Ottawa warns current health transfers unsustainable

[cybercoma]

But the only doctors that can actually accept money for private care are doctors that accept no money from the public system.

Should I use your logic, like with your BC example above, and say that Nova Scotia has no ban on accepting money from different payers?

We have a single-payer mixed system. Private care is not banned. In most provinces doctors just aren't allowed to double-dip. The reason being that many were abusing it. They were charging patietns for care then charging the government. This was the easiest way to regulate it. That doesn't mean, however, as the OP said that "private care is banned." It's not. In fact, most of the care you get with your public insurance card is private.

[Jerry J. Fortin]

Should I use your logic, like with your BC example above, and say that Nova Scotia has no ban on accepting money from different payers?

We have a single-payer mixed system. Private care is not banned. In most provinces doctors just aren't allowed to double-dip. The reason being that many were abusing it. They were charging patietns for care then charging the government. This was the easiest way to regulate it. That doesn't mean, however, as the OP said that "private care is banned." It's not. In fact, most of the care you get with your public insurance card is private.

The profit motive is the killer issue.