Alberta Health Care

By Phil Hindmarch

Health care’s very sick.
Who’s in charge for real?
Is Gene Zwozdesky
Or Raj Sherman at the wheel?

Raj has blown the whistle.
The system sucks he states.
He’s an Alberta hero,
But on Stelmach’s nerves he grates!

The Cookie Monster gone,
Liepert kicked upstairs,
It’s an unamusing game
Of bureaucratic chairs!

The Emergency is full,
The sick wailing in the streets,
Lucky to be treated
Ere Grim-Reaper reaps.

Doctors are so busy
If surgery’s what you need,
The guy who empties bedpans
May have to do the deed!

But try not to despair!
Some, indeed, will thrive.
The system’s going private.
The rich get to stay alive!