Commentary
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public system.
He argued that these prolonged waits violate a patient’s constitutional right to life, liberty, and security of the person.
This seems like a reasonable argument for two reasons.
First, Canadians can pay for plastic surgery, fertility treatments, and eye surgeries, as well as treatments at dermatology, vein, and foot clinics, among others.
Likewise, it makes sense that if Canadians can pay to look good, they can also pay to get relief from pain and sickness….