OTTAWA — The federal government’s reluctance to weigh in on an Alberta law that could expand private health care is becoming entangled with Ottawa’s aversion to fuelling separatist sentiment in the province, health advocates charge.
Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act became provincial law late last year and would, in its most controversial application, create a “dual-practice” framework allowing some physicians to provide publicly insured care while also offering certain privately paid services.
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