The Growing ‘Loopholes’ Allowing Private Care in Canada’s Staunchly Universal System

It is true. Wait a year for an MRI in the public system or you have at least two local choices for one within a week or so in Calgary, but the costs I am told can be from $300 to 730.
How can this be a bad thing? Unions, plus bureaucratic empire building and featherbedding , and incursions by Big Pharma, have immobilzed and de-incentivized the public sytem to where it is likely killing as many as it saves, and making life miserable for people on waiting lists. .
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/analysis-the-loopholes-that-allow-private-health-care-in-canada-5682783?utm_source=left-sharing-widget-v1&utm_medium=copyLink