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
The Liberals must stop growing the public service and instead find ways to boost the economy
(Really, get off our backs and get out of the way. That's all it would take)
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/fire-the-bureaucrats