I would vote for a modified 2 teir system (A full 2 teir able to line jump system simply wouldnt work).
Where people cant pay to jump but the goverment can contract out procedures. It has the added benefit especially in Alberta in weakening the ever powerful nurses union.
The problem is that the public system would get cremed in the stats and that would force more money to be washed downed the drain to imporve the statistics of the public system.
Also, if you were running a serious private system in Alberta - you wouldnt hire Canadian grads (so there would be no employee drain). You would bring over nurses and doctors from India/Eastern Europe and paid to get them certified and have them on a 10 year contract. When it runs out you dump them (if they get dilusions of union) and do it all over again. Have the imports overseen by a very select few North American trained workers (likely from the US and less likely to be sucked into a union movement).
I personally think a system like that would work fantastically - also the private clinic wouldnt diagnose, only repairs etc. That way you funnel people through the normal chains and then the hospital shuffles them off from there. That way there is no competing between private and public since you dont have an option.
MYK
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