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If your as interested in this topic as it seems you are, there is a great book i can recommend (its a very fast read) called Follow The Money: Where is Alberta's Wealth Going
https://www.amazon.ca/Follow-Money-Where-Albertas-Wealth/dp/1550594354/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=follow+the+money&qid=1565053671&s=gateway&sr=8-4
It breaks down a lot of the questions you are arguing against here and might help give some clarity on the issues as it breaks down a lot of data to show whats happening.
Long story short of the book: Alberta is one of the wealthiest provinces, a significant amount of Alberta's wealth gets put into the profits of oil and gas companies who do not use their tax breaks to reinvest in Albertas infrastructure or Economy.
Its a great example of how trickledown economics do not work because unfortunately, the companies who get the tax breaks do not want the same thing as the government who is giving them tax breaks.
It's 2 years out of date now, and I can't recall at the moment what years his data came from (at the time of writing it was recent) but I highly recommend Follow The Money by Kevin Taft. It doesn't deal with health care specifically, but looks at where the money is going in a province that is rich but with quite often subpar public services.