After losing his legal battle to ensure right to private health care in B.C., Dr. Brian Day says it’s now up to legislators to bring change.
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) announced it would not hear the case brought forward by the Vancouver surgeon and patient plaintiffs who had suffered due to long wait lists in the publicly funded system.
Day’s legal challenge, first launched in 2009, argued that B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act (MPA) was unconstitutional to bar doctors from billing the provincial government for services given under the public system while also earning income from private clinics. He also contested its ban prohibiting doctors from billing patients or their insurance companies for services already covered under the public system….