When I catch up with LaGrange in late August, she is not in campaign mode. She is in implementation mode. Legislation passed last December created a new category of “flexibly participating” physicians, mainly surgeons. Starting this fall they can do publicly funded work and, on a case-by-case basis, privately paid elective procedures: hip and knee replacements, cataracts, hernia repair, selected ENT, gynecology, dermatology and plastic surgery. Emergency care, cancer treatment and family practice stay fully public.
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