B.C. Conservatives pitch health-care changes, more private clinics
- The leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia plans to send people outside the province for health care and expand private clinics to address a system "in crisis."
- John Rustad acknowledges that his party's plan may increase the provincial budget initially, but he believes it will lower per-capita health-care spending in the long term.
- Rustad also states that expanding partnerships with non-governmental clinics could reduce wait-lists and that successful European models demonstrate this can be done "seamlessly.
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B.C. Conservatives' health-care platform pitches private clinics, guaranteed wait times
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad said if he becomes premier after the fall election, he would establish guaranteed wait times for medical services like surgeries and cancer treatment and increase the use of private clinics.

B.C. Conservatives pitch health-care changes, more private clinics
VANCOUVER – The leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia says as premier his government would pay to send people outside the province for health care and expand private […]
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