Alberta's 'Third Way' could mean health-care showdown with Ottawa

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Alberta has outlined its 10-point plan to reshape medicare and in the process has unleashed what could become a major challenge to the Canada Health Act.

Who cares ?

Why ? Because in all of ontario there are only allowed 250 new doctors per year.
Out of thousands and thousands of applicants. (edit: one presumes there is a similar limit in Alberta , though I don't know what the limit is)


Doctors already have the ability to opt out of the public system completely in Alberta, but the government says that isn't happening, so it wants to introduce a hybrid system allowing physicians to offer private delivery of health care, if they submit a business plan and can prove that the public system won't be harmed.


Notice how the option of allowing more than 250 doc's a year to be trained never seems to come up ? Is never mentioned ?

They want to draw on an already limited pool of doctors when they can easily double or triple the size of that pool with no loss in quality. Do you know how many thousands and thousands of people would love to become doctors ? And skimming the top 1000 instead of the top 250 is just a drop in the bucket in that number.

But this never comes up for some reason.
Who the heck is making money off of this , I wonder ?