Changes In Health Care?

[Annie]

I don't know what impact this would have on our Canadian friends, but the NYT thought enough to put it in 'World Headlines':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/international/americas/10canada.html?th&emc=th

June 10, 2005
In Blow to Canada's Health System, Quebec Law Is Voided
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

TORONTO, June 9 - The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Quebec law banning private medical insurance in a decision that represents an acute blow to the publicly financed national health care system.

The high court stopped short of striking down the constitutionality of the country's vaunted health care system nationwide, but specialists across the legal spectrum said they expected the decision to lead to sweeping changes in the Canadian health care system.

"The language of the ruling will encourage more and more lawsuits and those suits have a greater likelihood of success in light of this judgment," said Lorne Sossin, acting dean of the University of Toronto law school.

Patrick Monahan, dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto and a well-known critic of the national health care system, was even more emphatic about the import of the decision. "They are going to have to change the fundamental design of the system," he said. "They will have to build in an element of timely care or otherwise allow the development of a private medical system."

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[Said1]

I don't know what impact this would have on our Canadian friends, but the NYT thought enough to put it in 'World Headlines':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/international/americas/10canada.html?th&emc=th

I heard this this morning, and I think they were attempting to ban private insurance for items covered by the provincial plan - not 100% on that though. As far as Ontario goes, I've had private insurance in the past that did not cover items on the provincial plan. There are other exceptions to the rule, which I think I've mentioned before (re: my daughters ears). If you can get a referal from a gp to leave the province for specialized services that can be done with private insurance also. I can't speak for everyone, or every policy, just my experience with my insurance policy.

 

[Wolfe]

I say its about time Canadians pulled our collective heads from the sand and bring much needed change to the health system.

 

[Big Blue Machin]

That will take awhile. All the left-wing politicans are saying that medicare "can be saved". But it's obvious that Canada needs a mixed system, like Europe.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

That will take awhile. All the left-wing politicans are saying that medicare "can be saved". But it's obvious that Canada needs a mixed system, like Europe.

How is it so obvious?

 

[Big Blue Machin]

Just listen to the rhetoric of the politicans. Read the Romanow Health Care Report of 2001. They think medicare is still working, but it's hurting people more than its helping.