We already have considerable "public-private synergy" in healthcare. The idea that this is a threat to universal access to healthcare is a boogeyman that you guys like to haul out at election time.
the waldo is hard-pressed to recognize anything you've described as potentially fitting the model of a private for profit health care clinic providing health services that physicians health practitioners are able to bill for their services. Your doctor's office example is simply a, per norm, private practice billing your B.C. government for insured services - billing that aligns with predetermined service fee schedules. Same with pharmacies handling vaccinations; per a predetermined fee schedule a pharmacy simply charges your government a set amount for each vaccination.
again, 2-tier is with respect to private clinics billing patients directly for services to a level exceeding government fee schedules - which doesn't... shouldn't happen. The threat to universal access is real; even as it stands today with these existing private clinics, medical professionals staffing these clinics have been removed from the public sphere. As I stated, these private clinics are able to maintain their viability by charging, effectively, membership fees... significant membership fees. And again, in actual implemented 2-tier, public standards deteriorate as more and more medical staff gravitate to the more lucrative private side. So yes, 2 standards of health care develop; one for people that can pay and one for people that can't.
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