Provincial Budget Cuts Per Capita Health Care Spending, Acute Care Services
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The budget delivered by the Alberta Government on March 6, 2014, included cuts to overall health care spending per person and specific cuts to acute care services. The result will simply be less health care for Albertans.
Click here to read our news release on the budget.
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Throne Speech Signals Less Health Care for Albertans
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The Alberta Government's Throne Speech on March 4, 2014, pledged they would be "holding spending below population and inflation growth until 2016," meaning less health care spending per person every year.
Click here to read our statement on what the Throne Speech means for health care in Alberta.
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Slave Lake Area Residents Hold Protest at Alberta Legislature
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Friends of Medicare and Concerned Citizens of Healthcare - Lesser Slave Lake held a protest at the Alberta Legislature on Tuesday, March 4th.
The groups are calling for Health Minister Fred Horne to act to save four Slave Lake doctors who are being forced to leave the community and also to restore health services, such as maternity care, that have been removed from the community.
Click here to read our press release issued for the protest.
Click here to read quotes from Alberta Hansard related to the Slave Lake situation from the March 4th session.
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Friends of Medicare Op-Ed: Medical Tourism is a Sickness, Not a Cure
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Our Executive Director, Sandra Azocar, recently had an op-ed published in the Calgary Herald in response to an article about a Calgary resident paying $40,000 to travel to the Turks & Caicos Islands with her Calgary doctor to have a knee surgery performed.
Click here to read the op-ed and the original article.
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Canadian Health Coalition Advocates for a Stronger Federal Role in Public Health Care
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Friends of Medicare joined with partners across the country in Ottawa for events with the Canadian Health Coalition in December of 2013. The policy focus was three-fold: a public pharmacare plan, a national continuing care strategy, and the renewal of the federal health accord expiring in 2014.
Click here to watch videos from the full-day conference entitled "A Seniors Health Care Plan for Canada".
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WATCH: Sandra Azocar Talks Seniors' Care on Alberta Primetime
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Our Executive Director Sandra Azocar was recently on Alberta Primetime to discuss the state of seniors' care in the province.
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WATCH: Doctors Say Universal Pharmacare is a Common Sense Proposal
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Canadian Doctors for Medicare has just released a new video explaining why a universal pharmacare program makes sense for Canada. It will improve the health of patients and will save money in our health care systems at the same time.
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