Imagine doctors working together to provide people with faster service than the hallowed public\u002Dhealth system does. Outrageous.
Now, one might have naïvely assumed that the scandal here was the public system’s failure to deliver timely treatment. Not at all; the problem is the fact that a “loophole” in the Canada Health Act generously allows patients to pay for private surgeries as long as it’s not done in their home province.
Dr. Robert Bell, a former Ontario deputy minister of health and a respected figure in health care policy, would like to see the loophole closed. Bell’s argument is that private surgery centres are “taking advantage” of the loophole. It’s not just Bell who thinks this way, of course. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that itin a case involving private surgery clinics in British Columbia. This was hailed as a victory for public health-care advocates, a group clearly more important than sick people.
These would be two characteristics that the Riverside clinic shares with most every doctor’s office in Ontario. Doctors would rarely run their business without incorporating and they aren’t working for nothing. The one difference is that an OHIP card does not entitle everyone to service from a family doctor, most of whom are not taking new patients. Anyone with a health card can use the orthopedic clinic, after the usual wait.
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