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Today, the B.C. Court of Appeals rules on a case attempting to establish private healthcare as a constitutional right when when wait times are too long. If it succeeds, get ready for ... /2

Part 1 of U.S. private healthcare prices:
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2/ ... the kind of healthcare that bankrupts tens of thousands of Americans each year. The public system will be decimated. Finding a family doctor will even more difficult than it already is.

Part 2 of U.S. private healthcare prices:
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(cont.) fee schedules to stop a mass exodus of doctors from provincial systems

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