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Dr. Brian Postl also warned in an interview of a potential "enormous acceleration" of public costs embedded in one aspect of the promise, in which patients who don't receive medical care in a timely manner in Canada would be covered for treatment in the United States.
Postl, head of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, recently handed in his final report as federal adviser on wait times to Health Minister Tony Clement, who expressed impatience last month about what he termed inexplicable "reticence" by some provinces about the guarantee."The concern is that if you move too fast into the area of guarantees before you can actually deliver them, you end up doing more to undermine public confidence instead of improving public confidence," Postl said.See the full content of this document
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Postl Warns Wait-Time Cut May Backfire
By Juliet O'Neill
OTTAWA -- The country's top expert on wait times is warning the minority Conservative government's promi...See the full content of this document
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