Provincial Health Minister Ted
Flemming says he has taken the politics out of healthcare
decisionmaking.
He says it's up to the Anglophone
and Francophone Health Authorities to decide what their lists of priorities
should be. Flemming says those priorities can be switched around depending on
circumstances and points to the breakdown of a mammography machine at an unnamed
hospital as an example.
Flemming maintains decisions in
health are being made for clinical reasons and not because they might benefit
M-L-A's on the government side get re-elected.