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“We are going to make sure that the patient is at the centre of the decision making, meaning that if a patient needs to get care and are languishing on public waiting lists, we are going to get that patient care if it’s in a private clinic, absolutely,” Falcon said.“Private delivery of publicly funded, care is going to be part of how we’re going to deal with the kind of waitlists that we have today. Patients will not have to personally pay anything.
“Private delivery results in longer wait times, reduced capacity in the public system, poor service for the public and poor pay for the specialized health care professionals who are already worn out and ready to quit,” the union said in a statement.The message in Toronto-St. Paul’s loss is ‘loud and clear,’ minister saysSunak, Starmer get heated in final debate before U.K. election