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[u/JadeddMillennial]

Healthcare in every province will be a problem for the foreseeable future.

[u/megselvogjeg → u/JadeddMillennial]

And its only going to get worse with this week's announcement.

[u/NByz]

We dont know. The government has politely asked the news cycle and political discourse to focus on a silly independence movement for a year and a half, rather than a critique of its actions and policies.

[u/TheLinesOfReason]

I personally have received the same shit tier of service here that I used to receive in BC. It was only worse when I lived in a rural part of Alberta but that's because there were very few doctors there.

[u/stealthylizard]

Health care costs increase. Voters vote against tax increases then complain about health care crumbling. Then complain harder when it's dire that taxes increase to pay for the increased costs of health care.

[u/squeasy_2202]

if everyone chips in and the money is used prudently then no one should have to pay $30k personally nor wait exorbitant time. alas the conservatives have been profitizing our healthcare and this fundamental canadian value is compromised.

[u/squeasy_2202 → u/[deleted]]

call it what it is: profitized.

[u/Critical_Cat_8162]

UCP is deliberately destroying Alberta's health care system so that people will have to pay.

[u/SenorEquilibrado → u/Critical_Cat_8162]

This is the answer: the UCP is effectively waging a war on Health Care, to go along with its war on Education and its war on Canada itself.

Morons continue to reliably vote for this.

[u/onewaycheckvalve]

Flew to China in September to get my knee fixed. Whole thing done from MRIs to specialist consult to procedure in under 4.5 hours.

Peking University Hospital in Shenzhen, Sports Medicine.

Once I saw the health care system in China, hard to look at the Canadian one seriously.

[u/WinterDustDevil → u/onewaycheckvalve]

When I lived in Thailand I had my right hip replaced. MRI on Wed, check into hospital Sun morning, operation done Mon evening.

[u/Charming_Shallot_239]

Well, I had to wait about 14 months after a referral. I was mobile, but in about 6/10 pain. Took months off of work, and then got my date.

The Doc was 100% wonderful. I took my 3 months rehab time off work and returned. Life changing.

Now Im 4 months away form my other hip, same doc.

[u/JohnBoWestCanada]

It's rough. Emerg waits in Ed and Calgary are long, and accessing specialists is also an enormously long wait.

The UCP also doesn't believe in public healthcare and is doing nothing to help it, in an attempt to promote a private health insurance model. But rather than targeting certain surgeries for specialists while strengthening public healthcare, the UCP is trying to have a public model and a private one running at the same time, which could split the AB healthcare workforce, resulting in two bad systems we pay twice for. Lol.

So maybe your aunt can handle one large $30,000 surgery, but can she handle more expensive procedures on her own? And if she's old, good luck getting private insurance that isn't just going to screw her over.

So short-term it's as bad here as anywhere else, but will probably get a lot worse here in the medium term for everyone except multimillionaires. Assuming the UCP gets re-elected, which they probably will.

[u/baddaywithacamera]

My MIL is rural. Took her five years to get the first bad knee replaced (covid drew it out). Took another 1.5 years to get second one done. They waited so long she became crippled and the replacements only fixed the pain, they did not do them to the point to restore mobility. She is now wheelchair bound. She was walking with a cane when first put on the list. AHS left her crippled by taking so long. If she had had money she'd still be walkling.

This province sucks.

[u/Csense4ever]

You live in BC and you’re asking if it’s in shambles in Alberta? I have patients who have waited 8 months for mammograms in BC…. I can’t imagine wait times for hip replacements are much better. Also, private services and surgeries basically made their start in Vancouver…. So asking if it’s in shambles in Alberta? Look around OP

[u/21blarghjumps]

I can't speak to what it's like in rural BC, but the healthcare I've had in the Lower Mainland was noticeably better than in Alberta.

[u/Inside_Check_1654]

I got diagnosed with hip osteoarthritis on both sides in Aug 2023, bilateral hip replacement in Nov 2025. It was a wait, but the clinic was full of people who looked worse off than me every time I was there. I couldn’t put my socks on and was in a fair bit of pain. The surgery gave me my life back and I’m grateful. I suppose I could bitch about the wait, but I’m not going to.

[u/Saisinko]

Moved from BC to AB about 5 months ago.

Haven't dabbled in the health care portion, but dental is about 20% higher in Alberta on average.

[u/reditsdead]

Immigration overload

[u/yycmoose]

Healthcare in Canada is not very good right now. We’ve had so much immigration and the funding per capita hasn’t kept up. Our healthcare and education systems are crumbling and it’s only going to get worse.

I’ve personally had to use private healthcare twice this year to the extent of about 40,000, it’s nots not money I had to spare, to get the treatments I needed.

[u/Active-Safety-9516 → u/yycmoose]

I think you miss spelled aging as immigration. The healthcare costs for baby boomers is soaring as the number of young, working people is diminishing. Sloppy immigration policies are a problem, but immigration itself is going to be needed to maintain a tax base and professionals to support those parents and grandparents of ours. Acute care and longterm care, you know the expensive ones, primarily occupied by older white folks