Better health-care comes through better management practices: Higgs – New Brunswick [Video]

New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative leader says his government will bring “business acumen to deliver health care” if it’s re-elected.

Speaking at an event organized by the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce and the University of New Brunswick, Blaine Higgs said on Monday his government is looking to deliver better health-care services “through better management practices,” rather than spending more tax dollars.

The Liberals, meanwhile, have promised to create 30 community clinics across the province at a cost of cost $115.2 million over four years.

The Greens say they will invest $380 million annually to fix the primary health-care system.

Higgs told the audience in Fredericton that any party that “flippantly” says they can fix health care by spending money, “it’s just not going …