In 2008, that province’s PC government decided that Alberta’s health care regions and small agencies ought to be folded into one central health organization. Instead of the hoped-for bureaucratic efficiency, Albertans got bureaucratic chaos and worsening health care results. All those points aside, centralization of health control is out of synch with the way health care is delivered. The sole virtue of centralizing health care bureaucracy is that it might reduce the amount of money spent on health care management. Unfortunately, solving that problem would not make any rational person’s list of the top 10 health care problems to fix.

Source: National Post February 14, 2019 18:44 UTC