The federal government is getting what it deserves. It forced its way into an area of provincial responsibility by bribery - follow our rules or you don't get money. And for decades feds of  all colours have shown it does not work. 

The minister says " help increase access to care for seniors." However seniors are one of the wealthier groups. In short any access which is based on age has that fault - many will have enough to pay their own way.  So to quote again "bad policy and bad medicine". 

Now much has been said about private sector health care USING ONE EXAMPLE, the US. That is real nonsense to base a decision on ONE example. 

There are literally thousand of examples of the private sector providing virtually everything that we need and use. How dare government ignore all that evidence?

The fact  that private health care is scorned shows the power of propaganda. Nothing to do with reality. Nothing. Private health care with Guaranteed Annual income  is an answer.