Advocates on both sides of a legal debate over the future of public health care in Canada are offering opposing diagnoses on how to rejuvenate what many consider an overburdened medical system.
Jonathan Penner, a lawyer for the British Columbia government, told B.C. Supreme Court on Monday that a lawsuit proposing to revamp the rules around how medicare operates may undermine the principle of equal medical access for all, to the detriment of the majority of residents in the province.
Cambie Surgery Centre, a private clinic in Vancouver, is suing the B.C. government for using the Medicare Protection Act to prevent doctors from providing medically necessary treatment in both the public and private systems and to forbid private insurance for core medical services.
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