The Globe and Mail first reported that, according to documents it had obtained, Alberta is considering legislative changes that would permit doctors to work under the public and private health systems as they see fit.
The excerpt below is not an accurate summary of this article, but what I felt was important:
The advocacy group Friends of Medicare called on the province to scrap its plans, and put its time and effort into supporting the public health-care system.
Chris Gallaway, the organization’s executive director, said in a statement Tuesday that the government’s plan paves a path toward “two-tiered” health care that “if allowed to pass, would unequivocally bulldoze a path for American-style health care in Alberta.”
In a way this ruined health care in India. Public health care system ended up being used only by poor while middle/rich class used private hospitals. Every doctor opened their own clinic in the evening and had every incentive to degrade public healthcare.
They’re being bribed with 10s of millions of dollars or more to ensure this is exactly what happens here, as fast as possible.
I wonder at what point the provinces are in violation of the Canada Health Act? Im not familiar with the exact wording of the act but I was under the impression that it was supposed to prevent private health services.
You can have private practices, but there are restrictions usually.
In BC you can’t take part in MSP if you have a private practice, you gotta choose.
What Alberta is doing is removing that restriction.
