Zero Tier Health Care, Updated

Looks like someone took up my suggestion;

Southwest trying to hold on to health care
CLIMAX – People in the southwest corner of the province say they will pay for health care alone if they have to.
They are upset that hours of service at the Border Health Centre in Climax are going to be cut next month.
Nancy Kirk, mayor of Climax, says her area is home to oil and gas workers, as well as a large manufacturing plant. Kirk says accidents happen, and people need an emergency room around the clock.
“We’re not really asking for a lot. We know we’re a health centre. We know we don’t probably need a full-fledged acute care facility here. We need some solutions as they have done in other parts of the province where people are isolated. We need some the solution to have some of our emergency needs met beyond the eight-hour day.”
Kirk says a number of people in her area are willing to spend local tax dollars on extending the health centre’s hours. Kirk estimates keeping open the emergency room would cost up to $300,000 dollars a year.

Good for them.
If First Nations are going to be permitted to establish private, for profit MRI services in the city of Saskatoon, with three major hospitals in a 10 mile radius, any argument to deny rural residents the right to find their own solutions in a “remote” region without a hospital or emergency care at all is going to require a intellectual contortionist.
That person, of course, would be Premier Lorne Calvert.