Tone-deaf politicians ignore the realities of health care
SUSAN MARTINUK: Canada’s health-care system continues to implode and fail patients at a catastrophic level. But you wouldn't know by listening to politicians
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Pandemic exposes flaws in our health-care system
PAZ GOMEZ: Competition and entrepreneurship allow medicare to budget wisely and patients to get the attention they deserve
Worse birth outcomes, higher pregnancy risk in poorest rural regions
HEALTH: Alberta researchers identify gradients of risk for preterm births, small and large size at birth, smoking and drug use by mothers
Alberta should seek more autonomy in health care
JAKE FUSS and BACCHUS BARUA: Welfare reform in the 1990s provides a starting point for reforming health care today (FREE membership content)
Alberta’s vaping bill fails to protect children, youth
JULIET GUICHON: The industry will now be popping champagne: no Alberta nicotine cap, no flavour ban
Where are health-care users in Alberta doctors’ contract dispute?
CHARLIE FISCHER and JUDY BIRDSELL: The health-care system in theory exists for the benefit of Albertans. We pay the bills, yet we’re not at the table
Prevention cuts demand on the health system
HERB EMERY: Increased spending has entrenched an inefficient system that has inflated the cost of getting the same outcomes. It’s time for change (FREE membership content)
Alberta should look abroad, and next door, for health care solutions
Spending continues to rise but Albertans have diminished access to care and face above-average wait times (FREE)
