B.C. Conservatives pitch health-care changes, more private clinics

VANCOUVER — The leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia says as premier his government would pay to send people outside the province for health care and expand private clinics in an effort to fix a system “in crisis.”
John Rustad acknowledges that if his party were to form government in October the plan would cause the provincial budget to “spike,” but says in the long-term it will bring down per-capita health-care spending.
Rustad’s promises, thr