Profit before people
Manufactured health-care "crisis" designed to justify privatization
Right-wing government officials are aware that the vast majority of Canadians view public health care as a sacred cow that is not to be messed with. However, this doesn’t prevent them from making every effort to gradually whittle away public health-care benefits. Since each province decides which procedures are “medically necessary,” there is considerable discrepancy in the extent of coverage between provinces.