Eby slams U.S.-style health care privatization, Conservatives claim ‘fearmongering’
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DELTA — British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby took aim at the premier next door while campaigning in this month’s election, promising not to implement what he called the “U.S.-style privatization” of health care.
Eby told a group of supporters asking him questions in Delta on Monday that Alberta’s United Conservative Party government made vague promises about protecting public health care, but are now creating a system where doctors can charge families money for medically necessary surgeries.
Eby says B.C. Conservatives are advocating for the same thing, but the Conservatives say they are committed “keeping B.C.’s system universal and publicly funded” and accuse Eby of “tired health-care fearmongering.”
On a stage surrounded by supporters and backed by a large Canadian flag, Eby signed what his party calls its “public health-care guarantee” which promises to protect the system from changes that would charge patients for necessary care, let people pay to jump the queue or pull staff from public health care.
