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What in the actual ####....

As a supporter of public health care, Cheung said he objects to a policy that requires him to work in one of Alberta’s private, for-profit chartered surgical facilities, or CSFs.

• Anesthesiologists in Calgary are being scheduled by senior Alberta health managers, in response to government directives, to work in CSFs, sometimes against their will.
  
• Anesthesiologists, and in some cases surgeons, have been preferentially assigned to work in chartered surgical facilities over public hospitals, including in response to political influence exerted by CSF owners.
  
• The government has ignored repeated warnings, based on data, that the rapid expansion of surgeries in CSFs has been increasing wait times in public hospitals for critical surgeries including lung, prostate and colorectal cancer, and children’s organ transplants.
  
• The government refused to pause the expansion of private surgeries despite being shown evidence they were neither saving money nor significantly reducing wait times. Instead, the government continues to take money out of the public system to fund the expansion of private surgeries.

“So part of it is ideology, part of it is that no matter what you said to them, they didn’t believe it. They didn’t care.”

That is what the new review found. Low-acuity, high-volume day surgeries conducted in CSFs now make up more than 20 per cent of insured surgical procedures in Alberta, and up to 30 per cent in urban centres.

Meanwhile, wait times for nearly all critical cancer and other surgeries are far outside acceptable wait-time standards.

As the CSFs ramped up surgeries to meet contracted volumes, schedulers struggled to balance the necessity of staffing public hospitals for critical surgeries, including emergency trauma surgeries.

Manns confirmed this.

The schedulers “would try to allocate anesthesiology out to the CSFs — after they had filled the need for acute care,” he said.

But then the CSFs fell behind on their contractual surgery volumes.

“It came to a head where the CSFs complained,” the former senior AHS executive said.

“They complained to AHS, they complained to the department heads, and as they typically do, they complained directly to the government, and then the government put their thumb on AHS.”

Two former executives said the schedulers were directed by government officials to provide more resources to the CSFs.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/17/A...-Push-Failing/

The fear was always that medical professionals would abandon the public system leaving it short staffed, the reality is the government has strapped rockets to the process to make sure it happens. And oh look, just as everyone warned, necessary patient care would be de-prioritized for private clinic profits. ####ing shocking stuff.

Thanks for voting for this, because it's exactly what she said she'd do. And now she's doing it. Maybe you will give a #### when it affects your family, but probably not, because then you'd have to admit you are a simpleton who voted for this for decades.