Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Mar 2018
We need to have a 'difficult conversation' about Alberta's health-care costs
21 March 2018 - Spending has been soaring — particularly on our oldest patients — and at this rate, something's got to give.
If you talk with enough health-care thinkers about why Alberta has historically spent so much on health, you'll hear the same answer: We could afford it!
Whatever the rationale, we spent. And then we spent some more. More than just about every other place in Canada.
But now, Alberta is not as flush as it once was.
