The NDP government plans to introduce legislation this spring designed to prevent the further privatization of Alberta's health-care system by banning extra billing at fee-based private clinics, leaked documents reveal. CBC News has obtained a March 8 draft of the Protection of Public Health Care Act. A political economist said while the draft bill tries to set boundaries for private clinics, it may not achieve its goal of ensuring a single-tier health-care system. If that was the case, Harrison said, "the private clinics could only survive by charging for those additional kinds of boutique services." Harrison, the political economist, said is is difficult to determine the exact impact a bill like this would have on those private clinics.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2019 12:00 UTC