Bizarre UCP plan would see Alberta patients shipped to B.C. for surgeries

What the hell was the Kenney Government up to last fall when it had the brainstorm to compel Alberta Health Services to ship patients and their surgeons to an apparently under-used surgical facility in B.C.’s Okanagan?

In 2017, the Okanagan Health Surgical Centre was also included by the Globe and Mail on a list of private Canadian medical facilities at which physicians were charging both government and patients privately in what the newspaper termed an “illegal double-dipping practice.”

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