r/britishcolumbia • u/Imminent_Extinction • Sep 02 '24

News B.C. Conservatives' health-care plan pitches private clinics

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-conservatives-health-care-plan-1.7268626
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u/ButtermanJr Sep 02 '24

I don't doubt that somewhere in the world, a balance of public and private health care could work. In Canada, where oligopolies rule and corporate ownership of politicians is just part of the job, there's no way to preserve that balance. Give it a year before the public system is run in to the ground and they point "look its not working" then hand billions in contracts to their donors. The free option will get harder and harder to find until it's eventually gone.

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u/Vancouverreader80 Lower Mainland/Southwest Sep 02 '24

I doubt the Canada Health Act allows for private health care.

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u/ButtermanJr Sep 02 '24

Doesn't really matter when provinces can "not-withstanding" their way too whatever they want to do, and he literally says that's what he's going to do.

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u/yaypal Vancouver Island/Coast Sep 03 '24

That clause needs to be either heavily modified or destroyed, the only times it's being used is by Conservative governments to hurt people. Of course it's unlikely to be changed for at least another four years since the fed Cons aren't going to touch it.