PETERS- It’s been a great week for the public health system in Canada (really)
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IT’S BEEN A GREAT WEEK for the public health system in Canada. No, really.
On Thursday, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled against a Vancouver clinic trying to offer wealthy patients a fast track to health care.
Justice John Steeves found Dr. Brian Day’s clinic offering patients a chance to pay to skip the lines would, in fact, result in damage to the universal healthcare system.
Defenders of the Canadian system said Day’s philosophy flew in the face of the values the Canadian system was founded upon.
On the same day, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix was asked why Canada has done so well compared to the United States in suppressing the spread of COVID-19.
Dix responded that Canada’s public healthcare system plays a big part in that.
James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.
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