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The Backbench Live: A Year in Review

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I'm Running on You Will Pay More for Your Health Care Out of Pocket

In Saskatchewan, you need to get a cataract surgery or knee replacement or hip replacement. That stuff still happens at the public system, but they push it through private clinics. Privatization should be basically outsourced some of this to private clinics who then can hire doctors and nurses presumably away from the public system. But privatization is not a substitute for like, the provinces aren't getting enough money so you're going to have to put your hand into your pocket when you go and get a service.

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