title: Health care reform comes to Alberta: "we're making this up as we go along".
abstract: Alberta left physicians out in the cold when Premier Ralph Klein's government began to slash the province's health care budget. Frustrated and angered at being excluded from the restructuring of the province's health care system, physicians rallied in protest, and now have some input into the new regional health authorities, at least in Edmonton and Calgary. Still, some physicians who feel the restructuring is an uncontrolled social experiment have opted to leave for positions in the US.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cairney
mesh_terms: D000416:Alberta; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002017:Budgets; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*