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Conditions quickly deteriorated when Alberta transitioned to provincewide service with the company, he wrote.
Waiting times for community lab tests increased from a few days to five weeks in some areas. There were also unusually high numbers of errors in pathology results. In the last three weeks of July, 2023, the report says, more than 600 patients had to retake tests because of a logistics issue AHS had discovered.
Mr. Wylie wrote there were “persistent issues” in governance and oversight throughout the procurement process. Neither AHS nor Alberta’s health department followed their processes to prepare a business case for outsourcing lab services, he wrote, and AHS continued with procurement “despite knowing that the main objective of cost savings was likely unattainable.”
If one were mad at Trudeau about the pay system mishap, regardless of who bought the program to start with, this, and the Turkish Tylenol should also make any reasonable Albertan citizen angry.
Agreed. But you’re talking about the majority of “Albertan citizens” here.
And we should remember it was Jason Kenney who did this, not Danielle Smith. They are all the same.
Nothing new here, Alberta is currently under a kleptocracy. So they’ll be repeating this same process with private surgeries. The UCP learned one lesson, their base will allow it, so they might as well do it again.
If there were an election here tomorrow, the NDP would be back in. There’s a lot of upset people right now across the province.
The UCP is rotten to the core.
