A British Columbia doctor’s fight for private health care will be difficult and protracted, and it could pose a serious threat to Canada’s universal healthcare system, according to legal and medical experts.
Dr. Brian Day is challenging the province’s ban on the purchase of private insurance for medically necessary services that are already covered by the public system. His argument that the ban violates patients’ constitutional rights by forcing them to wait for months and even years for medical procedures will be heard at a trial that began Tuesday and is expected to last months.
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