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  • Health Care Navigation Resources in Alberta

    Health Care Navigation Resources in Alberta

  • Health Care Privatizer Decoder

    Health care announcements keep being made... but something seems fishy. With all the politicking, real intentions can be hard to parse—That's why we created this decoder. 

    Watch out for these words! When the government uses them, what they’re really talking about is their plan to continue privatizing and dismantling our public health care system.

    Fom Friends of Medicare

    Written by
    February 22, 2025

  • The facts on Pharmacare

    Did you know that Canada is the only country with a universal health care system that does NOT provide universal coverage of medically necessary prescriptions? 😱 We need Pharmacare NOW!

  • Health care isn't a commodity—no one should be able to profit from the health needs of Albertans. We need to finally end these costly, risky privatization experiments & bring our labs back under the public system! Via @FriendsMedicare #ABhealth #ABleg

  • Continuing Care: Get the Facts

    Get the facts on Alberta's continuing care!

  • Major changes to our home care system are already underway. We need increased funding and systematic, disability-led reform in order to protect the autonomy of all Albertans who rely on home care services!

  • Blog: How does Budget 2023 stack up for our health care?

    Last week, the UCP passed their final budget Albertans will see before voting in this spring’s provincial election. The government spent the days leading up to Budget Day trying to assure Albertans that health care would be taken care of. Premier Smith and her AHS administrator appointee, Dr. John Cowell even went so far as to declare that our health care system is no longer in crisis, a claim which was swiftly quashed by the people actually working on the front-lines of Alberta’s public health care.

    But behind all the political boasting and rhetoric, how does this budget really stack up when it comes to Alberta's health care?

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by
    March 08, 2023

  • Fact Check: Bill 204

    Friends of Medicare and other Albertans concerned about the impact Bill 204 will have on our public blood system have been contacting Tany Yao and their MLAs to urge them not to allow this dangerous bill to pass. In response they have been receiving the following standard template letter from both MLA Yao and other UCP MLAs, containing factual errors and misinformation. Friends of Medicare has fact checked this letter to set the record straight: Bill 204 won't help Albertan patients. 
    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by
    November 10, 2020

  • Blog: Privatization STILL isn't the answer

    Patients and health care workers in Alberta are suffering the impacts of a wide-spread short staffing crisis throughout our public health care system. But instead of listening to those on the front-lines and working to address it, our provincial government is pursuing an aggressive privatization agenda that will only make things worse.

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by
    August 13, 2020