Valerie Cook

Just a reminder…

While Smith and Lagrange are talking about the biggest factors influencing health outcomes and why they’re profitizing Alberta’s healthcare…

The #1 factor that determines health outcomes is made worse by the policy.

It’s poverty.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The Pain-Racked Patients Alberta’s Orthopedic Surgery Centre Won’t Take | The Tyee Surgeons offered a $975,000 way to fix the public clinic’s backlog of 1,400 ‘complex’ cases. AHS said no.

~AHS&LaGrange refuse to increase funding by a relatively small amount to a public facility meant to serve complex patients while paying inflated fees to chartered surgical facilities.

LaGrange is holding the line over $975,000 after the UCP wasted $70M on Turkish Tylenol

thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

I'm choosing to believe that after the last leaked Janet Brown poll, she's testing them with a fake poll to see if they'll abide by their contract. A theory that's less nauseous than the UCP leading...

#cdnpoli #Canada

Raise the bar, stand with CUPW.
canadians.org/update/state...

An utterly beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking read.