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Lorne Gunter: Canada needs to look to public-private models to fix health care

Edmonton Journal24 October 2026, 11:00 UTCCanada

Canada spends the second-highest percentage of its GDP on health care of any of the 32 industrialized countries with universal health-care systems. Second highest. So every time a politician or a health-care union, a provincial medical association or a friends of medicare group complains about the level of public funding in the Canadian system, you […]

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