Alberta health-care insiders go outside for personal care: Steward
Senior Alberta health-care official travelled to Mayo clinic for checkup and billed the province.
Alberta health-care insiders go outside for personal care: Steward
Senior Alberta health-care official travelled to Mayo clinic for checkup and billed the province.
This item has been kicking around AB news cycles for a while now – fairly indicative of the mindset of Redford big government elitism.
Missed the best part:
“Last year Weatherill resigned from the board of Alberta Health Services after it was revealed that Allaudin Merali, the chief financial officer under her watch at the Edmonton health region, billed $345,000 in expenses over three years. Expenses that included lavish dinners, expensive wine, and a phone for his Mercedes-Benz.”
So the erstwhile “CFO” bills out $345,000 in personal expenses…
Okay good, and how many MRIs does that cover while the waiting lists are on the order of 6 months or so?
Hypocrisy…I’m not half the man I used to be!
Try not to disgrace yourselves too much…
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Remember when PM Chrétien jumped the queue by going to the Mayo and even using a government jet to fly him back & forth.
Now he was a politician who really knew who to entitle himself to his entitlements.
Warren must be so proud.
AHS employees billed $100M expenses in past year. Really? Really!
Didn’t hear the health budget taking a haircut.
A good start is to implement Fed gov’t Treasury Board rules for allowable expenses for “every AHS employee”. Execs included. No exceptions.
How many AHS VP’s? 79!! I’d start hacking there. But then Redford hasn’t the nerve.
I miss Ralph…
Hey,if the Mayo clinic is good enough for Jean Chretien, it’s good enough for an Alberta HC bigshot.
This government is starting to look like it’s even more corrupt than our BC Liberal government!
Maybe Christy just didn’t try hard enough.
Whhaaaa!
This is a prime example of yet another serious problem that cannot be fixed by simply voting in someone else. The politicians entrusted with our well-being and healthcare systems are all self-interested, partisan hacks. Those who started with admirable intentions(I’m told they exist)soon become consumed by the political industry.
We are starved for any real and sincere leader, not a poll follower. I always believed Mr. Manning was the best PM we never had. After watching Harper morph the reform movement into his own unique twist on liberal arrogance, I now believe Manning would have become a party lapdog also. Provincial politics are just as hopelessly about the parties, not the taxpayers they abuse.
Back to health care. Across this country we can’t even start to debate solutions to the staggering waste and inefficiencies without some partisan idiots shutting down the conversation with pointless, ideological myths. “No two-tier healthcare” is mind-numbingly disingenuous yet always effective debate-killer when any novel idea is suggested.
As per self-entitled bureaucrats, they are virtually everywhere in government, aren’t they? They have thrived from coast to coast no matter the parties in power.
So what do we do now??????????? Many of our fellow Canadians are, at this very moment, suffering in medical waiting lines.
Or,like our weak sex-offender laws, do we do nothing about it then just whaaaaa indignantly whenever we hear of a horrible injustice?
I know many appreciate the entertainment value of that approach.
in related some animals are more equal than others . . . file
“Lawyer for Toronto terror accused jaser says client is in a state of shock and disbelief”
Much preferable than being in “a state of blow’d up real good” if those chuckleheads had been successful.
It’s not the use of the Mayo clinic that galls; it’s the province picking up the bill.
This is the least offensive problem with healthcare.
Here in the NWT we have more administrators than medical staff and both our politicians and government staff have medical benefit plans that exempt them from the system they provide.
It is ironic to have the people charged with organizing, operating and overseeing public spending on this system all being protected from the consequences of their ineptitude.
If every member of our medical staff were drug abusing embezzlers, they still could not steal as much money as our government spends overseeing and 2nd guessing them.
Much like government, which now costs us more than chaos.
update of AHS exec count;
148 – Directors
95 – V.P.’s (includes 1-VP/chief of staff/corporate secretary, 3 titles-in-one!)
SNORT
It will eventually collapse. It can’t help but do so. A roof without a stronger support , has no way but to fall inward. Marxists just will not see it. The only laws they acknowledge is there own. All else is fairy dust to them.Even the Laws of nature mean nothing. As global warming, ozone layer damage,with the many other scams have proven. Let alone believe in a God or a moral law. This bunch has no idea of entropy, or its consequences from business to death. This is why civilizations fall.Madmen begin to rule.
Stupid ones at that.
As the item points out, this story starts in 2006.
Since Redford is today celebrating her first year in office (2013 minus one year), I’m not sure how she would be responsible for that instance.
Of course, this abuse of taxpayer’s money has been going on for a long time now and that’s the real scandal.
“Since Redford is today celebrating her first year in office (2013 minus one year), I’m not sure how she would be responsible for that instance.”
Same trough; same pigs
Cabinet responsibility. She was a member of Stelmach’s government which left this rot rotting and she isn’t going to clean it out because she wants the support of others who let it rot. That’s how the system works. Or how it doesn’t work, one might say.
I’ve lived and worked in six provinces and a territory, and worked in the healthcare field in two provinces and a tour in Texas (hence the handle) and the one blatant thing that shows up time after time is that the system is more top heavy than Pamela Anderson (and a lot more fake).
Puddin’ & pie gives the numbers in Alberta, and that is after a lot of restructuring and I know that Nova Scotia has nine health districts for a population of just over a million, if that. The administration costs alone are enough to f*ck any budget planning. And please note that nobody in the ivory towers ever cuts their job.
In Canada, the government gives out the money and when it runs out then too bad, so sad Mr Jones, the budget for hip replacements has been spent. Maybe next year. In Nova Scotia they even stop all but urgent surgeries for spring breaks and some ERs for summer holidays.
The system is busted big time and it isn’t getting better. My parents in their 80s have a doctor who is only a few years younger. After 8 months here I have been only able to get a Licensed Nurse Practitioner. For what it’s worth mine is pretty good. If I get really sick a trip to the ER might get me a Doc as well as what everyone else in the waiting room. The only saving grace in all this is that if I come in with a heart attack I can have a shunt put in within hours and live to bitch another day. Anything less and it is hurry up and wait.
Under socialism, some are always more equal than others.