Under the Constitution, health care is a provincial jurisdiction.  Harper favoured limiting federal involvement to the prescribed fiscal transfers to the provinces.

The provinces have, to varying degrees, "looked the other way" on some clinics because there is a real demand for their services.  Rather than exploring how this might best be legitimized and managed, Philpott wants to ensure everyone gets the same inadequate service....the tyranny of the lowest common denominator.

It beggars the mind how the Liberals will legalize pot, explore the Portuguese model of legalizing opioids without prescription, yet insist that paying a premium to get required medical treatment sooner is illegal and must be stopped.  

If that's their idea of leadership on the health care file, I'd just rather they make the fiscal transfers and leave programming up to the provinces.