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We need two-tiered medicine
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Apr 6, 2011
…the Canada Health Act must be modernized to allow patients to pay for care if they wish in entirely separate, privately funded facilities. Individuals who go to these centres would be paying for care out of their own pockets or through privately purchased insurance. By doing this, patients will be leaving the public queues and thus shortening them. Physicians would work in both systems. Patients choosing to access private facilities would also be free to use the public system that their taxes pay for. Private facilities would act as a release valve, removing demand from the public system…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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