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Profits and Health Care Delivery
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Clarifying the debate
THE QUESTION OF THE APPROPRIATE MIX BETWEEN PUBLIC AND private in health care has become a topic of considerable heat, both within Canada and internationally. Advocates of more "privatization" claim that it is needed to encourage innovation, efficiency, competition and choice. Opponents point to a host of difficulties they fear will arise from greater use of the "private sector" for delivery, including worries about quality of care and the compatibility of the values inherent in health care with those underlying markets. Policy initiatives such as Alberta's desire to approve for-profit surgical clinics or Ontario's to open more private MRI clinics have become …
