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ESMAIL, MOIR: Smith government’s health-care vouchers another step towards successful European model

The Smith government should focus not only on how other universal health-care countries provide patients an option to avoid their (much shorter) wait times, but also on how other countries got those much shorter wait times in the first place.

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Only in Canada could the Smith government’s new plan — which would give patients waiting too long for health care vouchers to access care elsewhere in the province including in private facilities — be called a path to “American-style” health care.

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