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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
My concern in either case is of course is that when you bring private into the health care equation, profit also enters to equation. So obviously they have no reason to offer these procedures at the public health rate. Meaning either the government will pay more for health care (and our taxes rise no doubt), or patients have to come up with the difference between the cost and the theoritical voucher value, making it highly unlikely they will choose the more expensive option and thus not actually helping with wait times at all. Just curious how it all works really.
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The Canada Health Act makes it illegal to overbill, so no matter where someone will get the service it will cost the same to taxpayers. To do otherwise would be circumventing federal law.