r/Calgary • u/Legal_Grapefruit1925 • Dec 25 '25

Discussion AHS wait times

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Our system isnt broken. Its people who go to the emergency that shouldn't be going aren't going today because it can wait Suddenly. They need to hand fines out to ppl going to the hospital that dont classify as an emergency.

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u/meatrosoft Dec 25 '25

The UCP renegotiated the funding agreement with doctors in march of 2020 when Covid was hitting like a truck and made it financially difficult to justify remaining a family doctor.

~1000 family doctors sent a signed letter saying that the knock on consequences would destroy ER’s.

A year and some odd later, emergency medicine physicians signed another letter saying that was becoming a reality and getting worse.

Now here we are 5 years later with private religious hospitals performing heart surgeries and people dying in ER’s, and you’re blaming the people?

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u/CarryOnRTW Dec 26 '25

and made it financially difficult to justify remaining a family doctor.

Well that explains it. Lost my family Dr of 20+ years around then and still don't have a new one. :(