Private Clinics and the Threat to Public Medicare in Canada - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

And as clinics have gained an contraventions, governments at the provincial expanding foothold, they have grown more and federal level have failed to fulfil their aggressive, putting the right obligation to Canadians to uphold the principle that the provision of health care should be based for Canadians to access public health care on need not wealth. [...] Two legal actions of vast majority of hospital and physician services national and historic significance, one in Quebec are still provided under the public health system and one in British Columbia, will contribute to without charge and our system of public charting the future course of our country’s public medicare continues to serve millions of health care system. [...] In the last decade, the laws that prohibit the extra-billing and the contraventions of the Canada Health Act have charging of user-fees to patients. [...] egregious examples -- in provinces such as British They petitioned the Court in a bid to force the Columbia and Quebec -- patients have frequently federal Health Minister to fulfill her duty under found themselves confronted with an expensive the Canada Health Act to stop the extra-billing of array of charges for health care when they are patients. [...] Too often, governments have shirked their trauma of illness, the pain of surgery, responsibility to fund and organize public the slow decline to death are burdens hospitals to meet population need (and to ensure enough for the human being to bear that money goes to care).