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Medicare: It's got us covered.

 

 

 

 

In January 2009, a group of for-profit clinics led by Dr. Brian Day launched a lawsuit against the B.C. provincial government. 

They are seeking to have the courts strike down our provincial health care legislation, the Medical Protection Act, to allow US-style private insurance companies access to the "health care market" in British Columbia.  Dr. Brian Day has also attempted to stop the provincial government from auditing his clinics.  At least thirty complaints have been filed by patients in B.C. claiming that Dr. Day has engaged in unlawful extra-billing by requesting payment from both the patient and the provincial government.

The BC Health Coalition, along with the Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and individual patients have succesfully applied for intervener status in the case. As the defenders of Medicare, we are seeking to make sure the citizen of British Columbia have the strongest voice possible at the table.

Read the legal documents filed by the private clinics and the  provincial government:

Read the legal documents filed by our intervenor coalition that includes the BC Health Coalition ("British Columbia Friends of Medicare Society"), Canadian Doctors for Medicare, a physician and two patients: