Health for Sale

B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he has a plan to market health-care services to rich, offshore patients similar to the way the province sells higher education to foreign students.

The concept of using health tourism as a means to generate revenue for B.C.'s health-care system deserves more study, Falcon said Tuesday.

He said he's been in discussions with medical professionals about opening centres of health excellence in British Columbia that offer medical treatment to foreign patients willing to pay extra.