Private Health Insurance Now In Quebec

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After the spring Supreme Court ruling I thought we would have to wait for 12 months in Quebec to be able to buy private health insurance. Not so...today in the mail I got a pamphlet from a private insurer telling me exactly how to buy it...and I may just do so.

Does anyone really think we will have one tier health care in five or six years?

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After the spring Supreme Court ruling I thought we would have to wait for 12 months in Quebec to be able to buy private health insurance.  Not so...today in the mail I got a pamphlet from a private insurer telling me exactly how to buy it...and I may just do so.

Does anyone really think we will have one tier health care in five or six years?

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We don't have one tier now, there has always been two-tier medicine in Canada. We have private gov't funded abortion clinics, Shouldice surgery in the GTA (Ontario) has been operating very successfully for years, to mention some.

I sure don't want U.S. style HMO medicare, which is the usual bogeyman trotted out by the naysaers, but I believe we should have a choice, we should be able to spend our money anyway we see fit.

I read somewhere recently that a group in Ontario are putting together a similar challenge to the SC, as was done in Quebec. Personally I won't be buying private insurance, but would sure like the option of buying an MRI scan for instance if I needed one in a hurry.

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After the spring Supreme Court ruling I thought we would have to wait for 12 months in Quebec to be able to buy private health insurance.  Not so...today in the mail I got a pamphlet from a private insurer telling me exactly how to buy it...and I may just do so.

Does anyone really think we will have one tier health care in five or six years?

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We don't have one tier now, there has always been two-tier medicine in Canada. We have private gov't funded abortion clinics, Shouldice surgery in the GTA (Ontario) has been operating very successfully for years, to mention some.

I sure don't want U.S. style HMO medicare, which is the usual bogeyman trotted out by the naysaers, but I believe we should have a choice, we should be able to spend our money anyway we see fit.

I read somewhere recently that a group in Ontario are putting together a similar challenge to the SC, as was done in Quebec. Personally I won't be buying private insurance, but would sure like the option of buying an MRI scan for instance if I needed one in a hurry.

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I agree. I guess my question is, will our politicians officially be denying this in 5-6 years.

[Dan]

After the spring Supreme Court ruling I thought we would have to wait for 12 months in Quebec to be able to buy private health insurance.  Not so...today in the mail I got a pamphlet from a private insurer telling me exactly how to buy it...and I may just do so.

Does anyone really think we will have one tier health care in five or six years?

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So much for Paul Martin as the Messiah of Medicare

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After the spring Supreme Court ruling I thought we would have to wait for 12 months in Quebec to be able to buy private health insurance.  Not so...today in the mail I got a pamphlet from a private insurer telling me exactly how to buy it...and I may just do so.

Does anyone really think we will have one tier health care in five or six years?

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So much for Paul Martin as the Messiah of Medicare

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The system has been dead for years. Really, if there are any NDP or idealist Liberals in this post I dare them to say we will have government denying us full two-tier healthcare in 3-4 years.