NAPE President Jerry Earle calls contracts with private companies to deliver health care services a “slippery slope.”

Earle was responding to the $22 million dollar two-year agreement announced this week with US-based Teledoc to deliver virtual health care services to those not attached to a family doctor.

NAPE represents a large number of people working in the health care sector.

Earle calls the agreement “privatization creep.”

“We should not have a company—this one based in the United States—making a profit on the illness and medical conditions of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador.”