Circumventing the Canadian Health System - Part 2
An official from the Laval clinic said no one was available to answer questions. The patient in question, Jean Pa-quite, was furious. We are already paying for this with our taxes, ‘That’s what’s frustrating."
Ifs not the only controversial practice going on. Private clinics are pushing the boundaries in other ways. Physimed, are telling patients they have public-system family doctors accepting new patients — a rarity .They are trying to find ways to make a profit wherever they can here. The catch? Patients must first pay for a physical that involved a multiplicity of tests — blood, bone density, x-ray and the like. The cost at Physimed, according to a fiscal who answered the phone, was $460.
You force the patient to pay to have access to services that are insured. "Strictly speaking, having to pay for insured services is prohibited by the province's health insurance act According to a professor of epidemiologist at McGill University, these types of practices are more than "growing pains" of the private sector and "might just be the tip of the iceberg. She knows of another "third payer*' case like the one in Laval, involving an orthopedic surgeon in the public system.
Bending the law to push it as far as it can go, a contributor to a 2009 French-language book on the private sector in health care. They are trying to find ways to make a profit wherever they can."
Quebec is believed to have the most private health facilities of any province. Partnerships are also developing between these clinics and public institutions, such as hospitals, to reduce surgery waiting lists, for example. Pushing the boundaries of the law will probably continue as patients recognize the public system's faults. The average person would probably pay to see a private doctor if they have chest pain and can't see their own physician for months,"even if that person generally thinks that people should have free access to medicare. 'It’s a contradiction."
Ifs not the only controversial practice going on. Private clinics are pushing the boundaries in other ways. Physimed, are telling patients they have public-system family doctors accepting new patients — a rarity .They are trying to find ways to make a profit wherever they can here. The catch? Patients must first pay for a physical that involved a multiplicity of tests — blood, bone density, x-ray and the like. The cost at Physimed, according to a fiscal who answered the phone, was $460.
You force the patient to pay to have access to services that are insured. "Strictly speaking, having to pay for insured services is prohibited by the province's health insurance act According to a professor of epidemiologist at McGill University, these types of practices are more than "growing pains" of the private sector and "might just be the tip of the iceberg. She knows of another "third payer*' case like the one in Laval, involving an orthopedic surgeon in the public system.
Bending the law to push it as far as it can go, a contributor to a 2009 French-language book on the private sector in health care. They are trying to find ways to make a profit wherever they can."
Quebec is believed to have the most private health facilities of any province. Partnerships are also developing between these clinics and public institutions, such as hospitals, to reduce surgery waiting lists, for example. Pushing the boundaries of the law will probably continue as patients recognize the public system's faults. The average person would probably pay to see a private doctor if they have chest pain and can't see their own physician for months,"even if that person generally thinks that people should have free access to medicare. 'It’s a contradiction."
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