{"id":15259089,"date":"2026-08-18T03:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/federal-health-minister-voices-concern-as-alberta-implements-dual-practice-health-care-model\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:33:24","slug":"federal-health-minister-voices-concern-as-alberta-implements-dual-practice-health-care-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/federal-health-minister-voices-concern-as-alberta-implements-dual-practice-health-care-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal health minister voices concern as Alberta implements dual-practice health-care model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/549c32fe-07aa-4f24-ba98-6a65657d7925,1787022504834\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C245%2C3991%2C2244%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29\" alt=\"Woman wearing white shirt. There is a crowd behind her.\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\"Health Minister Marjorie Michel rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 17, 2026.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Alberta\u2019s dual-practice health-care model set to roll out in September, Canada\u2019s health minister is speaking out about why the policy troubles her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/federal-health-minister-alberta-dual-practice-health-care-model-9.7310498?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News Edmonton \u2013 CBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Alberta\u2019s dual-practice health-care model set to roll out in September, Canada\u2019s health minister is speaking out about why the policy troubles her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15259091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15259089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edmonton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-300x169.avif",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-510x349.avif",510,349,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-160x160.avif",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-24x24.avif",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-48x48.avif",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-96x96.avif",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-150x150.avif",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15259089-default-300x300.avif",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Edmonton<\/a>","tag_info":"Edmonton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15259089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15259090,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259089\/revisions\/15259090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15259091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15259089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15259089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15259089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}