Sat in on an interesting presentation a year or two ago by the then Minister of Health (IIRC Iris Evans).
At that time the goverment was actively pushing their more privatized model, which fell apart. The interesting part of the presentation was how Alberta ranked among a bunch of jurisdictions (Canada, US, Europe, ect) in terms of heath care spending vs. various measurements of health care performance.
Alberta was among the top spenders per capita, but had consistantly low results in the performance indicators. Apparently we're not getting a very good "bang for our buck".
When current spending levels and the aging demographics were compared, it looked like our system will be pretty much unsustainable in the near future and subject to some pretty significant cutbacks.
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