Kevin Falcon, the Health Services Minister of British Colombia, has been reportedly intending to turn B. C. into a health-care destination for the foreign patients who are willing and can afford to spend more. This can probably be a trick to elevate the revenue for the system, collected by premiums, by persuading the foreign patients for medical procedures especially surgeries.

On Tuesday, Falcon stated that he is in talks about the scheme of erecting new hospitals as “centers of health care excellence in B. C.” for out-of-province patients, and said he's been in discussions with medical professionals.

Elaborating on the scheme, Falcon said, “We know that every year several hundred thousand Americans travel outside of America and spend billions of dollars on their health care. Why can’t we take the best surgeons that we have and they are some of the best in the world some of the best facilities we’ve got, and see whether there’s a possibility we can generate revenues for the benefit of British Columbians”.

The plan was termed as “bad” B. C. by the Health Critic of New Democratic Party Adrian Dix said, “What he’s talking about is organized queue jumping — organized two-tier health care. Proposal is unfair to British Columbians who pay for and support health care with their tax dollars. The minister is ideologically indisposed to supporting public health care even though that is his personal obligation”.