By John Have and Robert L. Brown benefits, Canada healthcare system, Health care costs, Health care costs and spending, private healthcare, private healthcare costs, publicly funded healthcare system, savings
Imagine having your private health insurance — dental, vision, prescription drug, life, travel and disability coverage — suddenly terminated by your employer at age 65 while you’re still working for them, and just when you may really need it.
By John Have and Robert L. Brown benefits, Canada healthcare system, Health care costs, Health care costs and spending, private healthcare, private healthcare costs, publicly funded healthcare system, savings
Last week, the media carried a story about a nine-year-old boy in New Brunswick who was denied private health coverage because of his weight (at 5 foot 2 inches and 135 pounds). His family were shocked – as were many reading the story – that a child could be denied private health coverage in Canada.
Canadians should modernize not privatize medicare
By Bryan Thomas and Colleen Flood Canada, Canada Health Act, Canada’s healthcare system, federal election, federal government, federal taxes, Patient-pay MRI clinics, private healthcare, Private MRI clinics Canada, public healthcare
National Medicare Week has just passed, buoyed with optimism as a fresh-faced government takes the reins in Ottawa — elected partly on a promise of renewed federal leadership on health care. Yet these “sunny ways” are overcast by recent developments at the provincial level that entrench and legitimize two-tier care. Saskatchewan has just enacted a licensing […]
BC doctors’ election represents crossroads for the future of medicine in Canada
By Vanessa Brcic and Ryan Meili British Columbia, Cambie Surgeries Corp. v. British Columbia, Day case, Private health care, private healthcare, provincial medical association, Public health spending, public healthcare
Normally provincial medical association elections are not national news. The one vote difference between first and second place in the race for president of the Doctors of BC – later declared a tie after a recount – might be enough to grab people’s attention.
By Colleen Flood and Kathleen O'Grady BC Medical Services Commission, BC Supreme Court, Cambie Surgeries, Cambie Surgeries Corp. v. British Columbia, Canada, Canada Health Act, Canada’s healthcare system, Day case, private healthcare, public healthcare, supreme court decision
A long-running dispute between Dr. Brian Day, the co-owner of Cambie Surgeries Corporation and the British Columbia government may finally be resolved in the BC Supreme Court this year — and the ruling could transform the Canadian health system from coast to coast.
By BC Medical Services Commission, BC Supreme Court, Cambie Surgeries, Cambie Surgeries Corp. v. British Columbia, Canada, Canada Health Act, Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian health care, Canadian healthcare system, Day case, Podcasts, private healthcare, public healthcare, supreme court decision
The BC Supreme Court will soon be ruling on a constitutional challenge that may very well change the face of health care in Canada.
