The Alberta Friends of Medicare are advising Northerners to pay attention to a legal opinion pertaining to Alberta’s bills 11 and 29, which make private ownership of hospitals in that province possible and could see diagnostic services switch to a user-pay system. Bill 11 is, “the most extensive privatization of payment for medically necessary services in Canada since the Canada Health Act was enacted in 1984,” Emma Phillips, of Goldblatt Partne…
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