"Is a two-tiered healthcare system creeping its way into Canada? Despite the fact that the Canada Health Act says healthcare must be publicly delivered without user fees or extra billing, there are significant efforts underway to privatize healthcare across the country. The biggest example of this privatization is in-delivery, outsourcing publicly funded care to private clinics and companies. Aside from the opportunity for companies to profit, is this system actually better for patients? New research out of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows privatized healthcare is actually linked to worse health outcomes. A new comparison across 25 countries found that places with more for-profit healthcare, both in funding and in delivery, tended to have higher mortality rates and lower life expectancy than countries with predominantly public healthcare systems. We only need to look to our neighbours to the south for confirmation. The number one reason for individual bankruptcy in America? Health care."