Commentary
The Alberta government is taking a bold, necessary step towards finally fixing the broken Canadian health-care model.
And while many activists and academics may aggressively wag their fingers and shake their fists at Premier Danielle Smith’s reforms, they can rest easy. If they wag or shake too aggressively and break something, they’ll at least have better access to health care to get it fixed.
Smith announced this week that Alberta will keep its public health-care system, but allow patients to pay for private surgery if they want to. This is a huge change. Generally speaking, as it stands now, Quebec is the only jurisdiction in Canada where patients have this right….