Dr. Brian Day of Vancouver fought for 14 years through the court system to expand private health care options in British Columbia, only to ultimately fail at the Supreme Court of Canada.
But what Day championed is now on the cusp of achieving partial success in Alberta, where the provincial government recently put forward a proposal to allow surgeons to perform privately paid elective surgeries outside their regular hours in the public system.
“It’s certainly a good start. It needs another step. That is to legalize private insurance coverage for all services,” Day told The Epoch Times.
“Canada is unique on the planet Earth in making such insurance illegal. Extended health insurers [private companies] already cover 70 percent of Canadians for such essential services as medications, ambulances, physio, and dentistry etc. They should be able to extend that coverage to so-called ‘medically necessary’ services.”…