This should add some fuel to the campaign....
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The federal government should stop enforcing the rules that govern medicare for five years so that provinces can "experiment" with new ways to finance the system, such as direct patient payments and private insurance, a new report released Monday says.
The report by the Fraser Institute says Canada is experiencing a "medicare bubble" as its spending on health care becomes increasing costly and unaffordable.
"The Canada Health Act forbids many of the successful policies that are commonly used in other developed countries that also have universal access health-care systems," Mark Rovere, co-author of the Fraser Institute report, said in a written statement.
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