In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of B.C. has called bullshit on right-wingers who say they’re only concern about patient interests when they campaign for more private health care. The courts have sided with the public, not the profiteers! #AbLeg bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/20/…
The purpose of restrictions on private health “is to preserve and ensure the sustainability of a universal public healthcare system that ensures access to necessary medical care is based on need and not on an individual’s ability to pay,” says the Court. And it’s constitutional!
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Jason Kenney! Score one for the good guys!
Private care “would reduce the capacity of the public system..., increase the public system’s costs, create perverse incentives for physicians, ... undermine political support for the public system, and exacerbate inequity in access to medically necessary care.”
“...the expert evidence (including from the plaintiffs’ experts) is that duplicative private healthcare would not decrease wait times in the public system and there is expert evidence that wait times would actually increase”
Here a very good breakdown of the decision...
https://twitter.com/lorian_h/status/1304138474040127490
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