Liberal Party resolutions focus on challenges of enforcing Canada Health Act

The non-binding policy proposals come in the wake of a new Alberta law allowing physicians to work in both the private and public systems. The law will ‘fundamentally change the structure of Canada's health system and not just tweak the delivery of it,’ says Canadian Doctors for Medicare’s Dr. Bernard Ho.
Health Minister Marjorie Michel, pictured on the Hill, is talking to the Alberta government about Bill 11, according to Liberal MP Hedy Fry, chair of the House Health Committee.

As the Alberta government prepares to enhance private delivery of health care through new legislation, the province's federal Liberal Party members recently sent a message to Ottawa that more needs to be done to protect Canada’s public medicare system. 

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