Commentary Here’s a strange headline. “Private Med Clinic Expands Network.” And the strange part isn’t “Med.” It’s that this first story in the June 7 National Post is about Canada, fabled land of socialized medicine. What wretch snuck in a network of private clinics? The company in question is WELL Health Technologies Corp., which just spent a fifth of a billion dollars adding 77 clinics to its network by purchasing MyHealth Centres to “create the largest private-sector-owned network of medical clinics in Canada.” But not, you’ll notice, the only or the first. In fact, most Canadian health care is provided by private for-profit individuals and businesses, and much of the rest by private non-profits. The occasional maniac has called to conscript health-care providers in Canada, but thank goodness they have been ignored. Still, if you’re looking for villains here, try Hamed Shahbazi, chair and CEO of WELL Health, who for …
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