Opinion: Supreme Court\u0027s decision in health\u002Dcare case is a win for lack of accountability in the public sector
Day scoffed: “The minister is from Quebec where citizens enjoy these rights and a federal employee who also enjoys the right to go to a private clinic. British Columbians don’t. Our clinic is right now treating residents of other provinces, but B.C. residents are prohibited.
“It sends a strong message that our nation’s highest court supports the principles of universal health care where access to medical care is determined by a patient’s needs, not their ability to pay their way to the front of the line,” Dix opined. Yet it was a previous NDP administration that allowed more than a score of private clinics such as Cambie to open in the 1990s.
Prescription drugs, dentistry, and physiotherapy are outside the Medical Services Plan and can be covered by private insurance, he added.
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