winnipegsun.com - Manitoba - NDP all alone on punishing private MRIs

More on the right to provide basic services outside of the health monopoly. QJ

winnipegsun.com - Manitoba - NDP all alone on punishing private MRIs: "Not violating the act
In the late 1990s, when Ottawa fined provinces for allowing private clinics to charge facility fees, they fined all provinces at the same time, including Manitoba.
And all provinces fell in line and ended the practice. Not the case with MRIs and other diagnostic tests.
For starters, the Canada Health Act says diagnostic testing, unless it's provided in a hospital, is not an insured service. Which means clinics can charge for them and they're not violating the act.
Manitoba's own regulations under the Health Services Act, Sec. 17, says the same thing. The service is not insured 'unless provided in a hospital as an in-patient or out-patient service.'
So both laws say it's OK. And the feds are not going to act on it, despite their verbal warnings over the past few years. "