The British Columbia Court of Appeal has unanimously upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a Vancouver surgeon’s challenge of the Medicare Protection Act, saying bans on extra billing and private insurance do not violate the Charter. The court did find the lower-court judge erred in his analysis of the right to life and says in…
BC Court of Appeal Rejects Private Health Care, Says Charter Violation Can Be Overruled
The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a Vancouver surgeon who challenged that a lower court erred in judgement in rejecting his claim that patients have the charter right to pay for private medical care when wait times in the public system are too long. In a ruling on July 15, Chief…
William Brooks: A Canadian Doctor Examines the Corpse of Socialized Medicine
Commentary For centuries health care was, for the most part, privately delivered by independent physicians. But during the West’s 20th-century collectivist moment, medical care became a common priority for reform by liberal and socialist governments. One of the first models for modern health-care systems dates back to Otto von Bismarck’s compulsory health insurance, introduced in…
[Premiering 6/24 at 1PM ET] 87% of Clinical Trial Data Hidden from Medical Journals; Fmr FDA Director: Not Our Job to Correct Faulty Drug Data in Articles
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. John Abramson, author of “Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine” and “Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It,” to discuss the current political climate as it relates to the health care industry. Dr. Abramson shares his insights gained…
COVID Exposed the Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex
June 20, 2022
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Commentary In college, I took a Latin American Politics and Development class. When discussing Latin American medical care, Professor Eldon Kenworthy presented a deeply countercultural idea. Echoing a journal article by the scholar, Robert Ayres, Kenworthy maintained that building hospitals there costs lives. If, instead of erecting, equipping, and staffing gleaming medical centers, this same…
California Scheming: The Progressive Leadership’s New Plan to Impose High-Cost, Low-Quality Medical Care
June 18, 2022
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Commentary With a budget surplus of more than $200 million, the California legislature is thinking big, really big, and that means one thing: single-payer government health care, which recently was introduced as AB 1400. Notes the Los Angeles Times: “This measure … would completely change health care coverage for Californians. Insurance companies would be shoved aside….
Exclusion of Unvaccinated BC Health Staff Hurting Patient Care, Says Surgeon Who Filed Legal Petition
A surgeon who filed a petition requesting a judicial review over the exclusion of B.C. health-care workers who are unvaccinated for COVID-19 says their absence hurts patients in the province. Dr. York Hsiang and two other plaintiffs filed their petition in the B.C. Supreme Court on June 10 asking that a 2021 public health order…
Utah Sheriff Investigating Ritual Abuse and Cannibalism; Vaccine ‘High Viral Loads’ Causing Deaths
Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith announced an investigation into what he described as “a child sex abuse ring that operated in Utah, Juab, and Sanpete counties between 1990 and 2010,” under which Utah County Attorney David Leavitt and his wife Chelom Leavitt had been previously accused. Leavitt denied the allegations, saying they were politically motivated,…
Shrinking Ratio of Canadian Workers to Seniors Will Increasingly Strain Government Finances, Study Finds
As the ratio of working Canadians to seniors continues to shrink, it will strain government spending earmarked for older folks in the years ahead due to fewer working taxpayers, a new study finds. “Workers pay the bulk of taxes, which governments need to fund important services, including health care and income transfers to seniors,” said…
Glaring Problems in Our Health Care System
The number of COVID deaths in the United States dwarfs that of any other country. According to Statista.com, as of April 11, well over 1 million Americans have died. The United States is a large country, so a high number of deaths might be expected. But the U.S. also ignominiously ranks in the top 10…
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