservative downloaded it with reduced funding onto the provisional governments.
It’s absurd to allow the corrupt thieves that are the Federal Liberals to control health care.
@eletakelley7188 I feel as though both Cons and Libs contributed to defunding it. Started with Mulroney's austerity policies, and continued on. Same with housing, and we're starting to reap the consequences of that.
@@MerrySnow-o6n”Justin” is past his expiration date. You might want to put yourself and your family first instead of making this a referendum on him.
The UCP is always coming up with innovative new ways to waste money.
That would be Nutley and the NDP
@Michael-to8qd which pipe line was that
It's pretty easy to privatize healthcare if you break it down into smaller parts first. Next will be to privatize helping the addicted and then the elderly.
Nice that you can quote word for word a loser who offered no ideas or solutions.
There is no plan to privatize healthcare. It is aganst the law in Canada and would result in loss of healthcare funding by the feds. Poor excuse to defend the current system that allows people to suffer for years waiting for surgery while millions are wasted on hiring more bureaucrats.
Smith has already made improvements in the system and looks like she has a plan to improve it even more. Factless criticism by some prof (an NDP backer) with no constructive solutions to offer is typical.
@Michael-to8qd around the same time that Smith was trying to convince the public that smoking isn't harmful and that an Alberta pension plan is a good idea 😂😂😂
That always has been mostly private, nice try though
I am from Quebec and thought it was just us.... I feel better!!! Go figure!
The aging population of baby boomers and silent generation is causing some strain. When Canadian healthcare started in the 1960's they were young back then and paying for relatively few elderly.
Get ready for higher costs, and poorer services.
But they get to at least own the libs, right?
Well I am an Albertan, and obviously the current system is rubbish for the money we pour into to it.
I have had to deal with the system as it is, multiple times in 2023, due to aging parents. Something needs to be done. Simply pouring more money into the same system has not worked at all.
We have way too many people making too much money, supervising too few people. Why does the head of AHS earn a salary 3x that of the Premier?
I am going to wait for the details and the actual implementation, before I form an opinion. Something needs to be done.
Found the conservative shill.
You’re going to wait for it to get rolled out before forming an opinion? This isn’t something that gets rolled back, you know.
Nobody cares what CBS has to say about anything anymore
Absolutely brilliant Redneck logic ! In case you are not aware CBS is American ! Prime example of home skulin !
CBC... You probably get most of your news Online or from American media.
News from Mother tucker Carlson.
He spoke so well.
Alberta does not idenfy with the Canadian character of sharing.
When is the protest...shes insane
poilievre's evil stepsister always up to no good and bullying someone.
Lol... very creative trolling! Well done...
There is always a problem with Alberta
Ottawa would say "hold my beer" but they never get their hands dirty.
@rgen28, you got that wrong buddy, it’s you clowns in Ontario/Quebec 😢.
Ours stats are looking better than yours. Watch & learn.
@Michael-to8qd You of course are referring to Quebec and Ontario? The elitists reside in Ontario.
It's gonna get worse with her in charge
One way to re-work the system is to stop having health care workers formed in Europe and the U.S drive taxis and work in the Canadian healthcare system.
And how many US trained doctors do you know or know off that can not get a job as a doctor in Alberta?
@@freddexta3363 what relevance would it bring for them to personally know me ? Nepotism isn't the answer.
US trained doctors have it a little easier, but European trained doctors face a number of barriers. They come in as high skilled workers but are pushed in low paying unskilled jobs.
@@HepCatJackIn our small town in Southern Alberta we have one Iraqi doctor, one from Iran, one female doctor from South Africa and one from Brazil. In fact we don't have any Canadian or US doctors. None of them had much trouble finding a job in Alberta, maybe other provinces are different?
@@freddexta3363 all of the provinces are different they each have different rules that they have to follow.
I also know that during COVID Alberta was overwhelmed and many of its patients were treated in Quebec.
@@HepCatJack And thank goodness covid is now history, never heard of any Alberta residents being treated in Quebec which seemed to have had it's own difficulties so that seems a bit of a stretch.
Wow. Outstanding doctor. Well explained. The media needs to listen more to the doctors and less the government.
He offered no ideas or solutions, he fear mongered and bellyached. We as Albertans need to start making monthly payments into Alberta Health again. That will help.
@@lylarose2696 he highlighted that the government, you know, the ones who get to make real decisions for our healthcare system, did not even address the real issues, like staffing. Why does this trigger you?
@@thrillhouse7867 so what was his suggestion? Just add more staff? Yeah ok, very insightful there lol!
@albundy9706 better ways to incentivize workers to stay or move here would be good. They didn't even discuss it
Doctors will not allow LPN's or RN's to take some of the workload because they are a protected industry. Conflict of interest? Yes. Any new ideas from this quack? No.
Wow , tells it like it is ! When will Albertans see the error of their ways and stop voting for the Conservative Party !
💯💯💯
Try thinking for yourself instead of falling for the lies from every marxist professor presented. You will notice there is no one else to counter this guy's opinion. Other doctors agree with Smith. Where do you think Smith got these ideas from?
This is the unintended trickle-down / blowback from Preston Manning's great project. Still pushing money grubbing policy aimed at the corporate elite and donor class, and major shareholders, while progressive policies such as a National Daycare Program actually speak to the needs of a clear majority of Canadians. And to the great benefit of all the women who'd like to get back into the workforce after having a family - importantly, in a timely manner, staying up to date in their chosen fields, vs. the alternative put forwards by the social conservatives. Oh, ya, family values.
Sorry boys, that ship has sailed.
When we want to be a 'have not' basket case with awful public services just like other provinces who vote Liberal and NDP, I suppose. Nothing like leeching off the wealth of others while doing SFA yourself.
Shuffling does nothing. What the man said is correct....nationwide I'm fact.
Smith does NOT have a clue. She needs to listen to experts like this man.
Frankly it’s time for the federal and provincial governments to work together on this. The entire nation’s healthcare system is a disaster from coast to coast.
ottawa needs to stay out of province politics.
@@annsumner8570 Why?
In my opinion this is further proof! Proof in my opinion ucp has no money and is failing provincially Premier smiths own comments that she has to save alberta Healthcare which shouldn’t need saving plus needing our canada pension plan fund money! This is my personal view on the matter!
The government does not want to better the health care system t
I hope all of the UCP voters in rural Alberta are happy. This plan means that healthcare services in remote and rural areas will now be directed out of Edmonton. I’m sure that’s what everyone and small town Southern Alberta really wants is to have Edmonton deciding and directing how healthcare is provided for them. It means that coordination at the local level for primary care, like your family doctor, won’t be seamless with long-term care or acute care or mental health. This will delay services and people will fall for the cracks. It will hurt everyone, but rural residents will be hurt the most.
Remains to be seen.
Healthcare has always been Edmonton and Calgary Centric. There was the best support for frontline mental health staff and mental health when there were regions and mental health boards. That was the last time child psychiatrists regularly attended rural mental health clinics.
Now, any money that gets dedicated to “children’s mental health” never sees the frontline. In fact the frontline experiences position cutbacks, cutbacks to services, and budget cutbacks while management continues to grow bigger and bigger. So much less efficient as management argues with one another about how frontline should do the job. It’s so ridiculous it is laughable. Meanwhile kids are actually getting service from private agency or from businesses funding non profits to provide our healthcare.
This “expert” is wrong. Under the centralized system where AHS ran everything there was gross mismanagement. By decentralizing the system into 4 independent bodies, mismanagement can be isolated and eliminated much easier. The system as it was, was a failure. I fully support the restructuring. This approach wasn’t designed in government offices. Smith has explained that it was designed through engagement with frontline staff. We got into this mess by allowing a bloated AHS management structure to make decisions, all the while, the frontline knew the solutions but were being ignored. This will prove itself over time to be an effective solution. I completely disagree with the guest and believe Alberta is on the right track.
I agree. The system as it is, is sorely lacking for the money spent. I am at the point, that if there aren't bones poking through my skin, I am not going to ER.
@Michael-to8qdNice try beta
In 1983 I had to go to the states for surgery. There was not a surgeon in Canada who could preform my life saving surgeries. We lost our land and house because Alberta would not help. We are going to be doomed.
I am so sorry. That's not right. If there wasn't a surgeon who could do it here, Alberta should have paid for it to be done in the US. They used to do that.
@@deborahcavel-greant6155 agreed. Cleveland Clinic was the only place that had a surgeon who could do surgery on such a tiny infant. Ronald McDonald house put my mom up while I was in hospital. My dad had to stay home to work. If people want privatized healthcare, they should move to where it is!
ETA: I’ve now as an adult had to declare bankruptcy due to the government only approving 15 weeks of “sick leave” when I was only supposed to be off work for 6weeks, and that 1 surgery turned into having 2 more over the period of 3 years. When I had to leave my job (I was the main money earner for that business) it went under and I lost my benefits because of this.
No one in all of Canada are happy with health care. Danielle Smith is the only one that is doing anything. This man is an arsenal off shite!
@Michael-to8qd CPP is invested in rentals with renters who can't pay and are not. 8n Panama mines that have the Country in sorry desperate protests as Trudeau participates in raping their land leaving Indiginiouse lovers and the practices being used are poisoning families. Also it's invested in Google advertising while Bill C-18 screws small media channels including the Indiginiouse, Master Card, we gave them $50. Million, I could continue or you could get educated.
When QANON and the FREEDUMB truckers influence Danielle Smith,
anything is possible and it will be all a joke.
Drunk on fossil fuel dollars.
If only the profits from the show didn't all head south . . .
I might agree if it was supposed to be funny from the start. Such influences affecting a premier's judgments are more disturbing than anything. Alberta could pay dearly for Smith's rash decisions.
Why would they do this to Albertians. In my opinion, it's a bad thing to do to Alberta's median income families and seniors. In my opinion, the ucp must have no money if they can't afford our medical and take our cpp money.
And the proposed alberta replacement pension is if you look at the numbers put out is over 1000 dollars a year less than federal cpp.
You have an unbiased source for that?
Quebec keeps all the money they get from selling power to the USA and they have there own Pension Plan. Alberta needs to behave like Quebec and stop behaving like a door mat.
*eyes roll so far back in my head I see the goblin running my body like a puppet*
“Yeah no, I can’t believe this 💩 either”
Ya I really trust the UCP with health care and pensions. 😂 😂 😂
The new organization and plan is to throw a private health care! Take out the burocracia from Alberta Health Services! We need more people in the hospitals and clinics than the hundreds of assistances of the assistances in the offices sending all of them the same E- mails!! Prioritize cases!! Surgeries! Mental Health professionals!! When the politicians put their hands in This issues is not for good decisions!
Alberta has the best healthcare I’ve seen compared to NB and NS. 6 year in NB and still can’t get a family doctor.
12 years for me here in NB. Ridiculous
There are shortages most everywhere, not just in Canada.
@@GarrFagen-zc3em shortages everywhere with public healthcare. Go to US you'll get in next day with $$ or insurance. (I'm canadian and work in public health and against private healthcare). Just stating facts. AUS seems to be doing well with public and private but haven't done much research
There is too much scam in our health care system, I get pressured sometimes to do unecessary tasks which even my doctor was shocked at, there should be a solution to this.
Boomers retired and the lack of leadership was filled by people unprepared for it, across all sectors in Canada.
A very interesting discussion.
One sided as usual.
You can always count on CBC to deliver the "news"
The current system works for no one, but be damned to anyone trying to Change it.
Only because it has been mismanaged like everything else in Alberta for decades under conservative management. Talk about crazy, doing the same thing over and over again.
@@pamelawilson4954 again, I refer to the previous statement .
The issues are the people running it.
There is only one type of universal health care system that actually works. That is a single public buyer and both public and private suppliers. In everything else when there is a shortage we make more. Somehow doctors are so special we can only import a very limited supply of them from South Africa. Let's make more.
The UCP will turn on Daniel Smith just like her predecessors.
Cons are best at blame but have no solution but to destroy
Two oldest professions.
Rooster or the egg?
This guy offered no solutions and did nothing but complain. He’s definitely a liberal, so how do you square that circle?
W O W ! People of Alberta: your premier DOESN’T want the following: no Carbon Tax or climate control measures. This with hundreds of fires that never went out even over the winter. And she asked for help from - wait for it - the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT !!!
Then she wants to start her own Pension Plan - just for you! Well - actually, she wants the power to borrow against it. Gee - that might affect your final payout because it’s not fully funded. And finally - no provincial health service? I wonder how that’s going to work out for you all??? Good Luck, Albertans!
Somebody has to adjust health I'm 9 years no doctor yet refugees are assigned one
So Dr. Talbot tell us what are your unbiased thoughts on AB's decision to dismantle AHS
"The service from ABHS has been outstanding."
Thanks cbc...
I just waited 9 hours in a emergency waiting room, I don't care what anybody say.. anything is gonna be better
Ding, ding, ding! You win 20 hours in a waiting room, and crippling medical debt. ...You did say anything after all.
I’m sorry to say, but 9 hours is actually pretty good. In Ontario urgent patients wait at least 8 hours in the ER, it’s much more common to be 10 to 12 hours or more. If you’re waiting to be admitted to a bed, it’s often at least 24 hours.
What the UCP is proposing will not improve the wait times in emergency. It will make it worse. Because the people going into ER often wouldn’t need to go if they had access to a primary care provider. The proposed changes will not address the primary care shortage. The reason why there’s a backlog in the ER is the volume, but also a lack of available acute care beds, and that is in large part due to a lack of long-term care beds. This proposed changes will make the transfer between acute care and long-term care much slower. It will also not address the shortage of long-term care beds.
I understand the frustration! I refuse to go to the ER because waiting there will cause more harm than just trying to figure it out on my own. The only way I will end up in the ER if I’m taking there by ambulance and I’m unconscious. BUT just anything is not going to be better. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but things can be much much worse.
I'm have had better and faster health care in the 3rd world countries then in this country, I agree with publicly funded healthcare, I disagree with the goverment being in charge of the administration and delivery of such.
I trust Danielle Smith and I'm willing to take the risk.
I'm pretty sure Tucker Carlson will give Alberta good AHS advice during his question period when in Calgary, January, '24.
I mean, DS invited him.
(Next, the My Pillow Guy, Trump, Putin, Pat King, and Quanon guru ivermectin groupies.)
Don't forget! - there's the Queen of Canada, what's her name, encamped next door as well. Maybe DS and the UCP team can make a little room in the budget for another *qualified Health Policy Advisor, and proven anti-tax warrior, someone not afraid to make the hard calls. Another maverick that Queen.
Thanks to the people who vote UCP.
again..... fired gov official and the CBC reporting
6:51
If you make it hard to become a physician, it’s a deterrent to enter the profession. Ontario wants to mandate family medicine residency to 3yrs vs current 2 years. Who th wants that???
I make note that in the flow chart of responsibility
that there are 3 "control" points; the minister of health, the minister of mental health and addiction,
and a new "integration council".
these 3 institutions will control the way healthcare is allotted...and be run I am sure by political appointees,
rather than by health professionals, because that is the way these things are done, is it not...
the above institutions will be in charge of 4 different "care" organizations who are stuck in the middle of,
and answerable to the ministries and the integration council.
never an enviable position, being the middle of a government sandwich.
the members of this too, will be political appointees, for the above reason.
all in all, this looks like a way to siphon off yet more money from a healthcare system in desperate need
of funding, to pay what will probably be hefty salaries of the political appointees of these new creations.
savings? not.
pork barrel? for sure.
further erosion of the quality of healthcare for the average Albertan?
goes without saying...
Lmao!! Yeah ok, how much does any one of the many MANY useless administrative jobs pay currently? Lol
rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic..............(?)
Maybe defunding the CBC and splitting up the money between all of the provinces can be used for health services.
There's some truth to that but consider;
Nobody does propaganda better than CBC and I feel for all those employees who may not be capable of doing an *honest* days work!
This segment is clearly an opinion piece. If you have a different opinion, feel free to share with supporting evidence.
@@DeepsongProductions
Deepsong has obviously never heard of FOX.
Fox is so unbiased in their ''news" that they've been successfully sued for libel, to the tune of $787 million US, most recently, among other findings.
Thanks for playing.
All the money right-wing interests spend on disinformation, media puppets, bots, and trolls on social media would go much farther.
That would allow for about a 0.5% increase in health care spending
Might as well turn your local library into condos to solve the housing crisis lol
There are no problems. DS pulls both the ideas and facts to support them out of some hole.
I just about barfed.
There are NO problems with the system in Alberta?????!!!!! You obviously don't libe here, or never use it. It is so poor for the money spent, it needs a big change.
CBC is the Canadian leader in Propaganda 😊
Nobody in the world does propaganda better... they truly are "experts!"
@@DeepsongProductions
Geewhitakers Deepsong, you know how silly that sounds, right?
"Nobody in the world does propaganda better. . . ."
@@GarrFagen-zc3em
It sounds silly to you?
I thought bots didn't have feelings... just a tenuous grip on reality, lol
I'm 100% with Danielle Smith!
Great, a politician who knows nothing about AHS and her dumb followers telling everyone how great their changes are. I FEEL SO REASSURED about the state of our healthcare system.
@@sparkee666
Why not, Sparkee...
... we've got state media that doesn't know anything about news and a PM that doesn't know anything about integrity...
@@DeepsongProductions This is what I meant by dumb followers. The PM's integrity doesn't matter because he has no say over the state of Alberta's healthcare, and despite a video playing Smith's exact words and the interviewing of a medical professional from Alberta they are still pushing some unknown government agenda.
I got a suggestion for you, try not to drift off topic you might make more sense.
Thanks for the reminder of why I don't bother to listen to the cbc😂
Well you must have listened or else you wouldn't have known it was a reminder?! Or did you draw a conclusion without even listening to the issue? You don't seem very intelligent.
@@tinsley999 Do you feel better now that you've insulted my intelligence?
It's people like this that are the problem.
Great job Premier, we support this move to integrate healthcare. It has been a mess now for many, many years.
It’s not integrated healthcare! She’s using the word integrated, but she’s describing is disintegrated. It’s separating the different systems at the local level and requiring everything to go through Edmonton for coordination. That’s totally inefficient, and it’s going to cost a whole lot more because it’s going to require bureaucrats in Edmonton who will be deciding healthcare for rural Albertans.
@@carlyar5281 Your bias is disturbing. She's getting rid of those bureaucrats. It's about time that we stop doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. The majority of Albertans applaud her good sense and efforts.
Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Let’s try a new approach.
Choose healthy behaviours people, and reduce the load on the health system.
I haven’t seen any government fix healthcare in the last 25 years so I guess someone’s trying. Our present system gets exponentially worse so if her idea fails it probably won’t be any worse.
The infrastructure is overwhelmed among other issues... that's not something "health care" is capable of fixing
The Canadian population is getting older, with less babies being born. That’s a major reason you see the federal government encouraging immigration. Canada needs young people.
@@aquaticborealis4877
Nice strawmanning... well done!
@@DeepsongProductions It’s a legitimate explanation for problems with funding healthcare and pension. You need a large young workforce. Immigration is the best way to accomplish this right now.
@@aquaticborealis4877
That's a fallacy... they get old too and they bring their "old" extended family members who are eligible for full benefits though have never contributed to the system...
Why is all the infrastructure being overwhelmed then? ... not just healthcare.
Why is housing unaffordable, contributing to a vast homelessness problem
Why do many of them want to leave the country then?
And why after all this and much more are the policies being ramped up?
Who really benefits from these policies?
'The Problems With CBC Propaganda'
As per usual.
You probably get most of your news Online or from American media.
@@sparkee666 - LoL! Uhm... no. I have a functioning brain.
u can enjoy your low gross wages as u r not entitled to dividends.
@@MikeyCanuck123 Sorry, you used the term propaganda incorrectly when referring to this report, and those are usually the places that erroneously use the term propaganda when it's not.
@@sparkee666- Sorry, you have fallen for the indoctrination.
Backwards! SMiths solution is just another problem. Been there done that then back again, learn from history not repeat it to make another mistake.
Lol. This string is full of NDPers. No facts… but loads of propaganda. Get over it. If you love failed NDP/ liberal governance please do yourselves a favor and leave Alberta. We’re heading for Strong and Free…..and you wouldn’t like that…. Would you….
CBC isn't even trying to be unbiased anymore. Why not a panel with a spokesperson for the changes and another with a position against the changes. Let the viewers decide, CBC.
What is the other view? Daniel Smith did her press conference and announced the plan. This interviewer is analyzing the proposal.
@@carlyar5281 The other view would be a government spokesperson or the current Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Mark Joffe.
@@nerofiddles8798 Like Carlyar said Smith already outlined her plan--this is the other view. Did you want Dr. Joffe to come on and just reiterate what Smith already said or was he supposed to have a different view from Smith?
@@tinsley999 This piece is opinion after a factual policy announcement; both opinions for and against the policy should be represented, but the CBC chooses only negative.
If this fellow is such an expert why isn’t our system first class instead of the train wreck it is. Give Smith a chance it can’t get worse. My opinion is the asylum in being run by the inmates.
All I hear from our media is nothing but fear mongering regarding any decision Smith ponders. It's a bit much
Most things need de-centralization these days, to help week out the corruption syphening off massive dollars and leaving sick people without care.
Nonsense.
But you have to love your solution to a non-problem - get a bunch of corporations involved . . . LOL !
How could it hurt to try? Keeping an elderly couple in the hospital at $2000 a day for one year, because the extend care facility of their choice is not available is robbing the tax pool; and an act of nepotism too no doubt.
That’s one side of the story, why not hear from the other side CBC?
What other side? The government has put for the proposal and this is an analysis of it.
Defund the cbc ctv Trudeau Singh now
Not gonna happen, sorry.
U can watch state media in other countries, RT International, CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat did u know poverty allieviation completed in 🇨🇳
Seperatist wench
It is up to Alberta to do what it wants. Not our business 🍎🍎🍎
Assisting care …😂
It is easy to be a critic, and they are hot off the mark. Give the government a chance to make a change and it just may make things better. At least they are trying.
Did you watch the video? The professor interviewed explains that this has been done before. What Danielle is proposing is the inefficient system that existed before regional health authorities. Which being proposed is not an improvement it’s regression.
I can't remember when cbc did a piece on ALBERTA that put us in a positive light , its always with the negative BS. Give DANIELLE SMITH some positivity for a change!
Have her do 1 thing for the poor and hungry!
Blame Smith for not doing anything positive.
Great, another opinion from a marxist university expert. There are many physicians who do not agree on several issues. His comments are negative and include nothing that would change the status quo.
Smith has been working on solutions for healthcare since she was in the Wildrose.
The socialist expert above does not acknowledge the huge waste & inefficiencies in this bloated bureaucracy that was determined to be up to $1.9 billion by AHS a few years ago.
Smith has already improved several key area issues like red alerts for ambulances, opening up the many rural ORs and increasing surgeries to make the wait lists smaller.
The NDP simply throws more money at the system which results in more bloated bureaucracy at a higher cost with no results.
Smith is bringing accountability back to the system and allowing decisions to be made locally, not out of some centralized system.
This guy has no credibility.
....Smith did ... while still in wild rose... What a joke😂😂
Jordan Peterson is that you ?
No?
Then define "marxist university expert", Ken
As soon as you said Marxist, I knew you were either a troll, or have a tenuous grip on reality.
The Progressive Conservatives appointed a Marxist to be chief medical officer of Alberta, eh?
*You* have no credibility.
This list of partisan talking points and ideological sniping is worthless.
@@GarrFagen-zc3em
Now you're getting more creative, lol
I knew you could do better!
Health Canada during the 2020 -2022 flu season showed it's true colors , and it was not for Canadians' benefit , everyone saw that. Mandate mania , suspension of the charter of rights , wishy washy science , loss of credibility , tin-pot dictator edicts, that's why Alberta is implementing anti-fragile actions from lessons learnt . I wonder if Ottawa will do the same ? Nah they're too arrogant , corrupted , entitled and conveniently forget that Canada is a democracy where the people decide and the Gov. implements their wishes .
yawn
Democracy doesn't exist in reality, Chris... it's purely an academic notion weaponized to pacify the public
State funded propaganda
Well at least Danielle Smith is trying to do something with the health care system cause the government doesn’t
She is the government!
The Circus & Baloney Corporation is at it again be the mouth piece for the Ottawa Liberals. 😂
Why not do an honest segment on why the infrastructure is being overwhelmed instead of distracting people with theatrical strawman performances
Because all the whiney cons would, as usual, complain that the CBC wastes so much money on Journalism, or something. Look in the mirror for the answer.
@GarrFagen-zc3em
Your comment is incoherent
Did you watch the video? The professor explains why the hospitals are overwhelmed, and what the solution is. But what is being done is going to make things worse.
@@carlyar5281
I heard him acknowledge the problem and then deflect blame for it without actually addressing the core issues of why it's happening...
Anything conservative is wrong. Everything social progressive is good. That is the CBC. Everything that comes out of the CBC is predictable and the same. Have you ever heard a single voice on the CBC that is pro-life? Exactly. That says it all.
Sheldon doesn’t believe in bodily autonomy, that says it all.
All things conservative ARE wrong. Will never understand how blind people who vote conservative are. Conservative governments do not want you to have any rights, they just want you to give them power so they can line their pockets, look at good ol Doug Ford, making himself a millionaire by stealing from the people of Ontario.
CBC isn't progressive they are a relatively neutral with a pro-market bias. If anything they are liberal, and anyone who watches the CBC would know that. You probably get most of your news Online or from American media.
That issue has been resolved and there's nothing you can do about it--get over it;. BTW you are anti-women, not pro-life
@@sparkee666
Lol...
James Talbot actually believe covid was real LOL
When did they make that decision.
C'mon CBC, be professional.
Join the club BC exactly the same…..but we have a free health care which the rest of the world pines for
Why cant we attract nurses and doctors? Perhaps ask them why they leave to work in the US? Taxes, taxes, taxes.
What is sad is that Alberta has to find its own path to prosper. Do a little reading and you will find at least 1/3 of your income tax goes towards “free healthcare “
It's not a third, but it's still cheaper than comparable health coverage in the US.
Healthcare was never "free". Paying for it collectively through taxes is much more efficient than individually out of pocket or through private insurance. Look at the United States: the most expensive health care system in ths world, yet inaccessible and unaffordable to a huge segment of its population.
And 1/3 is less than americans pay, so what's your point, exactly?
- That a privatized health care system costs more than the a publicly delivered one?
You nailed it "guestuser".
@@heronimousbrapson863 Except then you let people who have never put a cent into it access and make Canadians wait a year to get surgery because government always skims services. Canadians are too dependent on pretend convenience.
@@JohnnyTightlips2007 Canadians take care of other Canadians. You sound like a typical American. Canada's health care is ranked way above the US.
fact is current system is extremely top heavy - Smith is simply trying to move resources to where it's needed, at the front line - AHS has been in a state of decline for a long time with a major reduction in available services - perhaps throwing stones at the idea would be more appropriate if it fails....
This will make it more bureaucratic, and will increase delays for accessing care. Everything’s going have to go to a Edmonton now because local ordination will be cut off and coordination is going to require going through Edmonton. It’s going to be slower, cost more, and require more people working in offices in Edmonton. Those bureaucrats in Edmonton will be deciding what healthcare people in rural Alberta can access.
If you watch the video, you will see that the professor explain some of the issues that AHS has and points out solutions to those issues.
Furthermore was being proposed was done before! It’s not new. It’s going back to a bloated bureaucratic and less efficient system that was replaced by regional health authorities.
How did China allieviate poverty? Trained & hired 450K+ Nurses-Doctors-Engineers. BRI Forum - templates many countries using CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat, Reporterfy, Cyrus Janssen
China alleviated poverty by creating special economic zones where capital could be employed with low-to-slave labour costs, no safety standards or human rights standards - in an effort to maximize profits by offshoring.
Eventually the wealth generated by these efforts accumulated in their society and lifted so many out of poverty and woe created by socialism.