Alberta Health Services to be restructured, premier says
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Wednesday announced numerous structural changes that will alter how health services are delivered to Albertans. The changes will dismantle the single-service provider model and spread the responsibilities of the province's health provider, Alberta Health Services (AHS), among a handful of new organizations.
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For the people complaining about wait times... I hope you realize this is all intentional. Make the public health sector worse and worse, then people will be more willing to accept private. You are being duped.
I'd go for Private. It works great in France and Germany. State still bears the cost but because it gets people on their feet much faster and reduces wait times all around for everything. No more restricting OR times for surgeons and anesthesiologists, no more salary caps, everyone benefits in both sectors.
@@whiskybrush3219but you won't get the european model. You'll get the U.S model.
@@whiskybrush3219 What you are saying makes no sense.
How can salaries go up, the government pays for it and the service is better?
Literally makes no sense at all.
@@whiskybrush3219what will happen is the majority of staff will rush to the private system, leaving even fewer professionals in the public one.
Precisely.
Seemed to me the biggest issue with healthcare in Canada and Alberta was lack of doctors and nurses, making it difficult to access a family doctor, and long wait times for patient care and procedures, especially in rural areas. It's not clear to me how restructuring AHS is going to help with those fundamental issues. For rationale they're giving generic corporate-speak about driving efficiencies and so on, but colour me skeptical that four big government agencies are going to be more efficient than one. More than likely they'll require even more bureaucracy and administration than the AHS, and probably cost more too.
Well sounds good to me. We will get a better system, if we make it better. So now we see if we can.
You’re absolutely right, this will do nothing. Albertans better wake up and soon because the Cons are going to dismantle their healthcare. Get ready for Huge insurance rates and a rise in bankruptcies. This is just the beginning of the conservative narrative.
Absolutely as the top of these "boards " will automatically want huge remunerations for their "expertise " as a starter .
@@annsumner8570I'm going to wait and see. But if it's successful then I'm all for it.
It won't make a difference. She can reward her most ardent supporters with high salary jobs. She will offload responsibility to the managers who will not have access to more medical staff. But hey, a COVID outbreak won't make anyone mask.
More excuses to deliberately under-fund.
same happening here in ontario.
cons want private healthcare.
Private healthcare is the way to go it seems people have a serious misconception of what forms private healthcare comes in everybody wants to jump on the “ oh we will have to pay just like the USA “ when it’s nothing like that for the public side of our healthcare if there was private hospitals and they had room for surgery you’d get sent there on your public healthcare you wouldn’t pay a dime. But if you had money and wanted to pay you could. It’s just a better system Sweden uses it and it’s law to have whatever surgery or procedure done within 3 months of your first visit to the doctor.
@klnrklnr4433 I used to think private health care was a bad thing, but when you look at the control, the government has tried to push on Canadians, I think it's the only way to go. The government will continue to try and control our personal health decisions as long as we let them. Socialism is one step from Communism.
After all, we do pay for our healthcare with tax dollars. Privately funded health care allows autonomy over where those dollars go.
@@shelby3347 They tell you it'll be like sweden, but it'll be whatever the rich people want. Jack those prices up to extract as much money out of you as possible. Why would a private company buy healthcare services if they didn't expect to be able to crank up prices?
@@shelby3347 Yeah....that's not quite how it works. Smith would rather just get rid of public healthcare and go with the US version, which will bankrupt a lot of people. No.....private healthcare basically takes healthcare from a right to a privilege.
I'm sure this will be just as successful as the Laboratory Services changes she first implemented!
At least she’s trying
Not a favor of her or UCP......but that wasn't actually her. Was Shandro and Kenny at the time. Might be fair to say the focus on that change was to line the pockets of Dynalife vs a focus on patient outcomes. And for sure - hopefully this won't be a repeat of that.
@@tamrahawkes3170she's trying to privatize.
@@russg4313it will be worse.
Albertans got the government they voted for. What a self-own.
Ikr. 😂
How long is the average wait time in Vancouver?
@Vaderoid: do you live in Alberta?
Great job Alberta
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
People need to STOP going to Emergency, Urgent Care and Primary Care because they need bandaids and sympathy! Also take responsibility for your health, start eating healthy, move your body, don’t smoke etc. These people are putting profound stress on an already overwhelmed healthcare system!
It's not overwhelmed though, if they didn't fire fk tons of ppl because they didn't get a shot we wouldn't have theese issues, it's a government manufactured problem
People go to the ER because they don't have a family Dr. But it's nice of you to blame the public, you could be in the Alberta government!
Ok, next time I break my leg, I won't go to the ER, where should I go?
The stress is directly the result of this cin administration. Talk to literally anybody working in the health care sector.,
@@bigmike6461You completely missed the point. They never said you shouldn't go to the ER for a serious reason like a broken leg. The problem is when people go to the ER for minor things that aren't emergencies.
"There's no evidence that 14 cigarettes / day is harmful," "the anti tobacco lobby does more harm than good"
- Danielle Smith
Regardless of what, this is your premier, you Albertan’s choice.
@@phlydaisy4473No... it's their premier. Justin Trudeau is Canada's Prime Minister.
Are these legitimate quotes?
And did you hear what health canada admitted with the vaccine? it is sickening
@jkirkpatrick3889 yes. Google them. She was a columnist/contributor to the Calgary Herald
AHS Has too much overhead high paid administrators, the money could be used for more doctors and Nurses. Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are goo additions for general care, they can do the majority of what clinics see and that gives more access to quality health care as well as frees up doctors for the harder cases.
@@coffeecake323 I was saying that it is already top heavy. Options to add more health care providers is to add Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants. Again, the Province, including when NDP was in charge, has not looked at all options or talked to those in the field, particularly in remote areas. AHS is bringing GPs from remote clinics, paying them 7 figure incomes at big city facilities and leaving clinics short. This proposal from Province may look good on paper, but will it put more money on the ground for working nurses and doctors, not paying them to be administrators and taking them out of the patient care stream, which is one issue.
I AGREE. TOO MANY CHIEFS , FEW LITTLE INDIANS. A RETIRED RN
I'm so tired of this old chestnut from conservatives! It is ironic that all these old people stubbornly vote conservative knowing they hate public health!
And now it will be more top heavy.
@@tigress63 I am just saying what a friend said of her personal doctor leaving family clinic and being hired by U of A at over 1 million a year. Maybe his position is not with AHS, but it was a loss. As per Danielle Smiths salary, to be honest for what that position deals with and the responsibilities, I am ok with that. Bit what about Nurses in administration positions, not in the field, making such high incomes and not being required to work overtime, or find child care because the staffing at hospital is short in ER? when those on the floor are mandated to work if no one else is available. One of my daughters is an RN and I know what they go through. Also, Alberta has highest paid physicians in Canada, on average, which is good, then why is it so hard to recruit them? There must be more to the story. AHS costs are high, our cost per capita is one of highest in Canada, yet services are not being provided. Something needs to change.
Are you kidding me ? ER wait time is 7-12 hours IF you actually need to be seen otherwise they make you wait for longer
Thanks for the reality check. I was about to move to Alberta. At Montreal, the last two times that I got my daughter to ER it was 8 hours waiting time.
@@hdf001just wait, this is her 1st step towards complete privatization.
Just copy Sweden for God's Sake! They solved all of the problems Canada is currently facing back in the 1990's and the reason Sweden is in the top 3 countries with Universal Health care of the 25 countries that have it and why Canada is in the bottom 5. Use Sweden's model since they have already worked out all the bugs in their system and they are more then willing to help Canada according to interviews.
So what is different ?
100% agree!
Yeah and Sweden has a 52.2% income tax rate, so if you make 100k in a year you only bring home 48k that year, no thanks. It's public service sectors that made me work cash only lmfao I ain't paying income tax to fund useless sht
@@think2146 Its a bit complex but I will try to explain. Back in the 90's they did two main things. First was a Patient Bill of Rights, and the Second was choices in Healthcare. The first Right for a Swede in the Medical Bill of Rights is Everyone is entitled to get any medical procedure done by 90 days max. Let that one sink in. Everything from small things to surgery must be administered within 90 days. So how do they pull this off?
This is where the structured systems come into play. Sweden does have high taxes but in Sweden the money you pay in medical taxes go into a personal medical fund and acts like universal medial insurance. You see in Canada, Hospitals get a lump sum of money to operate hospitals through the year. When you come in with a broken arm, it costs the hospital money to treat you so they are less likely to help you in order to save money and not be broke by the end of the year. In Sweden, the hospitals only get money for cover salaries and operations costs. When they treat someone, the hospital gets money from your personal medial account that they get to keep. So rather than a patient being a cost, they are not a costumer providing funds to the hospital. This means MRI machines are not rationed like in Canada but running 24/7 because they make the hospital money.
There are 3 tiers of hospitals. 1) Public funded to Public Services. Meaning your government medical account pays a public hospital. If the public hospital can;t provide you service by the 90 days you then get access to option 2) Public funded to Private Hospitals. There are private hospitals in Sweden that look like hotel rooms with cutting edge tech. In order to work for private hospital you MUST work for a public hospital for a few years first and then get recruited when an opening in the private sector opens up. You can also take your public insurance and take it overseas to get treatment if the service is not available in Sweden. Hence Universal Insurance.. The last tier is Private funding to Private Healthcare. That is basically paying out of your own pocket, which rarely anyone in Sweden does except the rich.
Basically this system provide fast high quality healthcare and open up options to patients to get the best healthcare anywhere in the world they can find it. That's why they are in the top 3 in access and quality among the 25 Universal Healthcare systems of the world.
@@bigbrisk8423 Taxes themselves are not evil. If 52% was actually managed properly and you saw a practical value in your day to day life as a result of that 52% then I doubt you would complain. Example. Let's say (in a fantasy world) that 52% meant great healthcare, safe streets, excellent fire services, great education, great utility services, etc. then it would be a fair trade since paying for all that privately would cost you far more than 52% and unknown quality. But there lies the problem. QUALITY of service for that 52%. Keep in mind Canadians are taxed 42%, yet look at the low quality we get for our taxes. That's why Sweden's model is so important. It shows how you can get QUALITY out of tax money and the proof is on their streets, healthcare, and services. The problem with Canada is its not performance driven at all. No competition. Unions with so much power to protect bad workers. Keep in mind, the reason I bring up Sweden is not because they are one of the best quality universal health care systems in the world but because in the 90's they had the except situation we are experiencing in Canada today. They completely turned around their system and the best part is they have years of trials and errors they have worked out of their system. If we copy them, it's basically turn key in quality of care, access, and the Swedish model actually SAVES money compared to the Canadian and even the US system.
I like the videos CBC picks and chooses to have comments open on.
Anything that can be or is critical of the Trudeau libs and their circus is always off limits to PRAVDA/CBC! Anyone else is game!
Ok and? You don't even have free speech in this country so what's your problem?
😂😂 100% @mrbrightside473
@@xToxicNinjax TIL free speach when people leave comment sections open...
Oh I dunno some stories just set people off and things get said that shouldn't be said. So if you don't like it go somewhere else and rant and rave there.
Welcome to pay as you go, just like the American system, Alberta. The Alberta government is working HARD at making healthcare is private, expensive and unattainable for normal people.👍
Privatization works. We already have it for some services.
@@lmtada😂❤😢😅
@@lmtada how well is it working in the USA? It actually feels right that Alberta would join the USA and take a step backwards.(or two)
@@hillbillydeluxe27 Hopefully, Albertabama will follow through on its Wexit threats. Then , it can be the Yank's they always wanted to be...
@@watsonroadster3707 lol…Americans don’t want them, either.
Divide and privatize.
Socialist Sponge.
Once again, I can't understand albertans who voted for this party AGAIN...
@@AwkwardPain never underestimate the conservatives willingness to vote against their own best interests
@@AwkwardPainBecause the alternative was Communism!
@@gerloyd6098 First, define communism. Then tell me what the plan that the NDP had that also fits into that...
Dismantled is a more apt word
Dang it! Why does Smith always look like she is out on an unescorted day pass?
She escaped 😅
Welcome to America; this province is what every republican dreams of.
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
That's... Supposed to be a bad thing? America is awesome. Canada and USA is like East and West Germany.
@@potatopotato8360what does that mean...
@@jrone380Capitolism versus socialism, watered down communism.
They have a decent Supreme Court that upholds their Constitution while our suspends it over the flu.
And we keep raising wimps, each generation more pussified than the next.
@@jrone380 One country is prosperous, free, and values individualism, the other is mediocre, low productivity, and unaffordable.
There are many foreign trained doctors in Alberta who are not practising because of so many requirements. Alberta could make use of these doctors by giving them training so that they can integrate in the Canadian medical system.
Conservatives would rather ruin the system
Or do what they did with tech, just reduce the requirements to be called a doctor.
Nonsense!
@@GuitarisforgrinsConservatives are literally fighting to remove all the liberal red tape to get these Doctors working. 🤦🏻
The chaos Premier is ripping apart Alberta's social contract.
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Socialism is one step from Communism.
I work for AHS and agree that a change is needed. We"ll see how this system works but it's not working currently for anyone
Nor does it work anywhere in Canada. Do you not remember Harper slashing nurse and teacher training to prevent growth of their union? I do. Hospital waits are everywhere. No doctors taking new patients anywhere.
@@bradcanning875 Thanks to the liberals and the NDP. Addicts are coming in to ER by the hundreds making people who have serious illnesses or injuries wait.
AND fracturing will make it even worse .
Albertans exclusively enjoyed the massive god gift fossil fuel deposit, making giant benefits out of it, and can’t even fund your healthcare system enough🤣
New sports arenas are a higher priority for Albertans
gotta make sure the foreign oil companies get their bonuses
More Health Boards could make political appointees $$$.
Thats part of the plan
Wow she is trying her best to destroy Alberta, first it was the pension now its health care, and now housing tax is going to sky rocket. What is she doing? How much is this plan going to cost tax payers?
Alberta has always had lower taxes than rest of country has. Oil boom paid for a lot of things that Albertans took for granted. A couple more % in tax revenue could help out a lot to replace revenue loss big oil provided before.
Alberta Health Services to be restructured - AGAIN!
As a retired Alberta physician I remember all the other restructurings over the past 40 years.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Queen Daniel wants Alberta to become MAGA Texas north. Private power grids. Private health care. Defund public schools. Don't listen to the words...just follow the $$$$$$$$$.
And that's a bad thing?? Our government up to now has done nothing to make me think otherwise.
@@gerloyd6098 Just look at the Texas power grid when it snowed, got cold and Ted Cruz bolted for the Caribbean. Look at the amount of people going bankrupt over medical bills where they nickle and dime you for an aspirin and the cup it comes in. Private healthcare means low income people and families can no longer access quality healthcare and turns it into a privilege, not a right. Boggles the mind how people want to pay insurance companies who just take your money and find ways to not help you when you have a serious medical condition.
Tucker Carlson will give her the "Best" advice.
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
and Alberta back slides, again.
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
Jealous? You should be, Alberta is awesome.
@@lornemyers6638 I worked there for a bit as a roughneck, no it isn't. it's flat and boring and gods the jokes about everyone dropping out of high school are only jokes if you've never been there.
It's the Albertabama way...Just Wexit already!!!
Smith is saying, "Now that I want to screw up the Canada Pension Plan in Alberta, I thought I would not start screwing up Alberta Health Services...."
The Premier seems like she wants to break many systems all at once and just see what happens.
Just like Ontario .
@auntysocialistthis debacle is going to cost hundreds of millions and the outcomes will be worse than what we have now.
Smith: AHS is too monolithic, so we'll put the entire thing under 1 person who doesn't know anything about health!
But I thought she fixed healthcare already?🤔
What does that even mean?
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
Yes what does that mean. Exactly. She just started as premier.
@@lmtada Didn't she already get rid of a bunch of personnel from AHS, thinking that would solve any issues? All this is is a means to start privatizing Alberta Healthcare. Can't do it all at once, so we'll break it into smaller chunks so people don't know what we're doing?
@@yxeaviationphotogAnything is better than so called free Healthcare. You a taker? I am a giver and getting tired of being outnumbered by takers.
Privatization here we come
That's the plan.
That's what I fear!
Alberta preparing to go solo out of Canada.You will need visa to go to Calgary.
many Canadians cant wait, less whining.
Canada is failing anyways!
Most of us want Albertabama to speed up the process. Hurry up and follow through on their Wexit threats.
I congratulate CBC on leaving the comments section open! They have been closed on the last 7 CBC videos I have watched. Hopefully this will continue.
They pick and choose which narratives you can comment on
Like fox News does, they close there comment section all the time
@@agentorange2560 danielle smith and tucker [covid] carlson are lovebugs
Give it a couple hours and a bit more discourse. It will be closed by the end of the day I bet. CBC does not like discourse based on every other video they post and close comments on.
It won't .
lol yes because Danielle Smith totally has a grasp on how to restructure a healthcare provider. My word. What is next, are we going to hire a dog walker to re-write our tax code?
@auntysocialist lol she has a team of lobbyists with special interests. Exactly ZERO experts on her staff.
@auntysocialist 'roll' of the people eh? Careful, your education level is showing. It is funny that you want to talk about conflicts of interest given that she (Smith) has already had an ethic violation. How many did Notley have? Oh right ZERO. Go sit down kid. Maybe read a book.
Our pensions and our healthcare are in mortal danger from greedy Cons.
3 hour wait, that’s all? Wow in some places in Ontario my son waited 7 hours
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
Alberta system not bad compared BC, Ontario, Quebec. Now it will be better.
It’s BS. My friend literally just waited 26 hours before she saw a doctor
My sister went to ER for actual life threatening emergency waited over 24 hours while she bled everywhere crying. 2014… you could get in within 2 hours at the busiest hospital in Calgary for a minor cut on your hand 😂 not anymore. Family doctors don’t exist anymore :(
It's a gross under exageration. I havent seen wait times under 6 hours in at least 2 years.
I thought Alberta had a simple system: You 'donate' to the Doctor's 'fund' and you get priority treatment. That's been my experience so far, both in BC and Alberta.
Don't forget Ontario where parts of the system are going private paid by taxpayers.
I had no problem finding a family doctor a couple of months ago, and 3 hour waits are normal for hospital visits everywhere, depending on the injury.
In Ontario it is closer to 12 to 15 hours.
Live in Alberta and haven't been able to get a primary care physician in 17 years. I'm still trying to get one.
I agree with the 3 hrs wait time is normal but how did you get a doctor. My primary doctor retired and in 3 yrs I haven’t found anyone who is taking new patients. Im in London, Ontario I was told in Strathroy they might be taking new patients. An hour outside the city
Supporters of the disfunctinal system are trolling. That's how they get a doctor and many thums up.
I walk in to my local clinic, smile at the receptionists, and I’m in to see my family doctor within 15 minutes usually without an appointment. They get me referrals to specialists all of the time within a short amount of time. Y’all are living in the wrong area of the province.
Just imagine a provincial government trying to actually help / support addicted people.
Won't be in Alberta 😂😂😂
With a 45% approval rating even most Albertans can't stand Smith❤😂
Most Albertans disagree with you😂❤
@auntysocialistIf you think BC is socialist, you have absolutely no clue what socialism is lol
God damn I hate Danielle Smith so much. I'm so disappointed that Albertans were suckered into voting for the UCP.
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
Many don’t realize how dire our healthcare system is! I almost died in May because of a long wait in Calgary and I ended up losing 127cm of small intestine! The Doctors and Nurses were amazing, but I never should have had to wait 10 hours for emergency surgery, or lost this much intestine! People are dying and how many more before this disaster gets resolved? Years, because there is not enough Doctors and Nurses! We had the best, now we have the worst healthcare and surgery wait times!
Went to emergency had sign ! Waiting time 12hrs ! Ridiculous ! Just went back home ! 🤨
Albertabama wanted low taxes and boot licked oil companies for lower royalties...You reap what you sow...
This woman is Koo Koo
Really how? By using common sense and logic? I can understand why some one who lacks these qualities would make such an assumption about Daniel Smith. Do your own research and stop drinking from the poisoned well of the CBC
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
This premiere is sitting down with Tucker Carlson. An American who twice said that American should invade Canada. That’s all I need to know about her.
A population that is living longer and are sicker, more obesity and diabetes etc.... We don't have enough manpower to take care of patients with all these chronic illnesses. In the London area they closed down the psychiatric hospitals and shut down Mental health floors... These are people with medical problems like any other medical condition. We also need more accountability? 3 hour wait time...not bad. Let's get more physicians, nurses and other health care through our education systems. this lack of personel to take care of patients is not going away so soon.
sorry, but for the past 20+ years I've seen nurses bunched up together yakking away while folks in need waited; the poor doctors dont seem to have the support they need while they have to quickly fly from patient to patient. I know there are good people and bad. and I apologize to those who are good in their job being so tainted by the bad, but this observation doesnt belong in busy healthcare settings while folks are waiting for triage/treatment. Ive held my tongue at those times, but I think that those healthcare professionals ought to practice a bit of self-discipline. I hear how long those shifts are sometimes, but perhaps shorter shifts with more rest between might help with awareness of time passing and lessen the urge to congregate and gossip.
Insurance co , don't want more doctors , If we have more doctors and staff prices may drop .
I agree there are people that don't pull their weight, no doubt about that. But the increase of population living longer with illness, there needs to be more physicians, nurses and other health professionals. 20-30 years ago, you wouldn't live long with CHF or COPD, now they go on forever requiring a lot of support...and rightly so. Over the last 30 years the life expectancy in Canada has risen almost 10 years. These people aren't healthier....they are sicker. Our physicians and nurses are also getting older and retiring...we need to bring more in through Education. We do need more family/general physicians to take care of patients outside of the emergency department. That is one reason why our ER's are so busy with non urgent patients. Lastly, family medicine shouldn't be rostering patients, but , should get paid through fee for service as it use to be. and increase the fee, so they can make a decent living and pay their support staff. Coming back to not pulling their weight...some will work the hours in their clinics and then there are the ones that do not. they get their stipend and only see so many patients per day and go work somewhere else...This is one reason why there is a long waiting period to see your family doctor.@@laszlozoltan5021
3 hour wait at the hospital? thats pretty damn good. Speaking from Manitoba.
Never happen under cons, perhaps after they privatize it. But that's only because no one can afford to see a doctor.
I go to a nurse practitioner. My appts are always on time. She is better than any doctor I have ever been to.
Did you know that WCB employees receive bonuses for denying workplace injury claims in Alberta? Talk about a conflict of interest!
Please restructure WCB while you are at it! Their well documented “culture of denial” is ruining workers lives, and causing major losses to Alberta’s labour force. I will not work for a company that uses WCB to protect themselves from lawsuits. I have never had a WCB claim accepted and my job made me permanently disabled without any compensation. I was put back to work the same day without any recovery.. I had to move to BC to find a diagnosis. I have been refusing to work as a red seal journeyman plumber and journeyman class b gasfitter, for the last four years. Until I see changes to WCB.
In 2017 changes were planned to end WCB’s “culture of denial”. These changes have still not occurred five years later…
No wonder why Canada is experiencing labour shortages. I won’t work under these horrible slave-like conditions..
ALBERTA NEEDS TO STOP NEGLECTING INJURED WORKERS!
1.5 to 3hr wait ?????
That’s it ?….
That would be a dream and a 1000% improvement in Ontario.
BC is at least 5-12 hours
I’m not a ucp fan but this is good. AHS IS horrible! They don’t have enough beds in the psych ward for all people
And that is a factor a lot of immigrants including California's that are leaving California because they can't afford to live in California failed to make is when they research the city they're moving into will the hospital accommodate a large amount of people when a disaster happens
It’s not that there isn’t enough good doctors, it’s that there isn’t enough good patients.
One of the best things a doctor said to explain their work is to “distract the patient long enough for the body to heal”, my interruption of that is we have too many patients expecting a quick fix to their problems-especially drug induced. Maybe the harm reduction approach of abstinence from drugs would fix the need of more psych beds. Just a thought.
so do I have to make an appointment in another province just to be seen in a free health care system that is working?
Well Money does have the power to make things work faster and on time but We don't have millionaires or billionaires living Canada in regular communities but behind gated areas but the average common individuals who work day to day living paycheck to the next and pay bills. We already have to pay higher prices for food and Gas etc.
If this goes through then there got to be a catch what do the people get in return? like No more paying taxes, mortgages, free gas in Alberta no more carbon tax, no taxes on owning a home. So if and when this sort of future mess that certainly turn Canadian lives upside down and adjusting to a new system will there be a ferengi toll just to enter a through the hospital door.
Hmmmm WTH the Alberta premier is doing is bonkers, vote her out and send her to the U.S. for the republican system she really loves and chooses the privatize platform over Canada's.
Alot of regular people gonna have to shell out their savings or next paycheck just to see a doctor or get the service of care and treatment plus pay for a room, pay a hefty bill before leaving receptionist desk. If the bill passes which i hope not the new health system will doc your payments from your job by taking money from your bank account. If this goes through then say good by to Emergency room care. You might as well wait in hell or stay home and hope its just a 24 hr flu. Or just drop dead in the waiting room while waiting 3 hours for treatment.
No more freebees for having a baby in Alberta might as well do home births instead in the wild.
Private treatment is in FACT "expensive"!!!! and will put you into way more debt like the U.S. might as well sign bankruptcy papers while at the hospital if surgery is needed plus pay for extra nurses and doctor(s) who is not on call to come to work to fix your aliments. wave bye to free clinics too, no more walk ins just appointments and possible fines for being late to see a NP or doctor. There will be new rules like the Hamburger laws to prevent you from suing Doctors if they screw up on a operation or cause you get to more ill, plus prevent you from getting prescription meds if you do not have the money.
Honestly it makes sense to have a separate institution or setup for the ongoing epidemic of mental health. Clearly what they have been doing all these years hasn’t been working at all. There’s droves of mentally ill homeless folks addicted to the worst drugs just to drown their pain and misery. These ppl are often invisible for the average citizen of Canada. 😢
Exactly, I am excited to rein in the boards and make them smaller and more effective or they are gone too.
Thing is, even if there is a separate division for mental health, if you don't have the doctors to meet demand, are you really that much more efficient? And not all mentally ill people are homeless or addicted to drugs....just want to point that out. Anyone with a mental illness, whether they are homeless or not, have been and continue to be invisible because Provinces and the Feds don't contribute nearly enough to treat even 1% of the population suffering from mental health issues.
We will need even more nut houses than jails given the mental health problems we have .
And the mentally ill voting UPC!
@@annsumner8570smaller?? You're gonna have 6 boards, all with overpaid executives who got the job for being friends with smith.
Danielle Smith and her goonies are not Doctors or Medical specials or medical scientists. They have Zero expertise in this area. The doctors and nurses and other experts have been saying for years that the solutions are to aggressively hire new doctors and nurses and provide the expert medical equipment and specialists in order to provide the excellent health care we need. She has steadfastly refused to hire anymore doctors or nurses or provide anymore necessary equipment. This plan of creating 3 or 4 separate boards will only create confusion and most likely a great deal of competition for the limited resources that are available and that the UCP refuses to provide to make the healthcare system work. I will start with a simple Question for you. Since when is a pharmacist a trained Physician? I for one would never go to a pharmacist for any problem I had. After all they are just well trained drug pushers.
Wait time for ER in London, Ontario now exceeds 11 hours. And the provincial government has no plans to fix it
Sounds like a local issue, Barrie Ontario has significantly shorter wait times
That's what you get when you elect a right wing government.
People: "Health care is a human right!"
Ford gov't: Hmmmmm ...
Tories and Doug Ford don’t believe onpublic health. So….they believe everything should be privatized - just like the US. Therefore, long wait times are proving they are right! Just think…privatization would solve all of this!
@@bobmcrae5939Was it great under the previous Liberals? Or are you another butthurt Liberal?
She simply doesn’t think! ie the patient with mental health issues may have physical problems as the cause of his depression. She doesn’t care to learn or even listen to professionals in the field or their clients. “ Just screw around with the format, shake it up and distract everyone. That’ll stop demands on the government do do something effective for a couple of years, so we can screw around with the real object of our desire...
Smith's approval rating has never been above 50% 😂❤
And neither Nutley! 😄
@@ThruTheMatrixso?
@@A.G.P.115 So NDP are garbage Liberal sellouts. Or recently flipflopped with Conservatives making it the party of Hypocrites.
3.7hr wait for bed....you are in heaven my 98yr old mother had to wait over 6hrs to get a hospital bed in southern Ontario!
my 80 yr old neighbour sat in Pissed Pants that were bloody for 18! Ontario
Just sad@@timothyj1966
Mental healrh needs to be managed as part of primary and continuing care. You can't segregate your brain from the other body parts. Now 4x more administrators- we are already overloaded with them.
More red tape. That will save money. Next will be multi tier private healthcare.
Getting into ANY hospital in Canada takes hours and good luck finding a family doctor
ANYWHERE in Canada.
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
Absolutely 4 million people in Ontario can't get a family doctor.
Wow. I have a family doctor I can walk to. My wife had an operation in a hospital. She waited two days and was out two days later.
@@Section5_CdnIntelServiceArent you special.
Yes, the system is crumbling but we the voters put these provincial leaders into power and we help them destroy our system. Good for us for being fools.
Noseworthy certainly does not work as a primary care doc in Alberta. AHS is a top heavy mess with too much power.
She fired the board and put a single guy in charge. Now she's hiring a bunch of managers and staff and telling you things will run with fewer tax dollars and more efficiently. 😂
@@gail9566 Something has to be done. It is not working as it is.
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!
Smith is such a bad politician her approval rating is absolutely horrible 😂😊
Nurses were calling in to 630 ched sometime in April saying AHS has a boat load of over paid managers. So many paper pushers in their. For all the damage those low life's caused during the plandemic at the very least should all be fired and some should be in prison. I like the idea of splitting things up so that no one clown has total power over the whole AHS.
Won’t do a damm thing. The problem is the shortage of doctors and nurses. . 3 out of 5 nurses are ready for retirement in the next 5 years. That’s where the problem lies. How do we get more young people to go into the medical field.
Exactly- the sheep of the last 3 years will never understand the real strategy being implemented here…. AHS over ruling the government and shutting down businesses under the singular authority of Hinshaw will never be repeated, and that is why it’s being split up. End of story. Couldn’t be happier this is happening!
They have been restructuring since 2005.
1 to 3.5h wait time is laughable…I waited 12 hours in the ER after a suspected heart attack and was not even “admitted” in that time. Eventually I left when I was informed the wait time would be 17 hours, and because I was not allowed fluids or my heart meds “until I would be seen by a doctor and have tests done”.
I waited over 8 hrs for a stroke
ya, the numbers these liars are quoting is total bullshit, its well over 12 hours in calgary and edmonton
This is why I work cash only and don't pay income tax, we live with a useless system. Why should I fund it.
Scary stuff. Pushed around by Take Back Alberta. Smith should never be Premier. She has no discernible skills but she's an ideologue. That's scary. Bulldoze the neighbourhood when only the sidewalks needed fixing.
Ms Smith. You’re awesome
If Alberta wants to improve healthcare they should close the walk in clinics, because the are sucking $$ and are completely useless, and open the Med. clinic with the labs , x-ray equipment etc. at the same location, who would do the real job, and not sending patients to ER as they do now. Also all the files should be shared over the system by the computers to avoid to start new patient files all the time, and the Blue Cross insurance should be send packing to the hell and taken over by the Government.
I wouldn't be surprised that it's on purpose to make the system look bad so they can sell it off.
My doctor's office is pretty effective at diagnosing minor ailments, monitoring, testing as necessary and referring when necessary. What more should they be doing? What exactly is 'sucking' the system?
@@shiningstar2903 Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
It would be much easier to just elect a competent premiere who is not a con
Imagine if bc or canada had a leader? Alberta is blessed to have Danielle Smith
Free health care gone guys.
Uhmmm health care was never free.
@@Tjd1982 yes, paid by tax dollars. You still pay same tax again and pay for healthcare on top now.
Not once did they mention about free health care gone. Did you even watch the video or even comprehend on what's happening? Probably not.
@@maninderjitsingh4919 is it a prediction or it is happening?
There is and always has been an illusion of free Healthcare. Healthcare is not free. We also have one of the worst rated Healthcare systems.
Lots of money being spent, lots of time being spent reorganizing AHS, lots of politics, no effect on overall efficiency on system!!!!! Like every province we need more DR’s and Nurse Practitioners, as well as Pharmacists that are not hesitant to actually use their prescribing rights! None of what Smith is doing is going to change that fundamentally!
What he is talking about blaming Alberta??? The same situation in every province! In Ontario as far as I remember we often wait in the ER for 1.5-3 hrs, and our physician is not so available. I rarely saw him actually. His assistant ( medical student or nurse assists the patients). Cardiologists are absolutely unavailable for new patients. If private doctors would practice I could apply for their service. But for what we will pay? No one doctor could treat any disease. They are useless unless you have an emergency situation.
Alberta is the big bad of Canada even though Quebec only focuses on their own needs but when Alberta does it, they are the worst. At least Smith is trying to change a failing system. Not sure if it will work but anyone who works in AB healthcare knows that the current trend is terrible
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
Ottawa ER wait times were 9 hours before covid. If anyone in my family had to go to the ER we would bring a backpack full of water and snacks because we knew we were going to be there all night. Wait times are terrible across Canada.
Did you get in oh and it is called triage and 9 hrs. is not true !
1 to 3 hour wait is way better than the 6 hours wait here!
Never happen.
OUr healthcare is collapsing.
It has been collapsed since government took control of it!
On purpose because of decades of bad decisions by people like her. All so someone like her can sell it off.
poilievre's evil stepsister is always threatening something.
Ok Turdo. 🤦🏻
Devil's in the details..
That's about what we've learned today.
I dont trust her with our health care system
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona,...Alberta.
SSDP
This guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Who is this guy?
CBC doesn't know nothing either, let alone know how to do journalism.
😂😂😂. There isn’t anything new about this.
Worth trying I guess but I imagine it can be a way to find how to "budget proportionally" and therefore find ways to make cuts. It also has the potential to create multiple useless jobs in management and administration and hence more corruption and waste of money on endless meetings and reports.
They still need to improve salaries and benefits to keep doctors and nurses here since it seems like we have a shortage.
Just a bunch of her friends are going to be the heads of these redundant groups... getting paid to watch the entire plan fail so they have to privatize more of it. The UCP just wants to privatize healthcare.
For me, I do not beleive more money is the anwser. If you are a doctor or nurse here, you only have the choice of one employer (the government). So if you dont like your company culture, structure, workplace, where can you go work? The options are really limited, thats why I think we cant retain nurses.
Same for doctors, they have to work within the structure set by the government for example a walk in clinic and how they get paid, they cant choose how they offer care, they just have to work within the structure of the government. I dont think it helps retain doctors
@@jb-vz4wb hmm that's a valid point too, I figured most were lured by the better rates in the states.
Still though we have to have some standardization right otherwise people only want to see the popular dr or the "alternative" dr etc. Really tough to make everyone happy
@@jb-vz4wb I think it had to do more with the UCP TELLING people where they had to work as doctors (including forcing people to remote areas where they did not already live)
And for the nurses it was probably more to do with the retroactive paying back of wages to the government... where they took back wages that the nurses earned during the pandemic.
How much would those factor in?
@auntysocialist😂
Seeking fame for the wrong reasons. What a mess!
The cbc ceo lives in New york
There is a problem with the system. The doctors and nurses that are on the floor know if the wheel keeps turning we loose the budget next year. So. Slow er down folks
Then we have the college of physicians and surgeons. They keep out people who are coming in qualified from other countries to make sure that only the ones who pay into this organization get work.
When you’re on a plane they don’t ask what nationality you are before asking for a doctor of the same nationality.
They simply ask for a doctor. So why are the standards different in the air than on the ground????
That’s deceptive language, she actually mean ‘privatization’, make no mistake. Instead of adequate funding, Alberta is planning to do away for the majority of Albertans a public health services.
Alberta will be the first independent state after collapse of what is called "canada". Alberta Republic
'Independent state' ? Only heard about state of Texas, never heard of an 'independent state'
Typical CBC bs
Try looking for a family doctor in any major Canadian city, and you won't find one that is taking new patients.
We applaud our Premier and will not fall for your twisting the truth
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
We want you to follow through on your Wexit threats. No one cares what 4.5 million Western whiners think...
Oh great, more overpaid positions at the top for all her grifters..err, friends
This guy Tom lives in a utopia in his hill top home of Mount Royal if I’m guessing. Guy is speaking in clear defence for his management pals who will be affected by a shake up
If you really want to wait to be seen in the ER, just come to BC and bring food for a 10hour wait!!!
Why is Alberta Health Services Hiring foreign nurses when there are Albertans who have become newly registered nurses who are unemployed and want to be part of AHS? These people are are already Albertans /Canadians!
Her 1st step in complete privatization of our healthcare, next is the schools.
I only wish 1.5-3hr wait, FFS here in Ontario its 8-12hr wait last time I went. I would love 1.5-3hr wait times. Plus she wants it to improve, Hell tell Doug Ford what your doing now, he could learn a lot!!.
Not really true what they said. Maybe 3 hrs to see initial nurse to get BW and IV or meds but it's more like 7-8 hrs to see ER doc for further assessment. In all maybe 10-15 hrs in ER total before admission or discharge. These pundits don't work in real healthcare settings
Canadian "health care"is really "sick care"there is no prevention but band aid and really bad at it!
I have an amazing plan to revolutionize our Healthcare system, but it actually requires two things: more personal physicians, and personal responsibility. Not sure most Canadians are prepared for the second one....
Well you can blame this plandemic for that!
The 2nd one is the only way we will save what is left of our health care system.
Wow genius you just solved it all on your own. So it costs money to train doctors and they are reimbursed from provincial system...so it's money. Otherwise go private like the US and pay what $500 for x-ray, etc.... Personal responsibility....like junk food, exercise, no alcohol, no drug addiction? Well why not get Smith to ban these in Alberta?
Pretty sure you can be personally responsible, exercise, eat right and still have a heart attack. One of my gym teachers back in high school...watched what he ate, worked out daily, fittest guy I knew.....and he had a heart attack while coaching a football game. People can be as responsible as they can, but that doesn't prevent stuff from happening to you.
Is that going to come with less taxes?or we have to pay the same taxes plus Healthcare?that's the question for a billion dollar😂
40 years of conservative rule in Alberta and Alberta has a problem with healthcare.
Not all change is bad. Healthcare is very corrupt and inefficient. Pretty sad to see.