Still more from the Montreal Gazette’s Aaron Derfel, who has apparently been digging up lots of successful private enterprise in Canada’s socialist health care system which supposedly forbids, by law, any of this.
Naturally I support these enterprises 100%. I’m pretty sure if Liberal Minister of Gay Marriage Irwin Cotler looked hard enough, and vetted it through the Supreme Court division of the Liberal Party, he’d find that these doctors and entrepreneurs have every right, under the Charter, to do what they’re doing. These rights would “flow from” the Charter, to use his vernacular. Not in the medical sense. No, money is “flowing from” our socialist system right now, and that should be addressed by good entrepreneurs like the ones described in this story.
Emergency clinic plans to add MD
Nearly 500 patients pay out of pocket
AARON DERFEL
The GazetteBusiness is going so well at Canada’s first private emergency clinic that its Montreal owners have decided to hire a new doctor who will opt out of medicare to specialize in women’s and children’s health.
The MD Plus Medical Clinic on Beaumont Ave. opened in late October, reigniting the debate over two-tier health care. To date, nearly 500 patients have paid out of pocket for procedures otherwise covered under medicare – from checkups to emergencies like fixing a broken arm or treating chest pain.
“We will probably add a new waiting room especially for children,” the clinic’s chairperson, Dr. Luc Bessette, told The Gazette. “The demand for our services is more than we expected. We didn’t foresee adding a fourth physician at this time of the year. We’re happy to see that a lot of people who came here are coming again. They’ve talked to their friends and families.”
Bessette and his colleagues – Alain Chamoun and Christian Hobden – had all worked in some of Quebec’s busiest emergency rooms. Fed up with the stressful conditions of ERs and government restrictions, they pulled out of medicare – giving them the right to bill patients.
Their clinic is not a typical family doctor’s office. It has equipment like an EKG machine to measure heart rhythms.
If the need arises, the doctors can send patients down the hall to a private diagnostic clinic, Radiologie Rene Laennec, for an MRI scan at a cost of $800. […]
Of course socialist meathead Jack Layton of the NDP has a lunatic’s take on it:
Not everyone is convinced that MD Plus is a good thing. New Democratic leader Jack Layton called on Ottawa last September to block the clinic from opening, charging that such enterprises erode the public system.
According to Jack Layton and most on the liberal-left, citizens don’t have the right, under our Charter, to open a pro-health business in this nation. But private abortion clinics are perfectly fine because all they do is to “erode” the lives of tiny humans, which are then summarily thrown into the garbage. Abortion clinics don’t “erode” the sacred (get it?) “public system” which is the most important thing. Got it?
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