Private-sector health role supported by Stronach

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http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040127.wxconserv27/BNStory/Front/

OTTAWA — A Conservative government under Belinda Stronach would open the door to greater private-sector involvement in health care. At a campaign rally in Ottawa yesterday evening, the Conservative Party leadership contender said the health-care system has to offer ''a better product for a better price.''

She said that within the principle of "universal access," the private sector could play a larger role, allowing for innovations to a system that she said is unsustainable. Ms. Stronach said she is looking at the Alberta model, where the government has expanded the role of private companies in the delivery of health services to the public, but not gone so far as to allow people to pay out of their own pockets for medically necessary services from private providers.

"We have to say, 'Who can best deliver those services, you know, without compromising the quality, perhaps even giving better quality at a better price,' " Ms. Stronach said at a news conference. "So if it can be better quality at a better price, and it does not compromise the principles of universal access to health care, I think that is something we should consider."

It's a bad move every day with Belinda. Vote Stronach!

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1. Scary!

A lot about this Mulroneyesque figure scares me.