Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Health Shift

Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Health Shift

Operation Profit report argues Alberta’s surgery privatization initiative is starving the public system to prove an ideological point

Things are not going well in Alberta’s health system—especially when it comes to timely access to surgeries. But with the many spoilers of COVID-19, the “refocusing” of AHS into new agencies and now the procurement scandal that the Alberta NDP have been calling “CorruptCare,” diagnosing what exactly is going wrong isn’t easy. Health policy researcher Andrew Longhurst’s new report for the Parkland Institute, Operation Profit: Private Surgical Con…