Ian Mulgrew: Publicly funded surgeries at private clinics doubled in four years

The number of publicly funded surgeries at private clinics in B.C. have more than doubled in the last four years without significantly reducing lengthy wait times, the Medicare constitutional trial has heard.
A two-page briefing note with appendices prepared last fall for NDP Health Minister Adrian Dix indicated the public system relied on the private facilities to deal with lengthening surgical queues.
And the data appears to fly in the face of the NDP administration’s decision to clamp d