said it wasn\u2019t consulted <\/a>on the legislation, and it wants a seat at the table as further details are hammered out.<\/p>\n\u201cAny reform needs to be informed with the best evidence. It needs experts to actually weigh in,\u201d the group\u2019s president, Dr. Brian Wirzba, said in an interview with CBC News.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost places that have tried this have run into problems. \u2026 It\u2019s going to be really important to have the details really well laid out.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a press release, the Alberta government said the dual practice model is “widely used in countries with top-performing health systems, including Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Australia.”<\/p>\n
Dr. Jon Meddings, a retired gastroenterologist and former dean of the University of Calgary\u2019s Cumming School of Medicine, said he\u2019s not opposed to the idea of a private pay option in Alberta, but the devil is in the details.<\/p>\n
“It’s an interesting experiment to try,” he said. <\/p>\n
“If it succeeds \u2014 wonderful … My worry, though, it is not well thought out [and] it has not received a lot of consultation.”<\/p>\n
Part of the problem that we have in Alberta is that we don’t have enough physicians to run two systems.- Dr. Jon Meddings<\/p>\n
He believes the dual practice system will inevitably draw some doctors, already in short supply (such as anesthetists), away from the public system and, as a result, it will not reduce wait times.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of the examples that have been used about why this works elsewhere are comparisons to countries that actually don’t have the same system as us and, most importantly, actually have many more physicians than we do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 6 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-154714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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