A Calgary clinic informed its clients it would be introducing a 'membership-based medical service,' running $4,800 a year for a two-parent family membership. Such arrangements have been growing increasingly common in recent years, experts say.
— experts say arrangements like the one being offered at the Marda Loop clinic are becoming increasingly common.Back in 2008, Alberta's health minister at the time was asked whether he had any concerns about a private clinic, the Copeman Healthcare Centre, opening up shop in downtown Calgary,The clinics didn't contravene the Canada Health Act because they didn't charge patients for medically necessary services, CEO Don Copeman said at the time.
stipulates that patients can't be charged for "medically necessary" services, provided in a hospital or by a doctor.Consider services like chiropractic services, which are At the time of the analysis, which was between November 2019 and June 2020, there were 14 private clinics in Alberta with a range of membership fees and private payment. During that same period, there were 24 in Ontario and 30 in Quebec.
There have been ebbs and flows in the conversation at a policy level about what to do about this issue, Clement noted, but added that everyone's a little bit hamstrung, as technically there's nothing wrong about what's happening. "We shouldn't be creating two tiers, where some people pay to get into a certain clinic that others can't access," he said.In a statement, a spokesperson with Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange wrote that the government remains committed to the principles of the Canada Health Act, adding that Albertans don't need to pay out of pocket for insured health services.
"A combination of pressures related to increasing rental prices, and for increasing staff wages, as well as just general inflation in their daily lives, I think there is a pretty large pressure to increase revenues, however possible," said Rosalie Wyonch, lead of the health policy research program at the C. D. Howe Institute public policy think tank.
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