Private Health Care Clinics to Open in Toronto, Ottawa, London, Ont. By Summer
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 15:00 CST
TORONTO (CP) - By the time summer rolls around, patients in Toronto, Ottawa and London, Ont. could be able to pay for private health-care.
For a $1,200 enrolment fee and $2,300 a year, Copeman Healthcare wants to offer treatment in the cardiology, urology, orthopedics, neurology, oncology, gynecology, sports injury and pain management.
Copeman Healthcare says it will open three clinics this summer and offer a so-called "100 per cent health-care experience."
It says it is acting within the guidelines of the Canada Health Act and expects to get the blessing of the premier and ministers of health and health promotion.
But critics say the clinics will take away resources from public health-care and lure doctors away from the public system.
The NDP says allowing the plan to go ahead would be a broken promise by Premier Dalton McGuinty, since he said he would end the creeping privatization of health care.
Source: Canadian Press
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