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With long-term care COVID-19 cases and deaths accounting for a dramatic proportion of Canada’s pandemic numbers, some are calling for an end to for-profit long-term care, but at least one doctor says the entire system is underfunded.
Dr. Bert Kelly supports the contracting out of day surgeries to private clinics.
The local doctor admits such a statement may seem contradictory to his firm belief in public health care. But his pragmatic side tells him there has to be a way to provide health care without it costing more and more every year.
“I’m an absolute believer in the need for a public education system and a public health care system. I don’t see how any civilized society can not have that,” he said.
“On the other hand, we see people in Canada paying huge taxes for education and health care and it seems to be they don’t get what they pay for.”
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 18
A lawsuit filed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association seeks to change New Brunswick law so that surgical abortions at Clinic 554 in Fredericton can be funded by medicare. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
A group suing the New Brunswick government in an effort to get it to fund abortions in private clinics is pointing to a similar restriction in Prince Edward Island, calling P.E.I. s law discriminatory and one that has no place on the books.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed its constitutional challenge earlier this month in Court of Queen s Bench in Fredericton.
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