Private insurance system ‘workable solution’ for Canada’s rising health care costs, Harper said as NCC head

David Gratzer 'proposes workable solution' for 'government-controlled health care monopoly, Canada needs Gratzer’s new prescription,' said Prime Minister Stephen Harper about Mr. Gratzer's recommendations for a form of private medical savings accounts popular in the U.S. in a review of his book Code Blue.

PARLIAMENT HILL—Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as president of the right-wing National Citizens Coalition in 1999, endorsed a proposal for a separate private health insurance system in Canada as a “workable solution” for rising costs and problems with medicare.

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