More physicians might reduce extra billing Re: “Medical commission files injunction against Telus Health patient fee,” Dec. 2.
Private care, extra billing or any form of patient-visit charge or user fee may appear to be helping by taking the load off the public health-care system, but once entrenched it creates a two-tier system and an illusion that the health-care system is functioning well.
However, it is unfortunate that in the same medical profession, we have a breed of physicians, albeit small, who are exploiting the present health crisis and asking patients to pay extra for the services beyond the payment thresholds on which the majority of physicians have agreed to work. Fast forward to COVID. Dr. Bonnie Henry’s “logic” from the beginning was never “we don’t want you to get sick and die”; it was “we don’t want you to overwhelm the capacity of the health-care system.”
If we had built too many long-term beds initially, they could accommodate sub-acute care from the hospitals, freeing up hospital beds and, possibly, surgeries. But now we have long-term patients taking up hospital beds because there is no place for them to go.Our mail certainly gets to travel When “penny postage” was introduced in Britain in 1840, a “stamp” received by a sender and applied to a letter, represented a receipt for the “tax” paid to deliver a piece of mail.
The sack is then loaded on another truck and driven back out the Saanich Peninsula to the airport and loaded onto a plane. As the principal of an alternative school, I worked with students whose challenges included sexual abuse, drug addiction, homelessness and violence. Many of these students had experienced interactions with the police, or the criminal justice system that was less than positive.
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