Editorial: Heal our hospitals

That Alberta hospitals spend large amounts of money comes as little surprise given the high cost of health care.
But the devil is in the details and it took the digging of Edmonton Journal reporter Keith Gerein in an in-depth investigation and a follow-up piece to reveal that it’s not just a case of hospitals being expensive facilities to operate by nature of their mission to heal the sick.
It’s worse; Alberta’s hospitals are set up to overspend, then to reset and repeat. They&