Capitalism Comes To Canada's Health

A push by the Canadian Medical Association to let doctors work in both the public and private systems with an eye to easing wait times under medicare is running into more opposition, this time from Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.

McGuinty said the CMA's track toward a two-tier health system – which critics fear would erode medicare by luring doctors away from it – ignores efforts by Ontario and other provinces to improve public health care by reducing wait times for treatment in key areas such as hip and knee replacements.

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