Despite charges of "Americanization!", the changes Alberta is making mimic cheaper and more effective European models

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If we all resolve to be honest for the New Year, we can agree that no Canadian political party has done a good job on health care over the past 30 years. Liberals, Conservatives and NDPers have all had several turns running provincial governments yet no one has delivered acceptable results consistently.

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Why? Because they’ve all largely done the same thing: spend more money and hope things work out. Canada is one of the higher spenders in the world on health care and yet we are in crisis pretty much coast to coast. Just think of the famous definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.

This is why it’s such good news that one province is finally going to break this cycle.

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