CMA Backs Alberta private medicare plan {Letter to the editor}
Harmful to back private health care
CMA backs parallel private health care
thestar.com, Aug. 17.I thought the motto of doctors was "do no harm." By throwing its weight behind private health care, the Canadian Medical Association is doing immeasurable harm to the majority of Canadians of average means who won't be able to buy their way to the front of the line or to afford private health insurance (even assuming they'll qualify for it).It takes a peculiar kind of "let-them-eat-cake" doublethink to characterize private health care as freedom of choice. The CMA simply can't reconcile its support for a private system with the principle that access to care should be based on need, not wealth — not unless, like the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland, they can believe six impossible things before breakfast.
Lydia Dotto, Peterborough, Ont.
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CMA backs parallel private health care
thestar.com, Aug. 17.I thought the motto of doctors was "do no harm." By throwing its weight behind private health care, the Canadian Medical Association is doing immeasurable harm to the majority of Canadians of average means who won't be able to buy their way to the front of the line or to afford private health insurance (even assuming they'll qualify for it).It takes a peculiar kind of "let-them-eat-cake" doublethink to characterize private health care as freedom of choice. The CMA simply can't reconcile its support for a private system with the principle that access to care should be based on need, not wealth — not unless, like the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland, they can believe six impossible things before breakfast.
Lydia Dotto, Peterborough, Ont.
Source
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