Many other countries with universal health insurance allow so\u002Dcalled duplicate insurance to ease pressure on the public system
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.To this are added restrictions on billing, and the banning of mixed practice, making it difficult for a market to develop.procedures
following the Chaoulli decision. For all other procedures, the law formally prohibits duplicate insurance. Unsurprisingly, an insurance market has not developed just for total hip or knee replacement, or cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation. These procedures are too specific, too limited, for a critical mass of the population to choose to insure themselves.have not complicated things with exceptions, simply prohibiting the sale of such insurance completely.Article content
The result is that, for the vast majority of Canadians, the only treatment option is to languish on the waiting lists that have become characteristic of our provincial health-care systems.Beverley McLachlinFor 660,000 of our fellow Canadians, the inaccessibility of care is anything but theoretical. They live it every day as they wait for their operations. It’s a safe bet that many of them would choose to be treated in the private sector, if insurance lowered the financial barriers to doing so.
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