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Add your voice – Friends of Medicare

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Alberta has passed Bill 11, which allows for a two-tier healthcare system to exist. The result will see people with the necessary finances paying to jump the healthcare queue while those without such monetary resources waiting longer for their medical care.

With this reality taking shape in Alberta, the potential is that other provinces might follow suit.  To prevent this from happening, please consider sending this letter to Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel asking her to enforce the Canada Health Act.

Add Your Voice

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“Bill 11 opens the door to two-tier, Americanized health care in Canada. We urgently need action from the Federal Government to safeguard our public health care and protect patients by speaking out against the Alberta government’s Bill 11 and enforcing the Canada Health Act.”  Click here to add your voice.

Why do Childhood Vaccine Recommendations Differ Across Canada?

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Heather Hazzan, SELF Magazine.

“In Canada, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) makes vaccine recommendations in Canada — but it’s the provincial and territorial health authorities who decide whether to follow them…” 

Click here to read more.

Alberta’s “seamless patient experience?”

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“When systems aren’t integrated, complications occur. Balls get dropped. People are harmed. ”
If you are unable to access the article below, click here.

Healthcare Systems Impact Patient Outcomes?

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In the video below, Dr. Anderson explores how healthcare system issues can impact patient outcomes.

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There are many things contributing to the high mortality and morbidity of patients lately. Logistics is huge. When we have no ambulances and no ability to transfer, patients die. Patients end up, waiting due to minimal trucks. We use RCMP to transfer patients long distances. Patients wait longer for care due to wait times and transfers that are unnecessarily long. The stress and the system goes up because everybody is concerned about the patient and the stresses are causing even staff to treat each other differently. #emergency #healthcanada #trauma #traumahealing

♬ original sound – Dr. Jennifer Anderson MD



MIA: COVID19 Vaccine

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If you have not had the opportunity to read the opinion piece that Dr. Parks highlights above, you can do so here.

Measles Vaccine- Why Bother?

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Click here to read the article.

More Measle Hotspots

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Here is the link to the article in the Edmonton Journal.

How Are Things Going?

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The X post below sums up how things are going in Alberta Health Services. Here is where you can meet the full article.