2026-06-26 from policyalternatives.ca

As Alberta moves to implement its two-tier health care system with Bill 11, policymakers and commentators are increasingly debating whether Canadian provinces should pursue more private-pay medicine in response to the long wait times, and other challenges, that patients currently face. This is not the best way forward.

Alberta’s experiment with two-tier health care—access to surgery based on wealth, not need—will worsen wait times and undermine the principles of Canadian medicare. 

And while our health care system is failing many Canadians, the solution is not to make it better for those who can pay while making it considerably worse for everyone else.  

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