Across Canada, Healthcare systems are collapsing…and I believe that this is for a few main reasons.
We have a population of people more reliant on pharmaceutical health than healthy lifestyles;
We have a majority of the population who now have damaged immune systems due to becoming lab rats in the worlds largest medical experiment through COVID Vaccines;
We’ve added a massive amount of population to the Healthcare system through mass and unsustainable immigration;
Healthcare is the Largest Budget Item for all provinces and seeing the massive strain on the system through the above stated, are forcing the system to bust at the seams. In addition to these…Healthcare has become a highly political arena, where Unions work with Left Leaning political parties and advocacy becomes more important than the care they’re intended to provide.
I’d started to drill into some of these advocacy programs and it’s too large to even throw together in a single post - I’d have to probably write a short book just to get it all together and this rabbit hole goes deep.
Rather than try to summarize all of that here, what I can show is the gaming of the system used by some. Take this registered nurse as an example:
Who made almost 2 Million Dollars for 5 years of service in Alberta, through AHS, with their highest year - 2022, making over half a million dollars with Salary and Benefits.
Of course, this case is exceptional, but from what I’ve heard, gaming the system by part-time workers to make large sums of money through shift swapping and overtime, aren’t uncommon.
From COVID and even prior, Albertans have come to appreciate that AHS is working more to support AHS than is the patients in their care and when Premier Smith took over, she’d started to make some moves.
Exiting from WEF affiliation and association;
Firing CMOH - Deena Hinshaw;
Firing the board of the province's health authority;
Fired off some warning shots to all employees, stating that if they didn’t have time in front of patients, there’d be some changes coming;
Investigations into the Pandemic Protocols used by AHS…
But all of these combined, never really seemed to add up to much and with AHS Management being Anti-UCP, they’d seemed bound and determined to completely buck against change and work against the UCP Government.
One play, where AHS teamed with the NDP was most apparent was after the last Provincial Election - Smith and the UCP keeping government in the province, but losing some seats - was to hire back Deena Hinshaw. They were so confident that the NDP would take back the province, they’d rehired the former CMOH, albeit in a different role, to thumb their nose at the UCP and ALL ALBERTANS!
This giant tug-of-war has obviously lent itself to the issues we’re seeing and has left a lot of us wondering, what can be done.
In a July Townhall, What Matters to You? - with Premier Smith, Lougheed CA President, Darrell Komick, held out both of his hands and asked…why can’t the province open up another healthcare entity - showing an empty right hand and then let AHS know that this is the one they’ll be supporting, forcing what would be left in the AHS Left Hand to have to transition over.
The idea seems simple enough…but, given the magnitude of the situation, this would be a very complicated, time consuming and have a lot of potential stumbling blocks along the way…
Flash forward a month in the townhalls and while this exact thing isn’t happening, Premier Smith has introduced a similar idea in order to reclaim hospitals from AHS.
From the Rocky Mountain Outlook reporting on the Drayton Valley UCP Townhall event, Premier Smith introduced a plan to remove AHS as the operator of some provincial hospitals and turn these facilities over to other already existing administrators like Covenant Health - the provincial Catholic Healthcare Provider.
KABOOM!
The Alberta government is currently setting up a structure where the government retains ownership of facilities and leases them to AHS and is “prepared to also take away their authority to operate hospitals as well,” Smith said.
“Because if our operator isn't performing the services we need them to we're going to take (the hospital) back,” Smith said.
“The next phase is to see how many of those hospitals that AHS currently operates that we can retake ownership over. We can't do it for all of them.”
Smith said this strategy will improve the delivery of health care and help eliminate service disruptions in rural hospitals by introducing two incentives into the existing system — competition and fear.
“When you're dealing with a monopoly, and they believe that they can deliver any type of care, and there are no consequences, they’re going to continue to deliver bad service. And competition is one option. That's why we're offering charter surgical centres and why we're offering Covenant,” Smith said.
Now…of course this too will be complicated and time consuming…and of course this will meet with HUGE pushback from AHS management and teams…but given the fact that they’re the ones who have created conditions prime for a collapse and given that Covenant has seemingly implemented more streamlined and effective services, this is the next best thing over completely shattering AHS and rebuilding it from ground up.
There will hopefully be some sort of extensive planning that we will get the 3000 foot view of…but this is Massive in addressing one of the largest issues that Healthcare in Alberta faces and the largest steps that any province will have taken to right the wrongs of a completely tattered system that’s plaguing all healthcare providers in all provinces from Coast to Coast to Coast.
Big win for Smith and the UCP…and while you will read legacy news talk about how this will destroy things…all you need do is look at the comments from those who oppose to realize why this is what absolutely needs to happen.
One more in the win column!
Great job, Premier Smith.
Great job, UCP.
The best way to gauge whether or not you're headed in the right direction is by the reaction of the socialist Dippers. When they are in a panic, regurgitating all their usual buzzwords in a mix of panic and false righteousness ( "losing access to reproductive healthcare and MAIDS"..... " another layer of instability" ) you know you're on the right path. The day to worry is when they agree with you.
Facing the Facts of the True Extent of the Corruption at the AHS
There is an evasiveness going on in this discussion which Yakk Stack and the provincial government must address one way or another. There is an elephant in the room which we would all be well advised to notice.
Dr. William Makis, a gifted oncologist and long time whistle blower on the AHS, has been speaking with increasing urgency lately. It may have something to do with the fact the AHS sent the provincial police to his home lately. For some time now Dr. Makis has been documenting and outlining the magnitude of the monumental crime spree that has been going on inside and around the AHS.
Dr. Makis alleges that the AHS crime spree involves huge amounts of theft at all levels of the health care leviathan, but especially within its upper echelons. To exemplify the problem at AHS by pointing to a ripoff by a registered nurse of a mere half million dollars, does not do justice to the scale of the larceny Dr. Makis outlines.
As it is, however, the Alberta government seems not to want to investigate Dr. Makis's very serious allegations. What are we to make of the fact that these allegations are being met with police intimidation rather than with the professional attentiveness. This pattern of wrongdoing towards truth-telling Alberta doctors, including Drs. Hodkinson, Nagase, and Modry must be brought to an end. Its scandalous how they and other conscientious health care practitioners have been treated in AHS's Alberta.
Dr. Makis was one of the featured doctors given a podium by the Injection of Truth event on June 17 sponsored by the Lougheed Calgary CA. As Dr. Makis observes in his latest comments in a series of presentations discussing the relationship between the UCP and the AHS, there has been to this day no proper response to the Injection of Truth event from the Alberta caucus. Why are Premier Smith and Health Minister Adriana LeGrange so quiet on the subject?
Amidst the deafening silence on the part of UCP officials, Dr. Makis has continued his analysis of the AHS crime spree with a growing focus in his perception that our Premier has been threatened and intimidated with the goal of preventing her from addressing the alleged criminality in the AHS. The scale and scope of this AHS crime spree obviously goes way beyond a registered nurse scamming half a million dollars from her employer in a single year.
In his most recent commentary Dr. Makis referred to 8 MLAs in the UCP caucus who he claims are running interference to defend the AHS from the kind of charges that he believes are the necessary prelude to fixing what is wrong. What is wrong in this province, asserts Dr. Makis, is that the AHS is more powerful than the Alberta government due largely to the AHS's near total control over the judiciary and the legal establishment which are all bought and paid for by the health care mafia running Alberta without accountability. Who is in a position to fix this crippling corruption in our legal establishment that is robbing Albertans of the justice we the citizens deserve.
Why does this Yakk Stack report on the Alberta government and the AHS avoid any mention of Dr. Makis' increasing explicit allegations? Many people can see that the culprits who brought us the COVID 19 crime spree and power grab are about to come at us with yet another fake or engineered pandemic. As Dr. Makis suggests, the heavily politicized doctors that were front and centre in the Covidian debacle will be the same NDP gang of media hogs that will dominate the next round of media coverage if present trends continue.
For my part, I want to see the UCP government act in a way that it is no longer on the defensive when it comes to health care matters. I would like to see our elected provincial officials go on the offence against the dangerous medical mafia embedded in the AHS/NDP/Trudeau government/College of Physicians complex.
Prof. Emeritus Anthony James Hall
University of Lethbridge
Please see Dr. Makis's most recent commentary at
https://makismd.substack.com/p/new-podcast-15-minutes-with-drmakis-13a?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=1385328&post_id=148167812&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&r=jn12i&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email