CARLA BECK'S TEAM INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO FORCE MOE GOVERNMENT TO DISCLOSE ALL PRIVATE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTS

Taxpayers Deserve To Know Whose Making Money Delivering Healthcare In Crumbling System
REGINA - As the Scott Moe government increasingly funnels record amounts of public money into for-profit healthcare, Carla Beck’s team is introducing legislation to ensure taxpayers aren’t being ripped off.

Today, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Health Minister Meara Conway introduced Bill 630, The Public Healthcare Transparency and Accountability Act. If passed, the legislation would force the Moe government to disclose the full details of all private healthcare contracts to ensure public dollars are delivering better patient outcomes – not just padding the bottom line of private shareholders, some of whom are out of province and donate heavily to the Sask. Party.

This bill comes on the heels of the government’s refusal to disclose details around the $20 million they are spending annually on contracts with EHN Canada, a for-profit, private equity-run, out-of-province company.

“Scott Moe is writing cheques to for-profit companies while our public healthcare system crumbles,” said Conway. “From hiring out-of-province contract nurses at double the cost, to sending breast cancer patients to Calgary at 10 times the price of local care, to the tens of millions funnelled into for-profit addictions at a time when Saskatchewan people have a harder time accessing treatment than anywhere else in Canada - the waste is staggering,” said Meara Conway.

Since forming government in 2007, the Sask. Party has steadily expanded privatization in all aspects of the health system with little transparency - from MRIs and CT scans to surgical procedures to laundry to laboratory services, addictions treatment and private staffing agencies. Hundreds of millions are flying out the door every year to private, for-profit companies.

The Failed Two-for-one MRI model

Years after the Sask. Party introduced its private-pay MRI model, the Provincial Auditor has flagged oversight and accountability problems and raised questions about whether Saskatchewan built a costly parallel private system instead of strengthening permanent public MRI capacity. The experiment has also resulted in more than $1 million in federal fines for violating the Federal Health Act.

Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative

A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives analysis found Saskatchewan’s biggest surgical wait-time improvements came from direct public-system reform and not privatization. Private surgical contracts failed to deliver lasting reductions and risked draining staff and resources from public hospitals. Since partnering with the province on these private contracts, Clearpoint and its subsidiaries have donated over $35,000 to the Sask Party and lobbied the government heavily over the years.

Contract/Travel Nurses

The cost of travel nurses has ballooned under the Moe government. Instead of investing in the training and hiring of local nurses, the Moe government has hired increasingly more contract nurses, costing more than twice that of a nurse employed by the Saskatchewan Health Authority.

Out-of-Province Mammograms

As of March 2026, media report claimed 831 Saskatchewan patients were sent to a private clinic in Calgary for breast cancer diagnostics.

“Every dollar Scott Moe spent to pad the profits of for-profit healthcare companies is a dollar taken away from a hospital in Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, Yorkton. It is another dollar that is not going to properly staff and pay frontline healthcare workers or build up the primary care system Saskatchewan people so desperately need” Conway added.

“If these private contracts were actually a ‘good deal’ for Saskatchewan – if the Premier actually had a good story to tell – Scott Moe shouldn’t have any problem letting the public see them. That’s what this legislation is intended to do.

“It really is time for change.”

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