Overview
- Letters published Dec. 27 describe hospitals as "slammed" by respiratory illnesses and report severe emergency department crowding.
- Contributors argue the United Conservative Party’s underfunding, repeated restructuring, privatization and adversarial stance toward physicians destabilized health care.
- Several writers contend the government scaled back promotion and access for flu, RSV and COVID vaccines, which they link to wider outbreaks.
- One letter alleges a father of three died while waiting in an ER hallway on Christmas Eve, citing it as evidence of failing emergency care.
- Critics condemn the newly passed Alberta Disability Assistance Program as mirroring the U.K.’s assessments with harmful outcomes and added paperwork burdens, and some say Premier Danielle Smith broke her pledge to fix health care within 100 days.