Meet the new central planner, same as the old central planner. If even Danielle Smith cannot challenge the ludicrous premise behind single payer health care, then “reform” just means shuffling the waiting lists around.
Smith’s United Conservative Party government is expected in the spring sitting to begin passing laws to make good on her plan to dismantle Alberta Health Services, the centralized body that oversees health delivery on everything from acute care to community care.
AHS is to be replaced by four agencies, while being reduced to the role of service provider in acute care.
If one government agency is the problem, four more are the solution?
Centralization of government is a disaster. It absolutely breeds inefficiency and waste.
I worked for a large company which was essentially a crown corporation by another name that was highly centralized. It underwent “business transformation” which tore out centralization. The result was a MUCH quicker responding company with MUCH lower costs. And I mean MUCH quicker and MUCH lower cost.
Divide and conquer?
Reshuffling the deck chairs?
This would work if they fired everyone from the AHS, and then never hired any of them ever again
nuremburg comes to mind?…..hmmmm
Often large hospitals in big cities are quite competitive with one another. Perhaps these should all be separate organisations. This might motivate them to perform better. Having said that, the German system is the best of a bad bunch. Anyone got a better system?
Make them separate organizations receiving no block funding, just fees for services. Then patients would make them money, not cost them money. They could ask, “what waiting lines?”
As they system fails they have no choice but to plow through as many patients as possible to keep the lights on..
The Canadian health care system has more of a “they got their claws in me feel” than anything resembling value for our money.. Blood test, inconclusive.. Scan, inconclusive..
Paying to do what should have been done right the first time over and over again.. I’m not impressed AND IF I WAS AN AMERICAN I would be furious forking over 600 bucks for we need to do it again.. Canada who cares its free money..
“When you walk in the door of a hospital your viewed as a cost…not a customer!”
Ralph Klein
That says it all.
So why can’t the payment model for hospitals be changed to be a per patient payment?
Am I missing something?
To me, making hospitals run on a per patient basis would clear out the bloat in a hurry and still keep it publicly funded