The lie of socialized health care continues:
There were private-clinic customers pushed to the front of the line for colon-cancer screening, nurses who hoarded pandemic-flu vaccine for their own family members and VIPs given, well, VIP treatment in hospital.
An ongoing Alberta public inquiry is offering an unprecedented glimpse at a side of health care usually kept under close wraps: Patients whose influence, fame or money earns them special treatment in an over-taxed system.
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