Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make the Beyond Acute Care conference a success. In total, more than 500 people attended the keynote address by Ralph Nader on February 24 and participated in the conference on February 25.

Listen to the audio of Ralph Nader’s keynote speech

This website will remain an active online location where you can find information about care for seniors and the disabled in Alberta.

The resource material provided to conference participants is also available on this website for your information.

Listen to the conference speakers and panelists:

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Assessing Trends in the Delivery of Care in Alberta. Panelists include Wendy Armstrong, Ryan Geake, Executive Director, Calgary Scope Society, and David Eggen, Executive Director, Friends of Medicare.

Probing the Pitfalls of Privatization – Around the World in 80 minutes. Panelists include Margaret McGregor, University of British Columbia, Toby Edelman, Senior Policy Attorney, Centre for Medicare Advocacy, Washington DC, and Eleanor Smith, President of Unison – UK.

Big Ideas that make sense. Panelists include Tamara Daly, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health – School of Health Policy & Management, York University, Marcy Cohen, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Diana Gibson, Researcher, Parkland Institute.

Pushing Back – Moving Forward: Expanding the Medicare Umbrella. Panelists include Noel Somerville, Chairperson PIA, Seniors Task Force, Michael McBane, Executive Director, Canadian Health Coalition, and Gil McGowan, President, Alberta Federation Labour.

Beyond Acute Care: Covering Seniors and the Disabled with the Medicare Umbrella, was sponsored by several organizations determined to protect, enhance and extend Canada’s and Alberta’s fair and efficient system of public administered, publicly funded and publicly operated system of Medicare.

Organizations supporting this conference include: