Commentary Enacted together in 1965, Medicare is the U.S. federal government-managed health insurance program for citizens 65 and over, while Medicaid is the de facto welfare program for low-income adults, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities. While 36 million people were enrolled in traditional Medicare in 2021, the program’s actuaries already envision this number…

The mayor of Middleton, Nova Scotia, is calling for changes to the province’s health-care system after a patient admitted to the local hospital died during a cardiac arrest, and volunteer firefighters were called in to help because there was no doctor available on site. Mayor Sylvester Atkinson wrote a letter on June 19 to Nova…

The month after becoming Alberta premier in October 2022, when she won the United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership race, Danielle Smith dismissed the entire Alberta Health Services board and appointed a single administrator to allow health-care reform to be implemented more quickly. The urgent priorities identified for Dr. John Cowell included improving wait times and consulting…

Commentary It’s time to move on. The Alberta election is over: Danielle Smith is the premier and that means it is time for the politicians to put aside the campaign’s empty rhetoric and face the realities of how they can best fix a broken health-care system. It is estimated that as many as 800,000 Albertans…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently claimed a “decisive victory” of his national pandemic measures since November 2022. His talk took place as mass deaths have further devastated the entire nation after three years of strict zero-COVID policy that ruined both lives and the economy of the nation. Analysts said it indicated Xi’s rule is faced…

Alberta will be reforming its health care system with or without money from the federal government, Premier Danielle Smith says. At a news conference on Jan. 10, Smith said that even if the federal government does not provide funding, health care is the “number one most important thing” that Albertans expect to be improved. Smith…

Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that the Alberta Health Services (AHS) board has been replaced with a full-time experienced administrator, who previously held the role, to make immediate changes to the health care system. Dr. John Cowell has been appointed to carry out health care reform promises made during Smith’s election campaign, the premier said at…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that the Alberta Health Services (AHS) board has been replaced with a full-time experienced administrator, who previously held the role, to make immediate changes to the health care system. Dr. John Cowell has been appointed to carry out health care reform promises made during Smith’s election campaign, the premier said…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that the Alberta Health Services (AHS) board has been replaced with a full-time experienced administrator, who previously held the role, to make immediate changes to the health care system. Dr. John Cowell has been appointed to carry out health care reform promises made during Smith’s election campaign, the premier said…

At least 2.9 million Canadians are waiting for surgery, diagnostic scans, or specialist appointments, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests obtained by SecondStreet.org, a think tank. Not all provinces had data available, leading SecondStreet.org to suggest that the true total could be close to 4 million people on waiting lists. Waiting lists are at…