After the Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a legal challenge over private medical care, where does that leave the legal protection of public health care?
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A gurney sits in a hospital corridor. Credit: Miguel Ausejo / Unsplash
In early April, the Supreme Court of Canada decided not to hear the appeal of Cambie Surgeries Corporation and its president, Dr. Brian Day, from a decision of the B.C. Court of Appeal. The B.C. Appeal Court upheld the constitutionality of certain provisions of B.C.’s medicare legislation. These include provisions that prohibit extra-billing, user charges, doctors from practising inside and outside the publicly funded health-care system, and private health insurance, and that cap the fees of physicians who opt out of the public system.
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