{"id":555386,"date":"2026-03-23T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:52:53","slug":"council-of-canadians-warns-about-two-tier-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555386\/","title":{"rendered":"Council of Canadians Warns About Two-Tier Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/council-of-canadians.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Council of Canadians Warns About Two-Tier Healthcare\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Council of Canadians protest (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Canadians warns that a bill moving through the Alberta legislature to privatize healthcare threatens to create a system where access to care could depend on your credit card.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta\u2019s Bill 11 allows doctors to work in both the public system and a private-pay market simultaneously. <\/p>\n<p>Physicians would charge patients directly for some publicly-insured services, raising concerns that it would create a two-tiered system and push those with the ability to pay to the front of the line.<\/p>\n<p>Members gathered outside the office of federal cabinet minister Joanne Thompson yesterday, urging Ottawa to enforce the Canada Health Act.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Earle was among them. She worries that with Alberta already on track for privatization, Newfoundland and Labrador could be next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to find that you no longer need a health card to access health care, you\u2019re going to need your credit card and that is very upsetting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Council of Canadians protest (VOCM News) The Council of Canadians warns that a bill moving through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-555386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}