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Originally Posted by belsarius
I don't know if its the case than no one wants to hear it.. I think it is more the gigantic expense it would take to fix the systemic issues, that no one wants to take it on. We have a system that instead of having synergies, are a piecemeal of add-ons Frankenstein together.
You go into a hospital, and you can walk down three halls and feel like you are in 3 different decades. We went to go get some prenatal testing done at Lois Hole, and after checking in at the first desk, we had to check in again at the next desk because "the systems don't talk to each other". Like this is seriously 2022 with the largest organization in Alberta and the systems can't even communicate?
This isn't an easy fix, this isn't a cheap fix. But the real fix needed will take a decade or more and probably a lot more borrowing than any party is willing to admit to run a platform on. The reality is you can either pay more money yearly and keep the inefficient system in place, or spend a ####-tonne of money and political capital now for fixes that many Albertans won't even see.
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I disagree. What we have is a crisis care system, not a health system. Everything is done at crisis levels, which means it all costs much more than it should. Easy fixes that can happen over short time periods would be things like increasing community and senior care. People who don't need to be in hospitals clog beds, with downstream effects all the way to paramedics and firefighters, just because there is no space for an elderly person to go. This is pretty well known, and has been for at least a decade. This will free up healthcare space and relieve pressure, reducing overtime. Yes, it will cost money(and the usual fools will scream bloody murder at the spending) but it will benefit the people needing out of hospital care(so we will see it ourselves) and reduced workloads and increased access to the ER is a benefit most Albertans will use at some point.
This isn't a "fix everything" solution, but it provides breathing room to really see where the issues are.