Government health care started in Canada in the late sixties. Initially, doctors could do both private and public patients. Then, they had to chose between the two. In 1984, it became ILLEGAL for a doctor to bill any patient privately. This is the road you are on. It is the road to hell!
The potential problem with physician owned facilities is that health care is an area where the suppliers can create their own demand — in this case by finding reasons to put patients in their hospitals. The Wall Street Journal has conducted a couple of analyses recently, one involving back surgeries, the other I don’t remember, that suggest indeed this does happen and entails considerable cost.
When this happens it is not deserving of a knee-jerk defense as free enterprise. Given the role of third-party payers — insurance and gov’t — we are all paying for whatever abuse occurs. Sorry, but I’m not willing to pay a share of that.