{
  "id": 12622586,
  "title": "Opinion: What if ER docs joined the province's private-pay plan?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/opinion-what-if-er-docs-joined-the-provinces-private-pay-plan",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-07T12:06:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Calgary Herald",
    "slug": "calgary-herald",
    "url": "https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-what-if-er-docs-joined-the-provinces-private-pay-plan"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I’ll admit I have been strongly opposed to the Alberta government’s dual-billing legislation: the Canadian experiment where anesthesiologists are encouraged to shrink the public health-care queue by the ingenious method of spending less time in it. Apparently, the government’s calculations show that if we let specialists desert public hospitals, enticed by the ability to bill […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}