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Originally Posted by Lchoy
Anyways, back to firefly's point, the problem with health regions before was that these changes could not occur without backlog and discussion with all the regions and their boards. (This section is my opinion, and in no ways reflects the GOA's point of view) Personally, I think as well, the Health Regions became too powerful. Calgary and Capital were spending as they pleased, or did things there own way. By being the 2 biggest regions financially, there was a growing divide of services compared to the rest of the Alberta. By centralizing, these changes could be pushed and hoping it would be better able to provide equal quality and coverage to all Albertans, not just to Edmonton and Calgary
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Except they went to the regional model years ago when they couldn't provide adequate services to the various parts of Alberta, major cities or otherwise. Now they are going back to a centralized model and history will repeat itself. Heck, they are now talking about implementing health "zones" mimicking the previous health regions. The whole thing is a complete joke, it's more about getting rid of Klein's friends then it is about health care.