Alberta Advantage Podcast

MINI-EP: Surgery Privatization: Public Risk, Private Profit


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Alberta's UCP government recently announced a plan to reduce surgical wait times: farming out 80,000 surgeries to private, for-profit providers. Ricardo Acuna, Executive Director of the Parkland Institute, joins Team Advantage to discuss the legacy of private for-profit health service delivery in Alberta. Has it ever worked? Does it produce any beneficial results? What does it do to our public health care system? Read Ricardo's blog post here: https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/fact_checking_jason_kenney_s_wait_list_strategy Follow Ricardo at @RicAcuna, and follow the Parkland Institute's work at parklandinstitute.ca and @ParklandInst.
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